Our question is: Can Venezuela's Hugo Chavez legally takeover ports and airports?

The class struggle, both from the side of the struggle of the bourgeoisie against the people and from the side of the struggle of the people against the bourgeoisie, comes in three forms -- the political, economic, and ideological. Lenin wrote "Engels recognizes, not two forms (political and economic) of the great struggle of [the socialist movement], as is the custom among us, but three, placing the theoretical struggle on a par with the first two."

• The struggle over the ports and airports in Venezuela touches all three forms -- political, economic, and ideological --  of the class struggle. Economically, the ports and airports are key means of distribution of goods and services. Sabotage at the ports and airports can bring the whole economy to a halt.

Ideologically, a democracy, among other things, exercises power in accordance with the rule of law. On the one hand, if the opposition brainwashes a lot of people to believe that the takeover of the ports and airports by the National Government IS NOT in accordance with the rule of law, specifically with Article 164, then the opposition will be well-positioned to spread lies and calumnies that the Venezuelan state is not a democracy or, in other words, the Venezuelan state is a dictatorship. On the other hand, if the Revolution shows that the takeover of the ports and airports by the National Government IS in accordance with the rule of law, specifically with Article 156, the Revolution affirms the democratic essence and character of the Venezuelan state, preserving and increasing the credibility, legitimacy, and prestige of the Venezuelan Government and the Revolution at home and throughout the world.

Politically, the vile and degenerate US imperialists in charge of the bourgeois regime in Washington are systematically fabricating a pretext for an adventurous attempt to overthrow the democracy of the Venezuelan state and overthrow the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people. Like in Iraq, the degenerate US imperialists plan to install in Venezuela a sham or neo-colonial "democracy" that fronts for a brutal US military dictatorship. To brainwash and to warp as many US citizens as possible to accept the animalistic aggression that the US imperialists are planning and preparing against Venezuela, the US capitalist media and bourgeois US regime in Washington ceaselessly and falsely accuse the Venezuelan state of drug trafficking. This psychological warfare operation resembles the year-long campaign of lies and slanders of the US capitalist press and imperialist US regime against the people of Iraq, alleging, in that instance, filthy lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi 9/11 complicity.

• The aggression and occupation that resulted from that propaganda campaign has already occasioned the deaths of 2,000,000 Iraqi citizens, completely innocent of the filthy lies of the US imperialists about WMDs and 9/11.

The Venezuelan Government and Revolution need more time to prepare for the transparent bestiality of  US imperialists as this bestiality approaches the territorial aggression it contemplates and craves.

Taking over the ports and airports, used by the mass of the Venezuelan bourgeoisie and by US imperialists to smuggle cocaine into the USA may give the Venezuelan Revolution more time to prepare for the defense of the heroic Republic of workers and small farmers and to show the glorious US people that the degenerates and demons who compose US imperialism are full of lies, slanders, malice, and hatred: therefore, these imperial degenerates can not be trusted again by the US people ... after Iraq.