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  • Carter's Chavezuela

    06/01/2007 6:35:59 AM PDT · by Kitten Festival · 11 replies · 575+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | 1 June 2007 | Staff
    Leadership: As unrest over freedom's end grows in Venezuela, out comes Jimmy Carter's Center, expressing "concern." That's rich. Carter played a leading role in trashing the press there, making dictatorship possible. Jimmy Carter often wins praise as an international mediator, but it was precisely his mediation in two events in August 2004 that led to the turmoil now seen across Venezuela. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets crying "freedom" for two reasons: they're ruled by a dictator who's gathering absolute power, and they can't even complain because he's effectively ended free speech. On May 27, dictator...
  • Hugo Chavez Wants Your VoteVenezuela’s potential takeover of U.S. voting machines

    03/27/2006 9:45:25 PM PST · by Jo Nuvark · 40 replies · 1,151+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | 3-27-06 | A.M. Mora y Leon
    Hugo Chavez wants your vote Looking for something to be alarmed about? Forget Dubai. Try Venezuela’s potential takeover of the U.S. voting apparatus. A secretive, intransparent company called ‘Smartmatic’ that’s known to have ties to the Venezuelan government, has just bought a U.S. voting machine company called Sequoia. And the deal has gotten no scrutiny from federal regulators, who cite outdated criteria for national military security as their only watchpoint. That’s right, Venezuela, a country that holds the dirtiest, filthiest most intransparent and fraudulent elections in the hemisphere, elections that match those of Zimbabwe or Belarus, has just got its...