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Challenging Chavez.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
NATIONAL REVIEW does its readers a great disservice by publishing "The Chavez Challenge" by Mark Falcoff (August 29). Many of his basic facts are incorrect, and his conclusions do not follow from his own reporting.
Minimizing the authoritarian nature of the Venezuelan regime, Falcoff states that Hugo Chavez has "not even bothered building a political party of his own." Since 1998, Chavez has run a colossal party called the Movimiento Quinta Republica (MVR). Its members currently control the National Assembly and the majority of elected offices; the party chairman is Chavez himself. The manifest fraud in the recent referendum, which was also ignored by Falcoff, has made the MVR supreme.
Falcoff inaccurately states that the Venezuelan government is "toying" with a new media law. The "media contents bill" became law in 2004. Moreover, the new criminal code makes insulting Chavez punishable by 6 to 30 months in prison: There are numerous reporters and broadcasters currently facing charges. Falcoff considers Chavez a character in a comic opera, an "unpleasant fever that will eventually pass ... in some years, perhaps even decades"; and the effects of his rule are "merely a moderate inconvenience for the United States." Chavez is not a caricature. He is a vicious killer of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Challenging Chavez.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)