Fat chance, realistically, of that happening without electrified cattle-prods...
Would, indeed, that Chavez could actually do something to bring about the social and political revolution to which he originally aspired in the early days of 1999. He had promised a new era of power to the people with decisions enacted from the grassroots upwards through the already corrupt administration all the way to the top.
Some years ago, Chavez had confided to a friendly foreign visitor that his true strength was the ordinary people of Venezuela and that the intermediate layers of indolent and corrupt officialdom would die its own death as "the people" took over the management of their own rights as citizens of the republic.
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Just this past week, political (Marxist) heavyweight Alan Woods (on a visit to Venezuela) opined that Chavez is isolated by debilitating layers of impenetrable bureaucracy that must necessarily be removed before it is too late.
The solution, Woods concludes, is for the grassroots to take the power that the Constitution has entrusted to them to ensure that their exploitation and marginalization will not go unopposed.
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