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In reply to the discussion: Chavez's socialist rule at risk as Venezuelans vote [View all]Justina For Justice
(94 posts)President Chavez just won re-election to another six year term, 55% to 45%, in a voting system which former U.S. President, Jimmie Carter, recently called the best in the world. President Cart has spent years monitoring international elections and evaluating voting systems. In comparison, he finds the U.S.'s voting system to be horrible.
President Chavez has brought real democracy to the neighborhood level in Venezuela and improved the lives of millions of people who now have universal health care, universal free education to the doctoral level, and government guaranteed nutrition and housing.
Americans desperately need similar programs since they have been driven into poverty by our inequitable economic system.
Our U.S state department and their corporate friends in the media call President Chavez a dictator, not because he is a dictator but because he is a world leader who will submit to their imperialist policies. They demonize President Chavez because they fear that Americans might demand the same socialist programs that are working so effectively here in Venezuela.
It is really shameful that that some would-be progressives in the U.S. believe the nonsense that is spouted about Chavez and his government by the U.S. media. Maybe they simply don't understand how distorted our news is. I'm an American who has been living and teaching in Venezuela for the past five years. I have observed that U.S. press reporting about Venezuela bears no relation whatever to the truth about life in Venezuela.