On Sunday, the people of Venezuela will make a very consequential decision. See Roger Cohen's article:
"Venezuelans will vote Sunday in a referendum that would remove all limits on presidential re-election, grant Chávez direct control over foreign currency reserves, allow him to censor the media under a state of emergency declarable at his discretion, expand his powers to expropriate private property and create the second formally socialist nation in the Americas alongside Fidel’s.
"Venezuelans will vote Sunday in a referendum that would remove all limits on presidential re-election, grant Chávez direct control over foreign currency reserves, allow him to censor the media under a state of emergency declarable at his discretion, expand his powers to expropriate private property and create the second formally socialist nation in the Americas alongside Fidel’s.
“The measures amount to a constitutional coup,” said Teodoro Petkoff, who edits an opposition newspaper. Certainly, they would prod Venezuela from an oppressive rule comparable to Mexico’s under its once impregnable Institutional Revolutionary Party toward the dictatorial absolutism of Cuba."
I don't know what will happen. I don't know how reliable the polls are.
See Simon Romero's In Chávez Territory, Signs of Dissent! See Why I Parted Ways With Chávez by Raúl Isaías Baduel, the commander in chief of the Venezuelan Army from 2004 until July!
Here is the big question. Let's say that Chavez loses, which is possible according to some polls. Will he accept the results? Will he go after the journalists and protesters?
A Chavez victory will be a major headache for his neighbors and the US, specially if he decides to buy those submarines from Russia.
A Chavez defeat will send a signal that Latin America has turned the corner and rejects populism.
Say "no" to Chavez!
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