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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela's Chavez says cancer has returned [View all]Ash_F
(5,861 posts)are due to decades of political and economic oppression and wage slavery. Violence against workers unions, peasant farmers, student groups, you name it, it's in their history. Just like Obama, Chavez inherited a mess that will take longer than his legacy to fix.
Chavez might not be perfect but in the wake of the disastrous Perez presidency, he looks like a saint. His opponent in the last election wanted to take land from farmers and give it to English royalty. Of course Chavez won in a landslide. If the opposition wants to beat whoever ends up leading his party, they need to come up with a whole different platform, and present a whole different candidate. Not just run the best looking guy from the wealthy establishment, which is ironically what our conservatives did too.
And just like conservatives here, they probably don't think they need to change anything. The parallels between our two countries are comical.