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Submitted by cjt25 on January 27, 2007
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Chavez and his bolivarian Revolution
f you only listen to what the Bush administration or the corporate media have to say about what is happening in Venezuela, you probably have a distorted view of that country. What you may not know is that since 1998 seven nationwide elections and referenda have shown that support for President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian Revolution has steadily grown. His movement's reform programs, Constitutional revisions, and strong opposition to US policies in Latin America and elsewhere have seen increasing support.
Through more than six years of well-financed opposition (including millions from US sources), electoral fraud aimed at stealing elections from Chavez and his supporters, a corporate media war designed both to undermine his support and aid his ouster, the 2002 Bush-backed coup, and the US-funded recall referendum last year, President Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela have fought for an independent, anti-imperialist agenda. The goal is the basic transformation of capitalist, oligarchical Venezuela into one that belongs to the whole people.
Having wrestled political power from the ultra right oligarchs who, closely aligned with the US, were not above widespread human rights abuses, assassinations of leftist leaders, violent political repression of their opposition, and other fascist tactics to keep control over Venezuela's oil sector, Chavez began his presidency with a reform of the Constitution in 1999. Chavez rose to popular acclaim as the leader of an anti-fascist movement in the military and a symbol of reclaiming Venezuelan sovereignty in the mid-1990s. He ran his campaign in 1998 on a reform platform that promised fundamental change for Venezuela.
The new Constitution, written and adopted by a National Assembly and Constitutional Assembly composed by a large majority of his supporters (elected by the people), expanded civil rights and...
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