An Open Letter to Sean Penn: Actress Maria Conchita Alonso Blasts Penn’s Comments on Hugo Chavez

There are no words to describe the idiocy that is Sean Penn.

Her father was a wealthy landowner who
was connected with the previous dictator
As a young girl Conchita got everything she wanted and when a new regime entered that returned the wealth from natural resources from the people it was pilferred from originally she of course supported the priviledged class.
Not hard to figure out which side of the tracks she was born on. Try to deny it, I don believe you, someone once said in a song.

Maria used to be kind of cute – WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED? Looks like the cocaine and booze did its job – wreaking havoc on the body and face!! Have another botox shot!!!

Patricia,
The fact the Chavez just imprisoned CEO of Globovivison would not change Penn’s thinking. On the Bill Mahar show, that’s what Penn was advocating. Penn wants people who speak up against Chavez jailed. He wants it here. First amendment be damned.

I am Venezuelan and Maria Conchita Alonzo was way too nice. The situation in Venezuela is even worse than she describes and Sean Pen just reflect how ignorant some people are and I have found way too many in the United States. I can not believe that people like Hugo Chavez just because Chavez said one or two things against Bush, still, the oil that feeds the US planes in Irak is Venezuelan and Chavez won’t talk about it. I do not like Bush but I never saw any north american asking for his resignation or taking him to court. In the case of Sean Pen… is very good to adore Chavez from the US, why don’t he moves to Venezuela where we have more murders in a weekend than in a month in Irak while we are not in war nor have guerrilla? and that is to said the least. Maria Conchita has suffered a lot because her older brother in Venezuela got his house burned down for manifesting against Chavez 5 years ago. His name is Rafael Alonzo and I knew him. Sean Pen is an ignorant, that what happen when actors do not go to school. Is good Maria Conchita spoke while Chavez is paying big money to keep everybody shut and promote his lies.
You like Chavez? move to Venezuela then, I dare you to do it.

Why should anyone be surprised that Sean Penn is carrying on the legacy of his openly Marxist father, Leo.
It’s no different than Obama trying to play down his close association with former Weather Underground leaders like Bill Ayers and Jim Wallis.
It’s no different than Al Gore’s connection (through his father) to Occidental Petroleum owner, Armand Hammer, who’s parents were such devoted Marxists that they named their son after the Communist symbol, the “Arm and Hammer”.
Just as much as we have Capitalist “dynasties”, we have political dynasties.
But the worse kind of dynasty is a Hollywood Political dynasty.. ;0)
Diogenes

Does Sean Penn watch the news and is he able to read? Is he an idiot or a communist?

Oh shut up Conchita. No one even knows who you are. And Fox News Babe??? That kind of says it all. Just another rich Cuban who had to leave because the family wanted to stay rich at the expense of the poor peasants. Take a walk.

No electricity or running water for long periods. Fat Boy even had to say publicly “no more singing in the shower, I only take 30 second showers and I don’t stink” yeah right! Grow up Sean. Fidel, Hugo, Che, & sadly Obama are all leftest thugs.

@sue
You’re basing someone’s relevance on how famous they currently are? How shallow are you? That would make your opinion irrelevant. Her views have greater relevance because she is actually from that part of the world she knows what she is talking about…Sean Penn and everyone else can learn from her perspective.

María Conchita is a has been. She wants another 15 minutes of fame. Guess what? She ain’t going to get them coz she’s completely irrelevant. Wake up, America!; you media feeds you lies and one of those is that Chávez is the devil incarnate. Do your own research… beyond American media.

Sean pen and the Martin Sheens of the world are idiots> just because the entertain the believe that they know it all and their opinions are relevent. Mr Penn and the similar idiots that fallow them dont know crap on how the Fidels and the Chaves of the world opress the citizens of their countries.

Its sad to see the rebuttals from the left here. A “B” list actress? Maria is a nobody? Every Venezuelan I have known does not like Chavez. Venezuela has one of the highest poverty and crime rates in Latin America. The newly elected president of El Salvador, who is also from the leftist party FMLN there, has tried to distance himself and his party from Chavez. Only the puppets of Ortega and Morales are aligning themselves with him.
If Venezuela is nice under Chavez, they would be boasting one of the largest homicide rates in the region and one of the largest rates of immigration. A large number of Venezuelans have looked to Colombia as their means of escaping. Penn is an idiot.

If Chavez were smart he would sell Venuzuela’s oil on the open market. This simple act would generate enough income to double the standard of living for every citizen in Venezuela. Instead he sells gas to the people for 10 cents a gallon and lets them eat cake.

