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Old 12-07-2007
Bnks Bnks is offline
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Re: Chavez Loses Election on 'Reforms'

OK, let's go back to high school civics (have you had a civics class before?)

Modern democracy involves:

1) Majority rule
2) Minority rights
3) Popular sovereignty
4) Some basic civil rights and civil liberties would also help.

Maybe Chavez succeeds on #1 and #3 (though again, you
can't trust the vote), and he certainly fails on #2 and #4.

BBC News | Americas | Analysis: Venezuela awaits new order
Chavez's Censorship (washingtonpost.com)
Anti-Chávez leader under fire | csmonitor.com
Venezuela: Court Orders Trial of Civil Society Leaders (Human Rights Watch, 8-7-2005)
Venezuela - Amnesty International
Index of Economic Freedom
Hugo Chavez's Corruption Problem - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
Hurricane Hugo
Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/57714.pdf

But whatever, I'm not sure I should keep debating you, because you're going to believe what you want anyway. I gave you some more sources of Chavez's clear authoritarianism, but I think it's in vain.
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