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In reply to the discussion: No progressives should be demanding new elections in Venezuela due to Chavez' health... [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)in how people talk.
Remember, you are destabilizing somebody else's country when you do, and possibly setting the stage for a coup...that's what talk like this leads to. Nothing positive can come of spreading rumors about Chavez' health...certainly nothing progressive can come of it.
And it's totally inappropriate for anyone on a progressive talkboard to want ANY country to move further right...which is what the Capriles cheerleaders hear want...they want a "pro-business" i.e., antiworker and antipoor)agenda for Venezuela, and the abandonment of the community councils, the first genuinely democratic form of government in Venezuela(conventional parliaments aren't democratic at all, since the rich can always buy control of them).
It's getting ghoulish around here...and there's no reason to act as if we can assume that Chavez was dead.
Besides, it's not clear that Chavez death would invalidate the last election...the deaths of presidents here don't invalidate the elections those presidents won, and don't require the winning parties in those elections to immediately vacate power(as the anti-chavistas are demanding in Venezuela).
This is just like the shit people were talking about Allende in the 1970-1973 era...and it will end the same way if Capriles gets in. That's the way the Latin American Right ALWAYS works and always will work.
Face it.
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