Sean Penn is a tried and true Communist, just like his father. It doesn’t matter to him what the Truth of a situation is – he doesn’t bother looking beyond the idealogoy, and therefore does a huge disservice to those he claims to uphold. Ignorant, ignorant, ignorant. The good thing is no one takes him seriously anymore.

sean penn, YOU need to be in prison for your treason to the United States of America. what a dumbass.

i dont care about politics but i really would wish people could hear the truth about venezuela. its such a breeding ground for crime and poverty, to say otherwise is very irresponsible. sure there are good areas but are far outweighed by the bad

Posted by: JO
But the worse kind of dynasty is a Hollywood Political dynasty.
I could not agree with you more.

Good for Maria Conchita Alonso for speaking out against everything that Sean Penn brought up. Sean Penn continues to squire around with the Castro’s and now Hugo Chavez supporting their causes, and it is totally refreshing to see Maria come out, who is actually familiar with the countries and its dictators. I say you go girl, Maria, keep speaking your mind and set this clueless actor Sean Penn straight. I tend to also agree with Maria, Sean Penn is a great actor, but is totally clueless when it comes to what is actually going on south of the border. We are blessed to live in a country that supports the right to speak out on any issue, but to side with Castro or Chavez and claim they are misunderstood is a travesty. Good going Maria and keep the dialogue going. signed a new MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO fan!!!

Sean, Sean, Sean…. how can someone of your movie prowess, that I have thoroughly ejoyed over the years…. be so short minded. Chavez has shown the world he is nothing more than a dictator, in sheeps clothing. The thing that makes him different is that he controls almost a third of the oil that we use in the U.S. Let’s put this in your past terms… “Dude WTH read!!! In the famous words of Mr. Hand your history teacher… “Gee, Mr. Spicoli, I don’t know! You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to leave your words right up here for all my classes to enjoy, giving you full credit of course, Mr. Spicoli.”

go to jail for speaking out against a
government figure . Hmmm. How much time should Mr.Penn serve for blasting our President and government . But he is free . No jail time . Because here you can voice your opinion without the threat of government retaliation (well so far .things may change if Obama gets his way). How much jail time should I get for that remark or should I be shot .

Maria Conchita is beautiful, intelligent and she is even more beautiful after writing this open letter to this idiot names Sean Penn.

Sean Penn’s views are absolutely those of a total moran. He may be a good actor, but then a chimpanzee can be trained to be convincing in a movie roll. (Cheetah, by the way, was the most memorable character in the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies.) Actors like Penn don’t have to reason, he just has to act like he’s told so people will buy movie tickets. Capitalism enriches the Hollywood dim wits like Penn who love to run around slamming the very people and culture that protects their right to be fools. He ought to be thankful for his blessings of liberty, instead he’s a brainless, functionally illiterate, lilliputian mouthpiece for nefarious demagogues.

Thank you Conchita Alonso for setting the record straight. Those on the liberal left, like Sean Penn, do not have a clue. If they did . . . . they wouldn’t be on the left !
Thankfully, Sean Penn is not in politics. However, Conchita . . . I would gladly cast a vote for you !!!!!!
You are a gutsy lady. Few have the courage to stand up against the Left in Hollywood or in the Media !!!!!!
If only there were more women like you. What a truely wonderful world this would be !!!!!!!!!!!

You said it right (in the post by Steve) Shawn Penn do the USA a favor move to Venezuela you MORRON, and a Posted by: Deborah Kennedy , It takes one to know one!!!

I almost never take any actor’s political opinion seriously because one never knows if the comments are truly what they believe or simply an attempt to gain publicity. But in this case, Sean Penn as stepped over the line by advocating that the 1st Admendment be ignored and people prosecuted for speaking their mind. If Sean Penn had any integrity, he would leave the US and move where his political beliefs better align – Cuba or Argentina. Stop riding the horse that has made you rich and has given you a platform to speak your mind (without prosecution) and see how far one of Chavev’s horses take you. I will never watch another Penn Movie again.

