Enabling Law draft granting dictatorial powers to Maduro

[Peace Patriot]

18. Why did Lula da Silva need Brazil's "enabling law" to protect a wide swath of the Amazon...

...where an uncontacted tribe was discovered?

BECAUSE THE ELECTED LEGISLATURE WANTED THE ELECTED PRESIDENT TO HAVE THE POWERS NECESSARY TO SOLVE CERTAIN PROBLEMS THAT THE LEGISLATURE COULD NOT SOLVE!

"Enabling laws" are a common feature of Latin American democracies. It is DISINFORMATION to imply otherwise.

As for Maduro saying there is no corruption in Venezuela--IF he said this, and I have to say that I have found you to be a completely unreliable writer as to what leftist leaders in Latin America have said--IF he said this, I refer you to that "moron," Ralph Waldo Emerson, who famously wrote that, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

It is a sign of INTELLIGENCE to change your position in the face of new facts, or to correct a wrong statement for whatever reason--good, bad or indifferent--the wrong statement was initially uttered.

Calling Latin American leftists "dictators" is the hobgoblin of little rightwing minds, when they can't find some "inconsistency" to get all bitchy about.