The Spirit of Democracy in Venezuela

By Stephen Lendman
Created Dec 8 2006 - 9:15am

"Today we gave another lesson in dignity to the imperialists, it is another
defeat for the empire of Mr. Danger....another defeat for the devil. We will
never be a colony of the US again....Long live the socialist
revolution....Destiny has been written....Socialism is human. Socialism is
love."

This is how Hugo Chavez Frias characterized his smashing electoral victory
on December 3 when he appeared on the balcony of the Palacio de Miraflores
(the official presidential palace residence) and addressed a huge gathering
of his followers below that evening telling them of his victory for the
people and that he now has an even stronger mandate to pursue his Bolivarian
Project to do more for them ahead than he's already accomplished so far
which is considerable.