I am a Venezuelan national. Know Maria Conchita Alonso in person and as the famous actress she is. I could not agree more with her claim. Mr. Penn seems to have been blinded by his anti-Bush feelings to the point of still insisting in siding with Chavez. True, Mr. Chavez won the first time in good legal terms, but that is not the case of the following elections which were forged and manipulated by his regime. Chavez has no opposition at all. All the judicial branches in venezuela are controlled by Chavez and his people. Congress, senate, the supreme court, EVERYTHING is controlled by Chavez! that’s totalitarianism, a trait of dictatorship. The guy even fixed the constitution (without any opposition) to extend his powers and rule indefinitely. He has expropiated most foreing companies, has encouraged the invassion of the inhabitated private property (such as vacation and or second homes), has bankrupted the nation, has increased the debt in TRILLIONS, has done nothing to control the levels of criminality, has led venezuela to become one of the most dangerous places in the hemisphere, persecutes political opponents with guns, phony arrests, and illegal imprisonments giving to some of them up to 30 years (!!!!) in jail for being an enemy of the regime. Has eliminated more than 45 radio stations that were unfriedly to his persona, closed te oldest TV station (RCTV) for same reasons, and keeps Globovision (the only station left that still confronts him) cornered and under daily threats. I invite Mr. Penn to learn the facts, stop his left-leaning bias for a second (I am a liberal BTW) and give Venezuela a true chance to be seen as it truly is right now thanks to Chavez.

Miss Alonso belong to the kind of people that describe Chavez’s government as an “atrocious regime” and all of his actions as “crimes”. Yet, this same people never made a comment on the acts of the argentinian military regime or Pinochet’s chilean regime that tortured and killed thousands of political dissents and opponents during the seventies. It is also the same people that describe colombian president Uribe as a “democrat”.
What happens is that this type of people live and function in their own dimension. Here in USA they march the streets shouting insults to President Obama, and pray everyday for the return of a Bush style government.
How many journalists, labor leaders, and plain citizens has been assesinated in Venezuela on Chavez orders? Miss Alonso, your agenda is designed in Miami, just shut up in front of Sean Penn. Why you don’t comment on your brother’s activities against Chavez, hand to hand with Uribe’s colombian paramilitaries?

I think we need to step back and understand what Chavez has accomplished. He has managed to effectively polarize a nation to the point where Chavistas and Opposition can’t have a conversation with one another. That is the major problem. I have lived in Caracas, Merida, and in rural Merida. Despite what Venezuelans may feel, on a whole, they are not particularly well-educated. With a great love for life, but a marginal work ethic that has developed over the past 3 decades, who would refuse free money and unsecured loans from the government? Of course I’m going to vote for the guy that puts food on my table! Personally, I think Chavez is nuts, but remember that he was voted in (by 80% I think) because the wealthy had neglected their country and the less fortunate. We need to take care of one another or revolution is indeed the outcome.
I had a very wealthy friend from Orange County that always thought Cuba was the promised land, “man, they have it all without this capitalistic BS”. A two month stint in Cuba and those ideas were squashed. Venezuela is a spectacular country with the most passionate people I have ever met. Unfortunately, the corruption is such a part of who Venezuelans are (Chavistas and Opposition alike), they are screwed, likely for decades to come. Personally, I still love Venezuela, but I was optimistic that Chavez, who I never cared for, might actually be well-intentioned, is just a very charismatic politician (or madman, I suppose). All of it is so very sad to see, especially in a country with such great wealth and potential.

Chavez is a crook, has opponents arrested, etc. so I don’t know how Penn supports him but, having seen Penn interviewed I can’t imagine why anyone cares what he “thinks” about anything since it’s obviously not very clear thought.
But all that being said, Chavez does have a strong base of support from when he began long needed reforms and the crooked business leaders tried to overthrow him, only to have him bounce back within a couple days.
And a poor people appreciate even a little help. Look at the TV ads for Venezuela’s CITGO, which pays for heating oil for hundreds of thousands of Americans when the record-profit American oil companies don’t help with a cent. One American veteran who received winter fuel oil said, in an indirect tribute to Chavez, “I nearly froze to death for America fighting in Korea. I never thought my country would let me freeze to death at home.”
So Chavez is a dictator, but he does have a significant base of support, just like Fidel Castro.

My father-in-law was a political prisoner in Cuba for 12 years. My husband, his mother, father, grandmother and sister came in a shrimp boat in 1980. I’ve come to learn a lot about the way a communist country really works, and there’s nothing pretty or dignified about it. If Sean Penn was not a famous actor and was thrown into Venezuela or Cuba to live like an ordinary citizen of that country, he wouldn’t survive. My point? Someone who has never lived in that country should not have the right to comment on how great that country is being run. SEAN PENN, KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF AND IF YOU REALLY ADMIRE THE COMMUNIST WAY OF GOVERNING, MOVE TO CUBA OR VENEZUELA.

