Interesting Al-Jazeera video on Venezuela
Thanks, Michael, for the link. It sort of expressed my opinion that this
vote was a problem Chavez.
Actually, if it had passed by the same margin that it lost it may well have
been worse. Anyway, I myself didn't like the unlimited term of office
proposal nor the Presidential ability to make appointments of regional
officials in the proposal. I fought against a change to unlimited terms in
my own union, so why should I want it otherwise for Venezuela? Before the
vote, Chavez himself said that this vote was a vote for or against him
personally -- not good.
The defeat for Chavez was even stronger in that the governmental exit polls
showed it passing. That fact decreases somewhat the credibility of those
governmental polls.
I wonder what lessons Chavez and supporters of the Bolivarian process will
draw from this. Chavez's announcement already today that he will try again
is not very encouraging. He should have taken time to assess the lessons
learned.
I would like to make one statement: voting against this proposal should not
itself be interpreted that the person so voting is anti-socialist. For
most such voters, that may be true, but not for all.
Paul Z.
************************************************************************
(Vol.23) THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001 "a benchmark in 9/11 research"
video summary from Snowshoe Films at http://snowshoefilms.com
(Vol.24) TRANSITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND IN POLAND AND SYRIA
********************* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
