Note that I said "setback." With dictators like Chavez it is always a matter of "heads, I win; tails, we flip again."
Monday, 3 December 2007
Two Cheers for Venezuela
Hugo Chavez has had a setback in his bid to be anointed king elected president for life of Venezuela after losing the "reform" vote that would have allowed him to hold office until 2050.
Note that I said "setback." With dictators like Chavez it is always a matter of "heads, I win; tails, we flip again."
Note that I said "setback." With dictators like Chavez it is always a matter of "heads, I win; tails, we flip again."
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51%/49%, huh? I wonder how big the difference was, really, that even Chavez could not plausibly say that he'd won.
Hugo should take a lesson from Vlad Putin, I think.
Preferably a lesson from Vlad Lenin and effing die.
Chavez now says he will keep bringing his initiative up for vote until it eventually passes.
He controls the military, the courts, the assembly, and more oil than is known to exist under both the middle east and Russia.
All he needs to do is to drive out everyone who disagrees with him--make Venezuela so intolerable to anyone with talent or means that they will be forced to leave. In other words, he will emulate Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
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