Good editorial in today’s front page of El Universal entitled “Another Stage”. I particularly enjoyed the comparison between the effort by Venezuela’s opposition to gather the signatures and that of Californians, since one still hears people both here and abroad (and in this page!) trying to minimize the meaning and magnitude of the democratic effort by the Opposition in Venezuela. The numbers are indeed impressive. Here is the translation of that particular paragraph:
If anyone had doubts about the dimension of this democratic success, sufficient to compare those 3.5 million signatures subscribed in four days under all forms of obstacles and intimidations, both physical and material, as well as formal-read the CNE regulations-with the 1.6 million signatures, that a well financed and organized opposition like that in California, gathered in a universe of 15 million registered voters (12 million in Venezuela), in three and a half months of uninterrupted effort to summons and succesfully recall former Governor G. Davis.
Well said!
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