clandestino
12th February 2006, 00:23
Someone please educate me... According to eye witness people that live in Venezuela, they tell me this:
A new penal code, that has just been approved, makes it illegal any form of government critique. In the present day, 248 people, including, journalists, political authorities, university professors and military men, are already on trial as a result of this clause.
There is also a new law that censors the free press. Commentaries and news casts that can be seen as an attempt to destabilize the government are censored. Legislation restricts the time schedule that radio and TV can transmit telecasts. The rules of the political and institutional game have changed constantly, since Chavez invested upon himself a list of extraordinary powers in the seven plebiscitos that he called for and consequentially won...
The dude is a leader with a charismatic personality and enough of a populist program of generic future reforms to gain broad sympathy, at least at the outset, among the common people, thus Chavez is a caudillo by definition... Besides standing up to the US, can anyone give a good reason why this dude is so popular?The colonel does not have a socialist or Marxist history. He made his name in the military because he was a lieutenant, and the leader of one of the coups that attempted to overthrow the government of Andres in 1992, and became an authoritarian populist. Kinda sounds like a future Pinochet... or is this like REDSTAR would say, "a prettyl aughable argument" Please EDUCATE ME!!!
A new penal code, that has just been approved, makes it illegal any form of government critique. In the present day, 248 people, including, journalists, political authorities, university professors and military men, are already on trial as a result of this clause.
There is also a new law that censors the free press. Commentaries and news casts that can be seen as an attempt to destabilize the government are censored. Legislation restricts the time schedule that radio and TV can transmit telecasts. The rules of the political and institutional game have changed constantly, since Chavez invested upon himself a list of extraordinary powers in the seven plebiscitos that he called for and consequentially won...
The dude is a leader with a charismatic personality and enough of a populist program of generic future reforms to gain broad sympathy, at least at the outset, among the common people, thus Chavez is a caudillo by definition... Besides standing up to the US, can anyone give a good reason why this dude is so popular?The colonel does not have a socialist or Marxist history. He made his name in the military because he was a lieutenant, and the leader of one of the coups that attempted to overthrow the government of Andres in 1992, and became an authoritarian populist. Kinda sounds like a future Pinochet... or is this like REDSTAR would say, "a prettyl aughable argument" Please EDUCATE ME!!!