Venezuela continues to be in the spotlight of the media, both traditional and non-traditional:
-Not very happy with the New York Times opinion piece which includes this:
“As long as Mr. Chávez continues to abide by the rules of
Venezuela‘s constitutional democracy, his opponents are
obliged to do the same”
Where have they been?
-I had missed, this article in the L.A. Times which has this sentence that I wished more papers had repeated:
“Representatives from the Organization of American States and the Atlanta-based Carter Center, who observed the December signature-gathering, disagree with the council. To these experienced observers the signatures looked individual. They say no irregularities were reported during the gathering process”
-As well as The Miami Herald, which gives very clear examples of the type of stuff we have been dealing with, including why Venezuelans are so outraged:
“The populist leader has marked his presidency with a series of rulings, decrees, rhetoric and maneuvers that bent the rules of the game to his advantage — but mostly managed to avoid openly breaking them.”
-Finally, the blog world also recognizes our crisis, blogger Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, one of the most read blogs around, has made reference to Venezuela for the third time in ten days, with a crushing verdict:
VENEZUELA: Chavez is not only crushing civil rights, but is ruling outside the law.
He’s a dictator.
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