January 11, 2007

OPTION THREE SOUNDS FINE:

Chavez Would Abolish Presidential Term Limit: 'We Are Going to Deepen This Revolution,' Venezuelans Told at Swearing-In Ceremony (Juan Forero, January 11, 2007, Washington Post)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, sworn in to another six-year term on Wednesday, said he would seek a constitutional amendment that could extend his tenure as he hastens his country's transformation into what he calls "21st-century socialism."

In a three-hour discourse in the National Assembly that received widespread news coverage across Latin America, Chavez promised that "we are going to radicalize this process of ours, we are going to deepen this revolution."

Invoking the mantra once issued by his mentor and ally, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Chavez said the choice for Venezuela was clear: "Fatherland, socialism or death."


Now that he's dropped even the pretenses of democracy will his dupes on the Left acknowledge we need to back a coup?

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 11, 2007 8:02 AM
Comments

OJ,

Coup? The left won't be happy until they install a Chavez here in the US.

Posted by: Bruno at January 11, 2007 9:02 AM

Time to bulk-mail the visas to Venezuela's women. And their plastic surgeons.

Posted by: Brad S at January 11, 2007 10:10 AM

When he goes to Cuba for Castro's funeral, shoot down his plane.

Our planes can shoot things from 100 miles away so there can be "plausible deniability".

Just don't let the CIA get involved! We'll never get rid of him.

Posted by: Bob at January 11, 2007 10:23 AM

This is what happens when you let Jimmy Carter 'certify' an election.

Posted by: Gideon at January 11, 2007 11:04 AM

Too late. The morons had him taken out, but didn't have the resolve to finish what they'd started. What's the old line about nothing being more dangerous than pointing a loaded gun that you won't actually use?

Posted by: b at January 11, 2007 11:46 AM
In a three-hour discourse in the National Assembly [...]

It's a nice effort, but he's gonna have to speak longer than that if he wants to be just like Castro.

Posted by: Matt Murphy at January 12, 2007 2:08 AM
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