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Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez won a referendum, giving him the possibility of remaining in power forever. The voters abolished term limits. Chavez jubilantly declared that he would speed up "the construction of true socialism." (Would that be the socialism of North Korea? Nazi Germany? Castro's Cuba? Hoxha's Albania?) And Chavez was at his revealing best before the referendum. First, he said that Lech Walesa would not be welcome in Venezuela. Why would he? He is a trade unionist who stands for the opposite of Chavezism--specifically, liberal democracy. Chavez also abolished ...