Tweet
Originally posted by Oerdin
Yes but the Canadian PM hasn't gone around changing the constitution, reducing the powers of parliment, dismissing judges who were appointed by previous administrations on the ground they were reactionary anti-socialists (translation: they disagreed with Chavez
), or threatened to dismiss media editors if they didn't start to print more articles that were supportive of the govenment. I also doubt Chrétien ever tried a military coupe to take power; unlike Chavez.
Yes but the Canadian PM hasn't gone around changing the constitution, reducing the powers of parliment, dismissing judges who were appointed by previous administrations on the ground they were reactionary anti-socialists (translation: they disagreed with Chavez
), or threatened to dismiss media editors if they didn't start to print more articles that were supportive of the govenment. I also doubt Chrétien ever tried a military coupe to take power; unlike Chavez.
My point was not that Chavez runs Columbia as democratically as I'd like or expect, but that if he really wanted to he could be stifling the press (especially the state-run press), something that the real dictators of SA have never been afraid to do.
He was elected democratically, and can be unelected democratically. Right now the protestors are petitioning for unconsititutional change after having failed in a coup d'état, so they aren't exactly shining models for democratic change either.
Comment