Will corruption and injustice gain a stranglehold
over Venezuela's misery again?
Editorial © by VHeadline.com
Editor Roy S. Carson
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
With new-found democracy and legitimacy now
fighting for its survival on political barricades in Caracas,
the question must surely be asked if truth and legitimacy is to
be allowed to win the day ... or, if Venezuela will be plunged
into yet another four decades of corruption and misery, where
more than 80% of its population has already been subjugated by
political manipulators and corrupt cliques, whose percentage is
in the lower single digits, but appears to have all the mouth
in the current media war against the democratically-elected government
of President Hugo Chavez Frias.
The question is not, or should not, be focused on the personality
of Chavez Frias, who may alternately be liked or disliked according
to the flavor of the day. The greater truth is that the President
has been elected, by a democratic majority, to serve the Venezuelan
people, and he has the clear backing of a majority in the democratically-elected
National Assembly (AN), which was itself constituted by a reform
Constitutional Assembly, which was itself ratified by an overwhelming
majority of the Venezuelan people in a National Referendum.
Chavez Frias chooses to call his specifically Venezuelan brand
of UK Tony Blair's "Third Way" socialism a "peaceful
revolution" ... it is a long and tedious battle from the
corrupt abuses and blacker excesses of old discredited Accion
Democratica (AD) and Christian Socialist (Copei), where suppression
of the news and reporting freedoms were a rule of thumb and few,
if any, Venezuelan journalists would then have dared to say even
a fraction of what is being said today in a continuous spew of
anti-government rhetoric window-dressed as freedom of expression.
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