This piece was reprinted by OpEd News with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
Capriles urges privatize, privatize, privatize. Transform social Venezuela into a "free market" paradise. Abolish free education, healthcare, subsidized food and housing, as well as other basic rights and services mattering most.
Open Venezuela's economy to plunder. Give domestic and foreign corporations free access. Cut taxes for business and super-rich elites already with too much. Institutionalize corruption, rigged elections, and police state harshness for nonbelievers.
Let popular needs go begging. Shift wealth entirely to Venezuela's 1%. To hell with those most in need. Tolerate no resistance. Shut down independent media so no public information tells them how bad things are and what's planned.
Support American imperialism. Perhaps give Washington basing rights. Back the worst of Israeli crimes. Turn social Venezuela into dystopian hell.
Guess what Venezuelans prefer. Guess how they'll vote on Sunday. On October 5, over three million flooded Caracas streets. They came to support Chavez. He urged them to come, saying:
"On Thursday, everybody should be in Caracas so the city overflows with the Bolivarian avalanche." Despite heavy rain they came.
Turnout perhaps was the highest in Venezuela's history. Nothing anywhere matched it in America. Estimates of up to 500,000 came for Martin Luther King's historic August 28, 1963 "I have a dream" speech.
Rarely anywhere do a 100,000 turn out except for football. Chavistas came en masse because it matters. Americans stay home or go shopping.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
2
2
1
