Venezuela is in complete chaos now, corrupt, crime ridden, people are starving and can't get basic services, on the brink of civil war. How is that socialism/communism/marxism working out Sean, maybe Penn should shut up about pushing the US to be more like Venezuela because he clearly does not know what he is talking about. Of course rich Hollywood hypocrite celebs will be just fine with a socialist gov., it is everyone else that suffers.

"Sean Penn's flirts with totalitarian governments"
Flirtation? Really?! Wrong choice of words. He skipped the flirting and courtship stage and jumped in bed and proposed without even meeting the family..

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Sean Penn is way too left-wing and guess what Sean's father Leo was a Communist who was blacklisted from Hollywood during McCarthyism. Sean I believe is also pals with Castro. Director Oliver Stone is also another nut ball like Penn. Oliver is good friends with the monster Castro Fidel.
P.S. Sean said that journalists who call Hugo Chavez a dictator should be jailed. This is nuts. Sean is showing his true dictator colors. This is exactly what a dictator does they jail people who criticize them.

I would have to disagree, trash can be recycled and used again, Sean Penn is a useless tool who is too stupid to realize the evil he's accomplice to, a useful idiot surpassed only by Denis Rodman.
Happiness is a belt-fed weapon.

Sean Penn is trash.

Chavez was elected.
So was Castro after he took over, Cuba would have show elections. I'll bet you loved him too. Even though he had his enemies arrested on false pretenses, would have them systematically tortured and executed. The Cubans he sent to Florida from Mariel for the most part had violent criminal histories. Thousands of Cubans have stories about him and his brother's atrocities. Yet Penn thinks they are the best people on Earth when they are anything but.
"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming".

It's hilarious that when he did his five days in jail (trying to show the world how tough he was) he paid $80 a night to be in a private facility.
He did 30 days in jail not five and he was across from serial killer Richard Ram2000irez. Was Richard Ramirez paying $80 a night to be in protective custody too. If you're going to talk sh!t at least be accurate.
Now we can handle this like gentleman or we can get into some old gangster sh*t

Penn is a little punk that just wants attention. It's hilarious that when he did his five days in jail (trying to show the world how tough he was) he paid $80 a night to be in a private facility. The little puss knew he wouldn't last a minute with real bad boys.

Chavez was elected? Let's see, I'll torture, flay and kill slowly your family or you will vote for me is not an election nor an independent vote of any kind. Surely you nave people jest. And to equate these fascist dictators with the U.S. is to simply reveal what unbelievably ignorant, insipid, empty fools that you are. That there are people out there that think these things is a sad reminder of who inhabits the world now.

Chavez was elected by himself, through and through coercion. And his finger-selected-successor stole the elections. So, if penn supports this illegitimate regime from such a public platform as he enjoys, then I'll be one boycotting his work. He does not deserve success if he is to support the oppressors of my country.

Chavez was elected.

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You are fascist

Sean Penn has the right to believe in and support what causes he wants, ironically that's something he wouldn't be afforded in the countries he seems so fond of. I have deliberately boycotted films purely because he has been in them, I know the old adage says about the art and the artist but I really don't think I'm the only one doing this and hope that it sends a small message to the studios that Sean Penn will make your film lose money. It's unlikely, I know that.
I would like to think that a proper minded person is able to see both sides of an argument, it seems bizarre to me that Sean hasn't openly spoken to those struggling against the bolivarian regimes in south america, to those against the leaders of Iran fighting2000 from within the country, to the people who actually live on the Falkland Islands who just want to be left alone to live in peace away from the harassment of Argentina.
For one who comes across as an apparently intelligent individual, he seems to have an amazing capacity for stupidity.

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Sean Penn is an idiot.

Yes he did. That was 14 years ago. A lot of water under the bridge since then. During that period, he has squandered some $1.3 TRILLION without diminishing poverty or improving health and education or the standard of living in any way. The country's infrastructure is collapsing and the few vestiges of democracy disappearing through gradual encroachment of a totalitarian regime he now heads.

I can't say he won the other elections legitimately, but the first election he did win that democratically.

You will have to take that up with the US government and/or the Latin American governments and dictatorships that connived with them to exploit the land and its people. That does not exempt your idol Penn from being yet another victim of Chavez' wily and deceitful ways.
Governments, just as people, are invariably flawed and also have certain virtues. Your comments about the Americans (and I hope you are referring to the U.S. Go5b4vernment, not the American people) contain a grain of truth, but the same can be said of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Macedonians, Persians, etc. as well as their modern Spanish, British, French, Italian, German and Belgian counterparts. Your comment really adds very little to a self-evident truth.

Fact remains that the americans have economically damaged south america for years.

You obviously do not have the slightest clue as to how Chavez "won" these elections. Imagine that next December's elections were held in the US and Obama held sway over the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's Office, Congress, the Electoral College and used your tax dollars on lavish campaign advertising. Imagine if Obama could force all networks to broadcast all of his speeches and public appearances while forcing those same networks to even mention Romney's campaign. Lastly, imagine over 1.5 million Americans being threatened to vote for Obama or having their businesses confiscated, their relatives imprisoned or the promise of free housing coerced by such measures. Who do you think would win the US elections? Think again, or better still, read more.

Chavez was elected, while his country was frequently banged by CIA and the United States for decades.
Get over your capitalistic a$s.