Sunday, April 02, 2006

Spoken like a true autocrat As if we did not know he is an autocrat, Hugo Chavez said this Sunday that he suspected the opposition would not field a candidate in the December Presidential elections. If that was the case, he said, and then he will propose a change to the Constitution to allow for his indefinite reelection. This was spoken like a true autocrat with no belief in democracy, rather than promotes more democracy, let’s have less! Why not count all the ballots, have a balanced CNE or make the electoral system more transparent. Nah! But what is even worse is that he is saying he will be President for life, as none of his followers can even aspire to become President. After all, there are no primaries to select him and he has no plans for any, ever. This is nothing new, but it amazes me that statements like these do not bother those that claim Hugo Chavez is a democrat. The aim of term limits is to provide more democracy, not less. To prevent someone from grabbing so much power that it is impossible to remove. To stop someone form perpetuating him or herself in the position a la Castro or his imitator, Hugo Chavez. 7:33:20 PM    comment []

The National Geographic on Chavez Reading the comments session (thanks Deanna) I realized there was this article on President Chavez. Here is the link. Read it and tell the National Geographic what do you think. The complete url below, just in case: http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/forum2.tmpl?issue_id=20060401&;forum_index=2 4:55:05 PM    comment []