punkche

I heard, on NPR today, some fatherfucker professor speaking about the US's greatest foreign policy challenges for 2004.
Hugo Chavez was high on the list, for he is "an authoritarian, anti-democratic president elected democratically." They wonder how the US can find a way to sway the vote against him in the upcoming recall.
WTF are these people thinking? How is it that they can be sooooo fucking arrogent? How can the US bring democracy to a country like Venezuela where not two years ago they were trying to murder the president for not adhearing to US oil interests? And how can they say that influencing a plebescite is democratic?
I fucking hate this government beyond measure. It causes much stress.

I don't want to say that Chavez is not authoritarian. He is. But he's also taking lessons from how the US murdered Allende, and how they overthrew the people's government in Guatemala, what the National Endowment for Democracy has done to so many countries around the world, and so on. He is doing what he thinks peoplel in Venezuela need, and he's asking them if that is what they DO want, and they have a lot of discussion with him about how to proceed. Good? I think so. Anarchist? Hardly. Authoritarian? Yes. But I still want to see what happens. NOTHING has worked in this world yet, and I'm behind that revolution in Venezuela. I hope it works out.