Posted on 12/06/2005 10:17:56 PM PST by economist-student
Maduro [National Assembly's president] announces legislation for Chávez' rule until 2030
The new National Assembly (AN) to be inaugurated next January with total dominance of government followers will take steps for President Hugo Chávez to rule until 2030, AN president Nicolás Maduro reported, as quoted by DPA.
Maduro submitted the priorities of the new legislative term during a ceremony where Caracas incoming deputies were proclaimed. The congresspersons were chosen during the elections last Sunday where the opposition did not run.
The senior official anticipated enactment of laws "for people and with people" and noted that the new AN will work for consolidation of the Bolivarian revolution.
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I don't know whether the article is a joke, unlike the subject. If it's serious, we know what needs to be done... immediately.
Opposition parties in Venezuela didn't participate in yesterday's parliamentary elections alleging that the National Electoral Council (CNE), which is completely dominated by chavistas, didn't provide the necessary conditions for a free and honest vote. After the opposition pulled out, Chavez went on several national radio and TV broadcasts asking his followers to vote and prove that the opposition was a minority. Many government employees were warned that they would be fired if they didn't vote. But yesterday, after the Venezuelan media showed the lack of voter participation, the CNE had to admit that 75% of Venezuelans abstained from participating in this farce. By not voting, the Venezuelan people proved that Chavez's popularity has dramatically dropped since he became a puppet of Fidel Castro. The only way that Chavez can stay in power is by committing fraud, or by doing what his mentor has done in Cuba for 47 years: abolish the elections altogether and proclaim himself dictator for life. Jorge Rodriguez, another 'Bolivarian revolutionary' who likes to live the good life A report in El Nuevo Herald, published on Saturday December 3, shows that Jorge Rodríguez, President of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), stayed for two nights in June of this year at the luxurious Boca Raton Resort & Club, a hotel frequented by billionaires and Hollywood luminaries like Robert Redford, Elton John, John Travolta and Oprah Winfrey. The 'Bolivarian revolutionary' and his wife stayed at a room that cost 460 yankee imperialist dollars per night plus taxes that have to be paid to the imperialist state of Florida, home of the anti-Castro 'Miami Mafia.' The socialist revolutionary and defender of the Venezuelan poor classes also received a massage that cost another 271 yankee imperialist dollars at the hotel's Palazzo Spa, where rich people can receive massages with sevruga caviar, sugar cane scrubs and citrus cellulite treatments. It is not known whether Mr. Rodríguez demanded that the sugar cane had to come from Cuba, as a gesture of revolutionary solidarity with the Cuban people and its revolutionary government that Mr. Rodríguez's boss, Hugo Chavez, is trying to copy. And who paid for all this extravagance? No other than Smartmatic, the company that two months later sold to the CNE, for 26.2 million dollars, the controversial voting machines that have caused the Venezuelan opposition to to skip the parliamentary elections scheduled for Sunday December 4, because they feel that the machines are rigged to ensure a victory for Chavez's allies no matter what. Article 61 of the Anti Corruption Law of Venezuela states that any public functionary who during the performance of his official duties receives any benefits or retributions that are not due to him, should be penalized by a prison term of between one and five years and a fine equal to 50% of the value of what he received or was promised. Will Jorge Rodríguez be prosecuted by Venezuela's Attorney General? Don't count on it. As head of the CNE, Rodriguez is responsible for making sure that Hugo Chavez and his allies continue to be 'elected' no matter how many votes they get.
repeat after me... Venezimbabwe
When do the massive purges and nationalizations take place??
LOL, I still can't get over these commies... a dictatorship is 'for the people' my bright white butt
The red tide is rising fast!
"Reminds one of what Caesar did when had the Senate declare him Dictator... and we know what happened to him."
Guess Chavez doesnt get HBO ;)
The nationalizations have been happening since he was originally elected, the purges come now that he has his puppet legislature to back his every move unopposed.
The private news media will be among the first to be nationalized
Opposition deputies and some analysts predict that government deputies will call for a national referendum that could allow Chávez to run for a third consecutive term. The president has said he wants to remain in power through at least 2021.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534759/posts#6
This is it. We are going to need to have a plan to liberate Venezuela from Socialists by force.
I saw a documentary on TV a couple of years ago, set in another South American socialist paradise, can't remember where it was, might have been Argentina. A manufacturing plant had been closed down, the filthy capitalists running it didn't pay the workers enough, so they went out on strike. Permanently. The investors left. There was no welfare. The families lived in abject poverty. The men went back to the factory, started the machines, began to produce whatever it was...and had to find a market for their goods, establish credit, spend money on maintenance, become responsible for the operation of the venture...and one day, they woke up.
They had become what they professed to hate. EMPLOYERS!
How many years does it take for a country under a dictator to grind to a halt? Until they shoot him or he dies?
I'm not sure if it is the water or climate's fault, but it seems that Latin America has a more than average share of banana dictators. And we can't blame it all on the metizoes or pure Indian politicians - our old friend Fidel, for instance, is ethnically as European as Jacques Chiraq.
Day by day, these tinpot dictators are just laughing stocks, if not for the Western Left treating them seriously, that they sit squarely above precious resources (oil or Venezuela, agriculture for Argentina, and nranium and developed industrial infrastructures for Brazil), or they actively befriend/ally with some countries that could/will/alreadt pose serious threats to the West.
It need not to go this way. In the early 20th century Argentina had similar incomes, infrastructures, and per capita income as Australia. And look at Arhentina today...it is on the verge of joining the Third World. Had they not embarked on the typical Latin American pattern of misrule, it could now be a Spanish-speaking Australia, a shinning example for the Hispanic nations that will even exceed the achievements of Chile on out real world. Oh well, that's life.
Nope. Never elected Chancellor, he was appointed to that position by President Von Hindenberg, who lived to regret it.
Nobody listens to me.
"Oh how uncivilized" they tittered as they wet their lacy drawers at the very thought, "He was elected! They can't break the law."
Limp wristed namby-pamby useless brain dead twits.
I know who NOT to call on to defend civilization
President for Life Chavez will be room temperature quite soon I suspect.
Wrong.
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