Venezuelans protest Chavez's new socialist push

Yahoo News ^ | 08/06/08 | IAN JAMES

[KevinDavis]

CARACAS, Venezuela - Riot police used tear gas Wednesday to block hundreds of Venezuelans protesting the latest moves by President Hugo Chavez to concentrate his power. The demonstrators said a blacklist of opposition candidates and a series of socialist decrees are destroying what's left of their democracy.

Though the protest of about 1,000 people chanting "freedom!" was small compared to past marches, there is a growing public outcry over the sidelining of key government opponents ahead of state and local elections in November.

[KevinDavis]

Well this is what could happen here is BO wins..

[KarlInOhio]

Well they shouldn't have voted Chavez into office .... er, uh, they shouldn't have had Jimmy Carter come in, ignore the evidence and tell the Venezuelans that they voted Chavez into office.

[InvisibleChurch]

I wonder how much “change” Hugo promised?

[Tzimisce]

It’s really hard to feel sorry for these people. I wrote countless blogs warning them about Chavez and I got flamed and hate mail. I told them Chavez would hammer all this stuff through anyway when it was voted down. And I was mocked and impuned.

This is the inevitable conclusion of voting for left wing extremists - look at what Madame Pelosi has done to the House.

[rfp1234]

Socialism is on the run in several countries, including France, Italy, Japan, S. Korea, Germany, and most of Eastern Europe. It would be ironic if Hussein Obambi propped it up in the U.S., of all places.

[rfp1234]

Socialism is on the run in several countries, including France, Italy, Japan, S. Korea, Germany, and most of Eastern Europe. It would be ironic if Hussein Obambi and his commie pals propped it up in the U.S., of all places whole Western Hemisphere.

[ari-freedom]

the “other” guy wasn’t conservative enough so they are waiting for the next reagan

[ari-freedom]

then and there
“We’ll survive 4 years of Hugo Chavez”
here and now
“we’ll survive 4 years of Obama”

[bamahead]

Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.

[Nextrush]

The people voted against Chavez in the referendum last year, now he has gone ahead and done what they voted against by decree.

Chavez wants to be the next Fidel real bad....

[marron]

Venezuelans have lost their country.

So now the question is, what is it going to take to get it back?

[onedoug]

Ask a democrat.

[dfwgator]

Pretty soon the rest of South America will lose theirs, just as with Hitler, whose ambitions were bigger than just Germany.