VenEconomy is back to start the new year and -- to no one's surprise -- finds very little good news to report. On the contrary, the economic and political outlook for the country seems worse than at the close of 2008, with Hugo Chávez compounding the ills attributable to any hegemon.
Among the more outstanding new ills are that 2009 started off not only with a President storming the campaign trail to promote an unconstitutional (reelection) amendment, but with the National Electoral Council clinching its illegality by denying thousands of young Venezuelans the right to vote. Added to this presidential insistence on remaining in power, Venezuela now has a President who is no longer content to foster political discrimination and class strife, but has now seen it fit to promote racial and religious hatred, something that is totally foreign to Venezuela.
Today Venezuela , a country where people of all races and creeds have lived in harmony, watches -- much to its embarrassment -- as its government undertakes a vile campaign against the Jewish people. Chávez, automatically siding with the terrorist group Hamas, is taking his anti-Semitism to levels equal to that of Adolf Hitler. In justifying Hamas, he ignores the fact that, for the past two years, Israel has been putting up with daily bombings from the Gaza Strip and that no negotiation efforts have managed to get Hamas to stop its attacks on an entire population. How would Chávez's have reacted if someone had been bombing Maracaibo for two years nonstop from Curacao?
To top it all, this year also started with more attacks on the freedom of expression. Globovisión was on the receiving end of fierce attacks by one of the Chavista shock groups, “ La Piedrita ” from 23 de Enero.
Chávez himself put the finishing touches to this campaign of aggression when, in a nationwide networked broadcast and on his Sunday program Aló Presidente , he gave Globovisión 's director, Federico Alberto Ravell, and a group of political leaders an irrational verbal lashing, subjecting them to public derision. These hatreds and divisions that the powers that be wish to impose on Venezuelans have their origins in Norberto Ceresole, a radical anti-Semite and Chavez teacher, who laid the foundations of Chavismo.
Chávez is convinced that hatred, conflict, and confrontation favor his cause and will guarantee his remaining in power for life. VenEconomy calls on Venezuelans not to respond to this provocation and to consider saying No to the amendment to be their bounden duty.
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