Chavez

This was the last paragraph of this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/13/spain.planesales/index.html

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In notifying Spain of the decision on Thursday, the U.S. government repeated a previous Bush administration claim -- that Chavez, while democratically elected, uses his country's democratic institutions to impose authoritarian rule.
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One wonders what the Venezuellan people must think of our President's use of the "democratic" institutions at his disposal. It would not be hard, if one were to truly seek objectivity, to find a great imposition of authoritarian rule in the Bush administrations handling of:

Secret wire taps/domestic spying by the NSA
Torture and the right to no recognize the law of Congress which Bush withheld in December
The placement of John Bolton at the UN after the Senate raised many objections, and went home

can you, dear reader, name a time in the last 5 years when the President used his power to bolster the power of the people?

please read about the record of Hugo Chvez and what he has done to and for disenfranchised people in his nation.