Regime calls for massive pro-Chavez rally in Caracas

[Ken Burch]

4. The word "regime" is editorializing.

Venezuela has a democratic GOVERNMENT...using the word "regime" implies that Venezuela's current power structure is inherently illegitimate...and there's no reason for anyone who isn't on the extreme right-wing to call it that. There is NOTHING illegitimate or unjust in the continuation in power of the current Venezuelan government...the people JUST RE-ELECTED IT. That should be enough until the next scheduled elections. The PSUV aren't the Albanian Communists under Enver Hoxha, for God's sake.

It's just like the old U.S. media insistence on referring to Salvador Allende as the "Marxist President" of Chile, as if the office the man had been elected to was the Marxist Presidency rather than just the plain old presidency that all his predecessors had been elected to.

I hope the pro-Chavez rally draws a large crowd...it's ghoulish that Venezuela's right-wing, largely white opposition is trying to use President Chavez' health situation to nullify the election results.

Nonetheless, if it were up to me, I'd send a judge to Havana to swear in President Chavez for his new term just to keep the political vultures away.

Shame on EVERYONE in Venezuela and all the alleged "liberals" here who are trying to take advantage of a sick, possibly dying man to force a snap election just to get their right-wing hero Capriles into office despite the fact that he just now lost. Disgusting and completely inappropriate to do so.