December 02, 2007
Hugo Chavez declares victory in the rape of the Venezuelan Constitution.
The bully-boy from Caracas has bought the votes of the poor and uneducated via largesse from oil sales (but he has not significantly changed their lives because the infrastructure remains the same). Sadly, it will be sometime before the folk realize that they have been bamboozled.
In the anti-vote demonstrations Chavez showed his true colors with gunfire, intimidation, beatings and arrests of what could have been essentially peaceful demonstrations. No doubt Jimmah Cahtuh will be the first to raise a human rights issue now that the bully boy is triumphant.
I wonder who he will bring on as his Leni Riefenstahl? Michael Moore?
UPDATE: 9:00 PM CST - This may have gone up too early, perhaps the people of Venezuela may not have lost their minds. Reports coming in that Chavez may have lost the vote.
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Well this hardly comes as a surprise. What is not mentioned by the opponents of this demagogue is that the people who support Hugo really do have nothing much to lose. Even if they remain poor and the economy eventually tanks, they were poor before and the Venezuelan economy was never likely to really benefit them under the 'free market' conditions. Hugo may be 'bribing' the destitute and deceiving the 'idealistic' but as I said previously he IS popular. The only reason this vote was close is that many of his natural supporters thought he was going a bridge too far this time.
He is popular for a reason and until that reason goes away he will remain popular. This is the same type of situation as in Cuba. Castro does keep his foot on dissenters, but he is nonetheless popular among the masses. This is what the US fails to see and thus fails to adequately deal with. The exiles in Miami do not truly reflect the 'average' Cuban and the anti-Chavistas do not truly reflect Venezuela. That is why he keeps 'winning'. He doesn't even 'need' the intimidation factor, but because personally he is himself thuggish by nature, and because his supporters tend to be from the less 'nuanced' segments of society, things tend to get a little 'volatile'.
But as always a little --- ¿Por qué no te callas? , never goes to waste when evaluating Hugo. I can easily understand how he gets people to support him. I just can't understand how he gets people to listen to him
Posted by: dougf at Sunday, December 02 2007 07:57 PM (16GPT)
Reports coming in that Chavez may have lost the vote.
How much you wanna bet the "official" vote goes Chavez's way?
Posted by: DADvocate at Sunday, December 02 2007 09:11 PM (eXrSb)
It appears that Chavez has lost. Let's hope the ballot boxes do not get stuffed and good people's ballots don't end up "missing."
What a shame. Ha. Does anyone think that Sen. Kerry might go down and they could hold hands? What will Sean Penn have to say about all this?
Will more Hollywood "intellectuals" troop down to bolster Chavez...instead of going on USO tours to bolster America's troops actually doing good things?
Enquiring Minds want to know.
Finally: GM, not one in a thousand people know who Leni Riefenstahl was. But then, Chavez doesn't have a Munich.
P.S. Even now Tsar Putin I is designed his crown.
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