Today is a good day for the new version of socialism, the 21th century socialism who is already the ideology if Bolivia and Ecuador, two countries where the abandoned poor, the workers who earned slavery wages and had no benefits, and the small and tiny middle class who had no hope, are finally VISIBLE FOR THEIR PRESIDENTS AGAIN.
Hugo Chavez won his well contested referendum for progress in Venezuela.
Update: For people who do not even know what was voted for, the people voted to ammend the Constitution so the people in government can go to reelection as much as they want to. ELECTIONS STILL HAPPEN SO THE PEOPLE CAN TAKE HIM OR ANYONE ELSE OUT OF GOVERNMENT IF THEY DONT LIKE HIM OR HER. So to call this an action of a dictator is wrong because in this country FDR did that, and it also applies to anyone in power not just the president.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
President Hugo Chávez handily won a referendum on Sunday that will end presidential term limits, allowing him to run for re-election indefinitely and injecting fresh vibrancy into his 10-year-old socialist-inspired revolution.
Venezuelans waited in line in front of a polling station to vote in a referendum in Caracas on Sunday. More Photos »
About 54.4 percent of voters supported the proposal to end term limits for all elected officials, with 45.6 percent voting against it, electoral officials said in their first report late Sunday, with nearly complete returns.
This victory was a hard fought one against the elitists classes of Venezuelan society who had governed that country for decades. Those rich inviduals have controlled the government with the help of the United States, destroying the countries middle class, leaving poor people abandoned, selling their natural resources to oil companies and rich US corporations who took 95% of their profits abroad and didnt pay taxes in those countries.
That has been the history of Latin America in the last decades, with dictators put by the US who help keep the conservative bourgeousi on power at the expense of society in general.
Nonetheless, with the elections of Chaves, Morales and Correa, we are finally recovering from the abuses commited in the past and giving people a government where they count.
This victory by Chavez today keeps the dream of a new socialism alive, where government ensures a just economy for all and doesnt sell their labor and resources to those rich corporations who want to control the world. It also keeps the desire for a UNITED LATIN AMERICA THAT WAS ENVISONED BY SIMON BOLIVAR OUR LIBERTATOR.