After Thursday’ opposition march Presient Hugo Chavez will hold his own today. So far, it looks to be about 5% the size of Thursday’s march. That march showed the international community that there is real, strong opposition to Hugo Chavez. To have 1.2 million people peacefully demonstrate while the Government threatens, mobilizes troops and claims it is all part of a coup attempt, is a victory for the opposition. Let’s see what that pseudo-Democrat (pseudo-fascist?) Hugo Chavez did yesterday (page D-4), for those that believe that we have to wait until his term ends, because the Constitution needs to be respected:
In a six hour (!!) speech on TV, Chavez spent most of his time encouraging his supporters to participate in his party’s march, talking about the “coup” that was aborted on Thursday (??) and the “hidden agenda” of the march. Somehow, it seems to me to have been the opposite. The Governemnt claimed all along there was a hidden agenda and a coup, but a huge crowd, marched peacefully asking Chavez to resign and/or hold elections. By the way, to have 1.2 million people march in a city with less than 5 million is in itself quite remarkable.
Now comes Chavez’ statements from yesterday’s TV speech:
“we were ready to cut off the signal of TV channels” given the suspicion that that there was a plot to repeat what happened in April. “There were motives”, Chavez said, with what they did like the transmission of what a military officer said the day before”. He accused (page A-1) TV stations of transmitting false images of Thursday’s march and showed an amateur video in which few peopel are visible at the march. (I was there I couldn’t move!!!). He said they had people at the transmission anntenas to cut off all the signals and “in other places, because they have hidden places from which they can transmit, we have them located, I don’t know if all of them, but almost all”. He said that TV stations had a concessions that the State gives them, but “if you dont follow the Constitution and the law, I can have it removed”. Thus, “anytime this happens these channels could be deactivated or retired from the air”
Now, I would like to know what happen to due process, the Constitution and such things? Where is the Carter Center, the OAS and Human Rights Watch today? Is Chavez a Dictator that he can decide on these issues on his own? He definitely seems to think so. He violates the Constitution daily and nothing happens (more on that in a later post). International support in the last few months certainly has helped him in mantaining this dictatorial bent. Anyone that thinks that I am exaggerating should read today’s statements by a General that was until that day considered a Chavez supporter (page D-5), about what happened before and on April 11th. If this is no proof that the deaths of April 11th. were the responsability of the Chavez Governmenet I dont know what is.
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