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Everyone is automatically registered to vote from birth. It's constitutionally mandated. National standards apply.
In America, it's worlds different. States make their own laws. They decide who's enfranchised and who's not. Jim Crow lives. Minorities are lawlessly stricken from polls. So are others power brokers want removed.
In all areas of Venezuelan governance, reform remains a work in progress. In America, it's a four-letter word. It's doublespeak baloney to change things but leave them the same.
The spirit of Venezuela's Bolivarian Constitution is stated straightaway in its Preamble:
It's "to establish a democratic, participatory and self-reliant, multiethnic and multicultural society in a just, federal and decentralized State that embodies the values of freedom, independence, peace, solidarity, the common good, the nation's territorial integrity, comity and the rule of law for this and future generations."It further "guarantees the right to life, work, learning, education, social justice and equality, without discrimination or subordination of any kind; promotes peaceful cooperation among nations and further strengthens Latin American integration in accordance with the principle of nonintervention and national self-determination of the people, the universal and indivisible guarantee of human rights, the democratization of imitational society, nuclear disarmament, ecological balance and environmental resources as the common and inalienable heritage of humanity;"""
Language like this in America is unimaginable in any form. In Venezuela, it's more than words. It's Chavez's commitment to all Venezuelans. It's embodied under nine Title headings and 350 Articles.
It's a first class democratic document. Venezuelans cherish it for good reason. It's little known in the West. Media scoundrels never discuss it.
America is worlds apart. Rule of law justice doesn't exist. Money power decides policy. Police state authority enforces it. Step out of line and taste its viciousness. Mercy isn't in its vocabulary. Nor is assuring right over wrong.
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