World Challenges for the XXIst century

I have known about this case thanks to Martha Colmenares. Alexis Marrero is a well-known campaigner against Chávez and his blog (in Spanish) can be found here. Fausta has these news translated to English:

Venezuelan blogger Alexis Marrero (link in Spanish) was detained by police while putting up some posters asking people to vote NO on the upcoming constitutional referendum that would eliminate term limits on Chavez.

Martha Colmenares writes that Marrero was released later today, but has to appear in court tomorrow.

Results in the polls are not very clear but show that an important part of the Venezuelan citizens are not very happy with him. Precisely the last post written by Alexis in his blog had the title “NO wins by 17% in Carabobo“. But we have to wait till the actual referendum takes place.

Chávez is using every tactic to win, not only intimidation to the opposition. He has (again) asked the Venezuelan people to vote him for love and he has also said (link in Spanish) that he would repeat the referendum as many times as he needs to be sure this is what the Venezuelan people wants.

In the meantime, Ecuatorian mini-Chávez, Correa, has compared (link in Portuguese) Venezuelan Dictator President to Ken, Barbie’s boyfriend. It’s scary to think this people are leaders of something, much more if we think they are the leaders of their own citizens.

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