By way of Cox and Forkum, this story from FoxNews: Chavez Proposes Referendum to Stay President Until 2031.
President Hugo Chavez said that if opposition parties boycott December's presidential election he would call a referendum asking voters to decide whether he should govern Venezuela for the next 25 years.
Speaking Saturday at a stadium packed with supporters in central Lara state, Chavez rejected allegations he was a power-hungry tyrant but said he might seek to extend his rule beyond current term limits if the opposition pulls out of the presidential vote, as it did last year's congressional election. ...
The Venezuelan Constitution allows a president to be re-elected only once in immediate succession. Chavez is eligible for re-election to another six-year term in December, but if he wins he wouldn't be able to run again in 2012.
And if you drop in at Cox and Forkum, you'll see this companion story from Moscow News, or MosNews: Venezuela is buying oil from Russia due to shortfalls in supply and gross mismanagment of resources. Chavez purges and mismanagement have also caused a 60% decline in oil production.
Let's not forget our lefty friends who claim that buying CITGO gas is funding a "democratic revolution." More like funding another Marxist despot for life, but again, it comes down to definitions. When the left says "democratic" think Marxist dictatorship.
And of course our lefty friends were insisting that Chavez, the man of the people, will use his petrodollars to alleviate hunger and poverty! Well, if you kill the goose that lays the golden egg, how many eggs will you have?
Not to worry lefties. When Chavez wrecks his economy and decimates the rain forest you can find some way of blaming it all on the Western imperialism that "made him do it."
More on Chavez's "democratic revolution" here.
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