| Jackson50 said: I am not a supporter of Hugo Chavez, but it is spurious to compare him to the names you mentioned. Despite the demonization of Chavez, he does display a modicum of respect for liberty and the Venezuelan Constitution. Yes, term limits for elected officials have been removed, but there are other means of recourse available for the citizens of Venezuela. If I remember correctly, your Constitution allows for a recall of elected officials including the president. There was a recall election against him in 2004. Let us not overreact to the results of this referendum. |
He has violated the constitution several times but he has a lot of control in other branches of the state, private TV stations will cease to send over the air signals when their concession ends because Chavez doesn't want anything bad to be said about his government, he keeps dividing our people, insulting people that don't agree with him...
Jackson50 if you ever come to Venezuela and you say something against Chavez you will be expelled, the Human Rights Watch guy assigned to South America was expelled because he said some mild stuff about the governement, never before a person from HRW was expellled from a South American country. Lech Walesa wasn't allowed to visit and a spanish deputy was expelled just on friday!
You can say that still this is nothing compared to the other guys I mentioned, but what if someday things get to that point? Do I have to live with that possibility?
Something else, you talk about the recall in 2004, do you know that for that recall to happen the population has to gather more than 6 million signatures? AND THAT THOSE SIGNATURES ARE MADE PUBLIC?? Yeah anyone could know who signed and who didn't, and of course people working for the government feard that if they siogned they could lose their job, which happenned to the people that had the balls to sign
