Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution made its official debut in March of 2000 when a Fifth Republic was created based on a new constitution. Though its passage was a priority for a recently elected president Chavez, he soon grew tired of its limitations and sought to amend it via referendum on two occasions. After losing a vote to amend 67 articles in 2007, he tried again in 2009 with a single article on the issue that mattered most to him: no term limits for any elected office.
Feb 28, 2008
Venezula is exciting
Following events in Venezuela is exciting. You have to wait a few days at times. But like the Perito Moreno glacier in Patagonia, it never fails to satisfy with a satisfying crack, thump, and splash. It is like watching putrefaction take over in dead bodies or a forest fire that threatens to take all your friends homes. Venezuela is a political disaster zone which mixes the best of cop shows like "Bad Boys" with the quiet marvel of "The Blue Planet" episode where an entire ecosystem is described in concentric circles of hunters and prey. Venezuela is all that is horrible in politics and a lot of what is good. It is a story which cannot possibly resolve itself in any satisfactory way because the moral of good an evil is too important to tell. It is a fiasco front loaded into a mass of mediocrity, basted by class resentment and toasted with hickory chips of hate. It is spectacle and it is tragedy. It is time wasted, lives lost and an acid trip to hell.