[lbo-talk] Tariq Ali on Venezuela

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 16 22:40:00 PDT 2004


Luke Weiger wrote:


>From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>> We can only hope that Chavez's sticking to the constitution will not
>> eventually provide yet another exemplification of Juan Bosch's law.
>> (Leaders who trust the U.S. end up dead or in exile.)
>>
>> Carrol
>
>Leaders who don't stick to their nation's constitutions often enough
>exemplify another law: governments that don't respect (to cut short idiotic
>debates before they begin, respect admits of degree) their constitutions
>create slaughterhouses alongside dead end roads.

So your respectful leaders don't have to be worried about being overthrown by local oligarchs backed by Washington, right? How would your ideal respectful liberal leader deal with that problem?

Doug



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