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Chavez was elected in 1998 in a clean election[0]. He was re-elected in 2000, in an election the Carter Center found satisfactory[1]. He was once again electe
by eudox 10y ago
Chavez was elected in 1998 in a clean election[0].
He was re-elected in 2000, in an election the Carter Center found satisfactory[1].
He was once again elected in 2006, in an election EU observers found to be free and fair[2].
After three elections, I'd say the good people of Venezuela deserve to live in a filthy dump.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_election,_1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_electi...
[1]: http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/297.pdf http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/297.pdf
[2]: http://eeas.europa.eu/eueom/missions/2006/venezuela/index_en.htm http://eeas.europa.eu/eueom/missions/2006/venezuela/index_en...
- mc32 10y agoHow can it be clean when opposition newspapers are censored and opposition politicians suffer from oppression? And nevermind nationalization of the media...
- eudox 10y agoPeople vote for Communism, they get Communism. What's the problem here?
- mc32 10y agoOk, but how is that clean? Or do you mean clean relative to authoritarianism with Marxist values?
- eudox 10y agoWhat I meant up there is they had three verified fair elections to bail out, they didn't, so now their country is in ruins. Democracy has its failures, but people getting what they voted for isn't one of them.
- jakub_h 10y agoThey got communism? I don't see the classless, stateless society in Venezuela.
- vixen99 10y agoYou never will, there or anywhere else. Communism can never be classless. It always turns out to be an oligarchy in practice or in the case of Stalin, a dictatorship.
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- ytNumbers 10y agoMore recently, things have been less than free and fair. https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/venezuela https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/venezuela https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/venezuela https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/venezuela
- eudox 10y agoSo what? They sat on an ejection seat for eight years and did nothing.