[Cincinatus' Wife]

Lina Ron, a supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is shown during an interview with The Associated Press in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 22, 2002. Ron says she'll willingly become a martyr for Chavez's revolution, and for thousands of street toughs nationwide who follow her lead and have increasingly quashed dissent, alarming Chavez's numerous critics. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)

Chavez Marks Election Anniversary with Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement neighborhood committees

Opposition lawmakers attacked by supporters of Venezuela's President Chavez

Hugo Chavez is Castro II

April 5, 2002---- Labor Protest: Venezuela (Chavez) Vows to Keep State Oil Firm Running **** "Workers of all sectors of PDVSA are starting today a progressive, collective suspension of work in operational and administrative areas," Horacio Medina, one of the spokesmen, told reporters. He gave no details of how vital producing, refining and export operations might be affected.****

[dennisw]

Another crazy Marxist POS on a "mission from god". She sounds as mad as the Jihadists who at least among the Pallies are often chain smokers too.

[Bogie]

Block Committee, and Neighborhood Watch, have decidedly become the replacement terms for "Local Soviet" of Lenin's day.

Or, as some famous Democrat once said, I forget his name, "All politics is local."

[livius]

"Comandante" Lina Ron, who considers herself a modern version of "Tania"...

Well, there's one born every minute. And dictators certainly know how to attract them.

Aside from this rather pathetic woman's story, however, I think that Chavez is definitely using this moment - when there is unrest, but the opposition still doesn't seem to have any clear plan of how to get rid of him - to entrench himself more deeply.

Having goon squads of revolutionary " wannabees" may seem, at first glance, somewhat insignificant. But these people can nonetheless have a very paralyzing effect on dissent, if only because they manage to turn every event into chaos.

[WyldKard]

They've warned newspaper vendors in Ciudad Bolivar that they will torch kiosks unless they stop selling a newspaper, Correo del Caroni, that is critical of the government.

Thugs and opressors. These people are no different from the "facists" they claim to hate. They are just a differnt sort of "Facist".

Why is it that there is never a hardline communist "democracy" with freedom of the press or any of the other protections our "crumbling, decaying, decadent, capitalist" country enjoys? We all know the answer. Communism and the basic rights of Humanity are incompatible with each other. Communism as a system is so weak and fragile that it can not stand to be criticized. Yet our own nation appears to THRIVE through the existance of free political debate. This is not mere coincidence.

I find it highly sad, and ironic that Commie groups in America, like MIM and RAIL enjoy the Government protection that allows them to post their drek about how awful America is, and how they want to overthrow the Government...yet these people would strip away all the rights that ALL Americans enjoy, were they ever to succeed.