[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

[MarkWar]

>Chavez and his government have slowly constricted the very constitution they had drafted...

"Papa" Monzano, he's so very bad
But without bad "Papa" I would be so sad;
Because without "Papa's" badness,
Tell me, if you would,
How could wicked old Bokonon
Ever, ever look good?

[The Calypsos, #47]

Mark W.

[El Sordo]

How low can their bonds go....

[gfactor]

the coup plotters made some very serious mistakes, which belied their ideology. one was putting a business leader in charge of a coup run by both unions and businesses. second was suspending a very legitemate constitution. thirdly was the other suspensions -- congress, the courts etc.. and fourthly, was believing their own propaganda of the lack of support for chavez and the anti-chavez stance of the oligarchacly owned media.