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Originally Posted by Cowperson
He appeals to a group, the downtrodden, who truly need help and some redistribution of wealth in that country. His rise via the vote is quite understandable and he does support a certain constituency that needs the help.
However, he's got a big corruption problem himself.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13989898/site/newsweek/
And he's rapidly changing constitutional issues and individual rights to suit his own power . . . if I'm not mistaken, as an example, opposition groups n the last election were forbidden from appearing on television for longer than a few minutes - literally - while Chavez was on the air for hours at a time. He's also going to introduce legislation to have the president serve unlimited number of terms. The persistent scare-mongering of an imminent American invasion is pretty comical. Its not hard to see where all this is going for Castro, er, Chavez:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...AA5918C9BC.htm |
I don't see how it's comical at all, considering the most overwhelming examples of american foreign intervention are in latin america, especially over the last 30 years.
You don't think surviving one coup attempt already might make you a bit worrisome?