Venezuelan actress Maria Conchita Alonso is best known for her work
in '80s films like "Moscow on the Hudson" and "The Running Man."
Today, she's a fierce critic of current Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, and
she isn't too happy about the similarities she sees between Chavez's government and a potential second term for
Barack Obama.
STEVE
MALZBERG: ....Again, Hollywood, your industry embraces Obama, has
fundraisers in their homes for Obama, yet Obama wants to punish people
who are successful. Don’t’ the people in Hollywood understand that Obama
will go after them and is going after them?
MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO: I guess not, but you know what? They will
understand when it touches them. Sadly that's what happens. A lot of
people voted for Chavez I believe in the first term – which that’s the
only one I believe that he won for real – and, and because he lied. And
then, like more than half of the people that voted for him started
realizing because then they started being, you know, punished like. They
took away their jobs, you know, because they became like, they, they
closed down stores, they closed down super markets....
MALZBERG: Maria, do you believe if Obama wins again we could wind up like Venezuela in any way?
ALONSO: Well, I think that would be a step forward that, moving forward there.
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