And underlines the fact that in the current doublespeak "democracy" = "free market."
They may get more then they bargained for because I think that Chavez has managed to convince the mass of people in Venezuela that they have the right to a decent life and to a representative government.
Joanna
Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote:
> Even more seriously BBC has a long segment today on Chavez's
> "undemocratic behavior".I think this indicates a mounting
> orchestrated campaign against Chavez by the Washington neo-cons which,
> in turn, means that some serious attempt against his life is about to
> happen.
> This should make happy this right winger Mike Larkin who has been
> posting anti Chavez neo-con articles from the Weekly Standard on this
> list.
> The interesting thing about these "anti-democratic " charges against
> Venezuela is that the hard facts such as : No.of political, prisoners,
> No. of newspapers, tv stations censored or shot down, No. of elections
> canceled, etc, all equal zero.
> Cristobal Senior
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