Worldwide: No more CHAVEZ!1

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0904/p06s10-woam.html

No More Chávez? Global marchers hope so.

Foes of the Venezuelan president, who is on a world tour, are expected to congregate today around the world to protest his policies.

By Sara Miller Llana | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

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Chávez will exploit the marches

While his opponents in the region might see space to gain a foothold, the marches are likely to do little to the president's political influence in Venezuela.

"I don't think it's going to hurt him unless there is a really attractive alternative candidate that emerges," says Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. "He'll exploit this…. He'll say the people who are organizing these marches, they don't live here, they don't understand all that I'm doing for poor people, that we are trying to do things differently to achieve greater social justice."

Any time an opposition march is called in Venezuela, Chávez supporters amass in parallel. Now, the same scenario could present itself internationally.

His supporters are trying to rally people across the globe to counter the "No More Chávez" protests. On their Facebook page, called "Latin America on the Path to Peace," protesters are urged to gather at Venezuelan embassies and consulates around the world today to declare "Latin America as a zone of peace, free of US military bases and intervention," the Facebook page states.

The end result today could be more of the same: polarization. "The net effect is that it just exacerbates the polarization that already exists in Venezuela and internationally," says Mr. Ellner. "There is not much in the way of a middle ground."

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And by "attractive" it means a life form with more charisma and brains than various reptiles.

[UTUSN]

1. It's the THREE A.M. alarm call, calling all Huguito Squads!1 n/t

[UTUSN]

2. LOL - Ode to my faithfully lurking UnReKKKer!1

Dear One,

Guess what, not EVERY thread posted is worth EITHER a Rec OR an UnReKKK!1 And I myself said many times during the Great Debate on UnReKKK that I never look at the Greatest Page and regard it mostly as a tool for Visitors, like media types, who don't have the time to spend in the entrails of DU, but how I DO a lot of Rec-ing (obviously, for OTHERS), both for merit and to keep worthy topics from falling through the cracks.

Ah, you DISAPPROVE of thread after thread!1 Woe is YOU!1 Kisses to make your sour woe all better for you!1

[Peace Patriot]

3. More Puke 'news' instigated (and trumpeted) tea-baggers.

And the CSM is right in there honking and snorting with the worst of the "Animal Farm" war profiteer and global corporate predator pigs.

:thumbsdown: :puke: :thumbsdown:

[UTUSN]

4. But "Puke 'news" and "tea-baggers" don't refer to ME, do it?!1

It don't mean ME sleepless all night ingesting "talking points" (FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD) and regurgitating it all HERE, DO it?!1

(I wish I had had that memory in various curricula courses!1)

[Peace Patriot]

6. No, I didn't mean you. nt

[Wilms]

5. 200 down 5,999,999,800 to go!