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Bolivarian governments preach Socialism but have serious democratic deficiencies
Bolivarian governments preach Socialism and work for the dispossessed but also have serious shortcomings since they ignore basic democratic standards in freedom of the press, human rights, and citizenry participation according to Norbert Neuser, member of the European Parliament. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“I dislike socialist countries, for they don't make life easier to out multinationals. So I will just demonize them as antidemocratic. Meanwhile, I will contract huge debts with authoritarian China and buy huge quantities of oil from Islamic absolutist monarchy Saudi Arabia. But I will only rarely say a word about their human rights record for I can't afford to nag with the big boys all the time.”
Sep 18th, 2010 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good dog ;-)
Sep 18th, 2010 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Buying their commodities is not the same to backing them in their policies.
Sep 20th, 2010 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You don´t need be too much clever to understand that Chavito's Gvt. and his followers (Correa, Morales, etc) are non democratics, just they say that they are.... but from saying to doing there is a long distance.
Tehy are doing the same first steps that Allende did in Chile a lot of years ago with the worst resuslts and in a faster way.
So.... R.I.P. Venezuela and followers gvts.
See Forgetit. You're a dog.
Sep 22nd, 2010 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Am I not right in thinking that it's Paraguay that is blocking Venezuela's accession to Mercosur. Keep it up, Paraguay. If you let Venezuela in, you'll just be a little voice dragged where Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela want to take you. Uruguay is already finding it has no real control in its own country.
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