Yours Forever, Hugo
Chavez says he could govern until 2027.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he could continue governing until 2027 if voters do away with re-election limits because he needs more time in office to establish a socialist economic model in Venezuela.
He has previously said he could stay on as president until 2021 if his proposed constitutional reforms - which among other changes would eliminate presidential term limits, letting him run as many more times as he wants - are approved.
"I need more time in the presidency to finish this. We are only beginning," he said on his weekly radio and television program, "Maybe until 2020 or 2027. I'd be old if I'm still alive."
His proposals would also extend presidential terms from six to seven years, and empower neighborhood-based assemblies called "communal councils."
-----Hahahahahaha. It never fails - a little power is intoxicating. Does Chavez have to be so obvious about it? Hasn't he learned the real power is to rule from behind the scenes? Oh wait, hmmm, maybe Hugo is not the real power in Venezuela.
Question - Even with constitutional reform to eliminate term limits - what makes Hugo think he will win every election for the next 20 years? And in every Latin American country I've seen - "communal councils" quickly become nothing more than servants reporting to the State on anyone with even a hint of discontent with national leaders.
Chavez is so Somoza, but trying to appear Sandinista-ish.
2 comments:
I keep hoping Chavez is the real thing, and then he goes and says something like this. But I guess there's something of the megalomaniac in most leaders.
I too, hoped Chavez was genuine, but I don't believe he is.
The only genuine revolution of the people I've witnessed in my lifetime were the Sandinistas, Ortega, Borge, etc. Nearly the entire country backed that revolution - and the US slowly ground it to a halt.
The new and improved Ortega is likely something different from what I knew back when.
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