Venezuela - the most democratic nation on Earth

A_J wrote:

It's Me D wrote:

. . . there is no statistical link between his policies and the homicide statistics.

So Chavez and his Bolivarian Revolution, and its supposed reductions in poverty and inequality, has done absolutely nothing to reduce crime in Venezuela?

They have guns everywhere in Venezuela for a long time. Everyone from retired baseball players to young men and women carry pistolas in Venezuela. 

But this is not the same as murder with impunity by paramilitaries and US-backed death squads in Colombia.

M. Spector wrote:

RosaL wrote:

(I have been trying to get Telesur but it's not there tonight.)

 I've been watching Venezolano de Televisión. 

I found it. Thanks!  

Stray_J, you seem unaware that Latin America has been one vast human rights shithole off uncle Sam's back stoop for a long time. And now you expect Chavez to create paradise with the USSA trying to knock him off and funding a rightwing death squad government next door whose army has committed border incursions on neighboring countries in order to carry out assassinations of leftists? The CIA is infamous for inciting and fomenting civil society disturbances around the world, and Venezuela is not an exception. CIA spooks are all over Caracas and Cabemas posing as jehovah's and mormons. Venezuelans know who they are and point fingers at them every day.

Stockholm wrote:

"I was thinking that this is supposed to be the overall appeal of democracy, to achieve favourable results for the large majority?"

If a majority voted AGAINST Chavez - that would be just as legitimate a result. Let the majority of Venezuelans decide what is best for them. Its up to them not you.

Chavez's policies shouldn't be 100% dependent on the continuation of his personality cult. There should be other people from his movement who he grooms to succeed him so that his policies don't havw to die when he does.

Well said.