Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:47:58 PM
In another day of bad news for democracy in Venezuela, Dictator Hugo Chavez is seeking to change its Constitution. Under the already changed (by him) and ruined constitution, Chavez still would have to give up power in 2012. Read about it
here.
As you can plainly see he has no intension on leaving power in 2012, so does it really mean anything at this point to change it? Probably not, because he will remain in power after 2012, he doesn't seem to care that many of Venezuela's citizens don't support him and this plan. However he is looking to make it easier to get legitimacy from the global elites. Without it, it is easier for critics to charge him with becoming a Dictator. The global elites like the American mainstream media already support him. So he is using Democracy to ruin Democracy in Venezuela.
At this point it seems unlikely that Chavez's opposition will be able to stop the changes. It quickly becoming clear that Venezuela is going to be the Cuba of the 21st century. Its a sad state of affairs when one of the wealthier South American countries will likely become a basketcase and quickly become one of the poorest. Cuba was once one of the wealthier Central American countries until Castro came to power.
We can only hope that Chavez doesn't remain in power as long as Castro. But the lack of attention this situation has gotten doesn't make it look good. It seems like few care that we are losing a new nation to communism. Many think that we ended communism, when the Berlin Wall was torn down. It still alive and well, many still think and believe it offers solutions to modern problems. It doesn't, it only brings misery to those who are stuck in places with it. It has never worked and it never will. It often hides under the face of it little brother socialism, something else the world needs to rid itself of.
Will we be able to rid the world of socialism and communism in the 21st Century? Or are we going to be too busy trying to rid the world of militant Islam to notice it growing back?