Jackson50 said:
I understand your concern. As you can attest from this thread and the discussion you and I had, I am not a Chavez apologist. With that being said, I also tend not to overreact to an event. This referendum was not the same power grab as the 2007 referendum. Does it increase the possibility that Chavez may abuse his power? Yes, I think it does. Does it grant him the absolute power the leaders you mentioned enjoy? No, it does not.
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Well it's ok, even if you supported Chavez you're on your right and I kinda like having these discussions because I'm not a stubborn person and I like when people give me good arguments.
You have a valid point when you say that this election don't give him the power thet the other leaders I mentioned have, but I don't want to be in a "told you so" situation. In that other thread you brought I said that Chavez would try to find a way to mantain the power., that's exactly what just happenned, this is a guy who lke to be friends with governments that violate human rights publicly and there's a quote in Venezuela that says "tell me who you're with and I'll tell you who you are". I'm not against to have good relations with every country even if those countries have a distatorship, but to praise those dictatorships is something that leaves a lot of other people thinking (Chavez gives a lot of praise to Cuban, Iranian and Belarusian governments).
One of the things he could do right now that doesn't escape the laws is remove the licenses that are valid for private TV and radio stations to send over the air broadcasts, don't you think that's very worrisome? I know a lot of private TV station suck and some try to lie to the people but aren't you supposed to choose what you want to watch?
And don't you find dictatorish (I think I just made that word) that foreign people are expelled just because they say something bad about the government? Even people from HRW?