An actor who knows nothing about Venezuela,has never lived there. An actor who makes 20,000 million dollars per picture. Hmm.. who does he think he is to defend Chavez policies and atrocities to this wonder country of Venezuela. Kudos to Ms. Maria Conchita Alonso who happens to be Cuban and raised in Venezuela. Now there we know someone who knows what she is talking about. Kudos to Ms. Alonso

To Arlene who stated that Conchita came from wealth in Cuba and her family was pro Batista. I don’t know if that’s true or not but you’re simply deflecting the core issue. Chavez & the Castros are dictators, there are political prisoners in those countries who dared only to speak out peacefuly. Many of us that came from Cuba are NOT pro Batista and had NO wealth, we weren’t born “on the right side of the track”. The problem of Batista isn’t the discussion it’s the dictatorship in Cuba & Venezuela & I for one am grateful she said something to the idiot that is Sean Penn. He’s never lived anywhere but in this free country. He’s a joke & I hope most Americans are smarter than that!

Mr Penn, go and live in Venezuela or Cuba, But not as a friend of the dictator, of course. Go and live as common people, who has no choices about what to eat, what to think, what to say and what to be in your live. Have no freedom is being a slave. Ask Fidel and Chavez about this.

Sean .Chavez dont let no one to talk. free speech is gone and you agree with that and hi is scared like a rat,people need to speak out .You like los Castros came on the REVOLUCION is now stuck for so many years just because the Castros Demons.Like the CHE GUVARA I like to know what he did for the Cuba just to became a big jail is that whate you call REVOLUCION my god.Before we have HITLER,LOS CASTRO,CHAVEZ, now SEAN PENN

I agree. Sean Penn, move it Venezuela. You aren’t wanted here any longer!

I lived and worked nearly 10 years years in Venezuela, dealing with many government and military leaders. I never met Chavez, but often heard his speeches and he came across as a populist wannabe megalomaniac. When the country elected him, they traded half a century of “kleptocracy” for a guy with an elementary school education who likes to drink beer, watch baseball, and tell funny stories about evil Yankee imperialists. It’s all window dressing people. It doesn’t matter who runs the countries when the banks own the planet. Chavez will remain in power as long as he does what he’s supposed to do. Meanwhile, we debate this ‘ism’ versus that when they’ll all sides of the same corrupt coin. Venezuela is so gutted you can’t even exchange their currency outside their borders– it’s worthless. As far as Mr. Penn, there is a long and glamorous association between Hollywood and Communism– don’t expect that to change anytime soon. Chavez, Mao, Brown, Obama– they’re all sociopaths anyway– it doesn’t matter which political philosophy they pretend to hold.

wake up people. large numbers of the goofy left share penn’s views.

Sean Penn? Never heard of him.

I am Venezuelan and have learned to appreciate the freedom and opportunities the United States has to offer. To those of you critizing Maria Conchita Alonzo, shame on you! She is not writing to win a popularity contest. She is a Cuban born, but was raised in Venezuela. I know exactly what she is talking about it. My family still resides in Venezuela. Yes, she is right, there is no freedom of speech. But, that is not the only thing Venezuelans do not have. You need to live there to appreciate poverty, crime, lack of water, electricity. I feel sorry for those who has not choice but to live there. Fortunately, I left many years ago.
It is easy for Sean Penn to defend Chavez. He goes to Venezuela to visit the “best” places. I am sure he gets showered with good food, etc. Mr. Penn is a good actor, but boy he needs to go back to his roots. He lives in Hollywood. The city of illusions! How easy is to support a dictator when you do not live in that country. I hate politics. They are all the same, but at least the USA is still the land of opportunities. Despite of our current economic situation, we know that things will change. Venezuelans only see a dark future. Sean Penn and Chavez are narcissists. Thank you Maria Conchita for defending our country, our people.

It’s amazing how people on the left resort to personal attacks when they don’t agree with what someone says. They like to say how “tolerant” they are but that only applies to others who share their views. Mr. Penn is a fine example of this when he wants people jailed for speaking out against Chavez. Same goes for the people here who attack Ms. Alonzo for speaking out against Sean Penn.

I don’t know why anyone would doubt Sean, who personally went to NOLA and Haiti to rescue victims there.
I think Sean Penn is one of the most honest people on the planet.
And I have read every word he wrote about Chavez and Castro.

sean penn sucks!

Sean Penn needs to move to Venezuela if he thinks Hugo Chavez is so great. Seriously, Penn is showing his lack of intelligence and simple-mindedness, as do most left wing losers, by looking at the world in an idealistic way (instead of reality). Amazing how Penn is a big fan of Chavez, a little man who suffers from ‘small-man’s complex’ and a very low IQ.