So here we are, the day after the referendum in Venezuela. The NO votes won. I applaud the citizens of the great nation of Venezuela for refusing to go along and allow Hugo Chavez to be president for life. However, I admire President Chavez for accepting the vote of the people. In Venezuela, we a true democracy where the people decide.
Looking back at all the criticism from the Bush and Cheney gang, they all look foolish. Just yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld implied Chavez was a "tyrant," aiming to undermine democracy in Venezuela.
As I blogged on this Rumsfeld piece yesterday, the true tyrant is Bush. Consider that it was not Chavez who tried to aid a coup against American democracy, but it was Bush who tried to overthrow Chavez in 2002, notwithstanding that Chavez was democratically elected by the Venezuelan people. It was not Chavez who opened Guantanamo, it was Bush. It is not Chavez who refuses to say if waterboarding is torture, it is Bush.
The lesson of yesterday in Venezuela is that Hugo Chavez, for all his blustering and name-calling, is the true proponent of democracy. And Bush is democracy's nemesis.
Monday, December 3, 2007
WHO IS TRUE DEFENDER OF DEMOCRACY/ BUSH OR CHAVEZ?
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As the author of the Chavez photo I urge you to remove it immediately from your blog since you got no consent to publish it.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteFirst, thanks for bringing to this editor's attention the need to obtain permission first from owners of photos who post their works on Flickr. On this photo, I did give credit to whom I thought was the owner. However, I did not realize the requirement to obtain permission. Second, I took down the photo and will always in the future first obtain permission directly from the owner.
Roberto Antonio