Venezuela Re-elects Chavez

J.J. Jackson* | December 4, 2006

Perhaps you thought that the fall of the Soviet Union meant the end of the left wing communist and socialist threat to America and the rest of the free world? Think again.

VENEZUELA’S President Hugo Chavez has won a resounding re-election victory, setting the scene for a promised “deepening” of his socialist revolution and a broader role as leftist lightning rod on the world stage.
With nearly 80 per cent of ballots counted, Mr Chavez had 61 per cent of the vote, to 38 per cent for his rival, Manuel Rosales, election officials said.

The victory would further Latin America’s move to the left after wins by five other left-leaning candidates in the region in little more than a year.

There will always be threats from governments large and small who think that confiscating private property and instituting left wing policies is the way to power. When their own societies collapse they turn to gobbling up the nations around them to try and feed their starving people and bolster failing economies. And when that fails. They build up a wall and shoot anyone that tries to escape.

The Communist Manifesto

(Book)

Authors:Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia
Manufacturer:Signet Classics
Released:01 October, 1998

Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and The Challenge to the United States

(Book)

Authors:Nikolas Kozloff
Manufacturer:Palgrave MacMillan
Released:07 August, 2006

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