Chavez and the Venezuela Revolution


	Chavez and the Venezuela Revolution

creepysleepy

12-4-2007 10:14 AM

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doc, william stodden, chavevz, venezuela, revolution, cuba, castro

creepysleepy says:

Creepy Sleepy Correspondent and Phd candidate at Southern Illinois University William 'Doc' Stodden analyzes and dissects the recent Venezuelan election, Democracy and Chavez, and the parallels to Cuba. Fantastic writing.

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The reforms he has pushed through the government of Venezuela are necessary for ameliorating poverty in Venezuela.  They were very people centric.  Redistributing wealth is part of Chavez’ overall programme for putting people in charge of the country.  And I applauded him, even more so perhaps after watching the documentary “The Revolution will not be televised.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://supernovaearth.org/2007/12/03/chavez-and-the-venezuela-revolution/">But I am a democrat also, and activities of late have made me question Chavez’ democratic credentials.  One of my largest critiques of Cuba has been that there has not been an election where the people got to decide if they wanted Castro to remain.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://supernovaearth.org/2007/12/03/chavez-and-the-venezuela-revolution/">Chavez in Venezuela was setting himself up to exist in a similar universe.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://supernovaearth.org/2007/12/03/chavez-and-the-venezuela-revolution/">I was scared for the Venezuelan revolution yesterday morning.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://supernovaearth.org/2007/12/03/chavez-and-the-venezuela-revolution/">In summary, I would like to applaud the people of Venezuela for getting it right, where the people of Cuba did not.  </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9BFC863D-DB88-4989-9E62-7652F4469F09/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>