An Ailing Chavez Prays For Time

[Ken Burch]

23. That happened under Chavez too.

He wasn't preventing people from fixing their own homes.

Capriles as president will put the rich first...since they are bankrolling him. He won't have to care at all about the poor and the workers. Why on earth would you ever trust the more-conservative candidate?

If the wealthy vote for a candidate in Latin America...that, by itself, guarantees that that candidate, once in office, will put the wealthy first.

I doubt the poor in Mirando like Capriles.

And officials from Lula's government have said that Capriles was lying when he implied he'd govern like Lula did(btw, Lula basically sold out the poor and the workers as president too, so Lula-like governance in Venezuela would not be an improvement).

I'm sorry, but I don't want Venezuela put through the hell Nicaragua went through between 1990 and 2006-an era where the poor pretty much lost everything. That's what "anticommunism" means...it isn't about fighting big-C Communism(an ideology and alleged "threat" that doesn't exist anymore)it's about forcing the poor to know their place.

Read history.