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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)All the rhetoric you're using here implies that this is an illegitimate government...that the PSUV has no right to be in power, even though it was just elected again weeks ago(and even though the PSUV made massive gains in local elections after that).
There is no reason to act as if the current Venezuelan government is unlawful.
I wasn't calling YOU a fascist...what I did say was that what you're saying here is objectively helping the fascist types(and the forces in OUR government that are obsessed with getting the PSUV out of office and the poor of Venezuela back in their place are doing that as well...however "moderate" they may think they are being.
Venezuela's future needs to be decided by the Venezuelans...no one else has any right to have a say in it.
Hugo Chavez may die...but us gringos need to shut the hell up about Latin America, because too much of its blood is on all of our hands. We owe the entire Southern part of this hemisphere an abject apology for everything we've ever done down there.