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Edited on Sun Nov-30-08 01:18 AM by Peace Patriot
Chavez is a dictator. Chavez is a wannabe dictator. Chavez is increasingly authoritarian. Blah, blah, blah. We keep hearing the slanders and dire predictions over and over, ad nauseum.
Yet the people of Venezuela give him a 60% approval rating, just gave his socialist party 17 out of 23 state governorships, give their own democracy the highest approval rating of any people in this hemisphere, and have elected Chavez three times (including a short term just prior to the new Constitution), with increasing margins of victory (most recently in 2006, with 63% of the vote), as well as turning back a US-Bushwhack funded rightwing recall election. Are the people in "that beautiful country" stupid peasants? Is that what you're saying? They don't recognize a "dictator" when they see one?
"Things may be really bad...". The man has been president of Venezuela for ten years, with increasing levels of popularity and the support of the voters, in what international observers consider a model of transparent elections. (We should be so lucky!) WHEN are "things" going to get "really bad"?
I'll tell you what I think. I think things are going to get really bad if the Bushwhack plan to instigate a fascist secession coup in the oil-rich Venezuelan state of Zulia--like the one they just tried to pull off in Bolivia--is implemented. Oil War II-South America. That's "things" getting "bad." Right now, "things" have never been better for the people of Venezuela, especially for the poor majority, and for the country as a whole, with the general population at last benefiting from their own oil riches. As well as universal education and universal medical care--many other benefits such as grants/loans to small businesses, and the development of infrastructure and local manufacturing, Venezuelans have 140 billion dollars in international cash reserves--to ride out the Bushwhacks' Financial 9/11--because the Chavez government renegotiated the oil contracts, from the 10/90 giveaway to multinationals of previous rightwing governments, to a 60/40 split in favor of Venezuela, under Chavez. The Chavez government has also clamped down on tax scofflaws, and actually collect taxes, in an orderly and fair manner.
Further, under Chavez, the National Electoral Council is not only completely independent and not only runs honest, aboveboard, transparent elections, the numbers of people voting and the numbers of people participating in self-rule have greatly increased, with enthusiastic encouragement from the government. Chavez lost a proposed Constitutional referendum last year--lost it by a hair--and didn't whine about fraud or the baldfaced lies of the opposition about the reforms. It's funny how they call a leader a "dictator" when he puts everything to a vote of the people. He lost, in a close vote (50.7% to 49.3%) and moved on.
WHEN are "things" going to get bad?
"Things" were bad when the U.S.-Bushwhack supported coup was perpetrated in 2002, and the fascists suspended the Constitution, the National Assembly, the courts and all civil rights, and kidnapped the president and threatened his life. That was bad. And I'm not going to cry any tears over the investigation of that treacherous plot, or any others that the fascist minority cooks up with the Bushwhacks and Exxon Mobil. I mean, fuck them. They don't deserve Chavez. They don't deserve a fair government that proceeds according to the rule of law. Like our Bushwhacks, they ought to rot in jail for their crimes--if they are duly investigated, prosecuted and found guilty--and it would be no loss to Venezuelan democracy whatsoever. Just like here. We could be without Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales and the whole lot of the corpo/fascists who destroyed our country and our democracy. Investigation wouldn't harm us. Prosecution wouldn't harm us. And seeing that lot in jail would do us no harm whatsoever, and would in fact do a world of good.
There is sufficient evidence, to my mind--just from studying a wide variety of news reports--of fascist coup plotting, and also gangsterism, in Zulia, to warrant a government investigation. There is most certainly evidence of dire intentions on the part of the Bushwhacks, and wouldn't they love to hand Obama a bloody awful mess in South America, as their parting gift?
I'm glad Chavez is on it. The Bushwacks and their corpo/fascist cronies hate him. They WILL do him in if they can. And there are plenty of traitors in Zulia--and rightwing death squads across the border in Colombia--who would gladly do the deed, and hand over the oil rights in Zulia to our corporate predators.
The Bushwhacks are not done with us--as their Financial 9/11 plainly demonstrated. What else have they cooked up? What did Donald Rumsfeld mean, in his Dec 07 op-ed in the Washington Post ("The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants like Chavez"), when he urged "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" in South America? The traitorous coup plotters in Zulia? I think it's very likely.
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