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To: Oblomov who wrote (59261)	4/24/2006 12:05:08 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Sarcasm should be taken in cheek. I see little difference between politicians of supposedly different strips. Continuing in same rich vein that must be mined, <<Sure, look askance from a few hundred murders and nasty political oppression>> … who got murdered, suppression of whom, through what means, and if so, why are the majority people not rising up to over-throw the man, as opposed to supporting his policies of robbing somebody to keep some and give away the rest. Are we to question democratic process or to doubt whether Chavez’s rule is less legit than others elsewhere? <<why is there such abject poverty in his own resource-rich country>> for arguments sake, let us say venezuelans are harder up than before, in the aggregate … perhaps they would be even more abject under usa-approved regime? say an undemocratic monarchy, ala Saudi Arabia, perhaps. Is Venezuela going the way of Zimbabwe or Chad? <<his policies are apparently a model of populist socialism?>> … are we to question his popularity, when he can bounce back from a coup within 24 hours? I speak to my cousins about once every two months, and they be the current disadvantaged lot of the used-to-have-more folks, and they concede, that as far as staying in power by popular demand, chavez is doing OK, as in more popular than his usa equivalent. I am not qualified to doubt the on-the-ground assessment from kin, and so I don’t. The abject-ness does create opportunities in security provision business, and so one cousin goes with the flow, while another taps the banks ... and life goes on. Raising a shadow of doubt is necessary, when the popular press may easily be wrong, again, look askance or not, because so far, as far as the popular press went, record has not been blameless. Chugs, J