One of Chavez' greatest achievements is that it's almost totally irrelevant to the future of Venezuela what people in the United States think about him.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:15 PM, michael perelman < [email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Doug, but, please Steve. Lay off on this. > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Steve Diamond <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So, just so I understand, Doug, you acknowledge then that authoritarian > > measures were real but they were justified because of US pressure on the > > regime? > > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Mar 5, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Steve Diamond <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > In any case perhaps post Chavez a genuine democratic politics can > emerge > >> > in Venezuela. > >> > >> Oh lordy, this. > >> > >> All you left purists who think Chavez was so nasty. You try running a > >> revolutionary state. Reduce poverty, keep the electricity running, avoid > >> CIA-backed bourgeois counterrevolution. Yeah, sure. > >> > >> Doug > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pen-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Stephen Diamond > > Associate Professor of Law > > Santa Clara University School of Law > > Office: (408) 554-4813 > > Fax: (408) 868-9173 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA > 95929 > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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