Disillusioning Lefties
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Chávez is here to stay!"
Just another march through Caracas by Chávez supporters? Not quite. These chants were heard inside the first session of the year of Venezuela's supreme court. Towards the end of a long speech by the supreme court president, Omar Mora Díáz, in which he condemned the partisanship of the courts under the 4th republic and acclaimed the independence and impartiality of the judiciary in today's 5th republic, the audience reacted with cheers and cries of the above chant ("Uh! Ah! Chávez no se va!" - in Spanish) and were joined by the members of the supreme court, who rose to their feet, clapping and chanting, "hey! hey! hey! Chávez is here to stay!"
Unthinkable in any democratic country you'd care to live in. Not so in Venezuela, which went through the looking-glass quite a while back, unfortunately. Now the fun starts as we get to watch first world lefties bending over backwards to justify such gross flaunting of impartiality by the highest judicial power in Venezuela. Yes, that's right: the one that's supposed to keep the executive branch in check!!!
Hat tip: Caracas Chronicles
For those of you not nauseated by the right-wing reputation of Foreign Policy magazine, here's quite a good, compact article from the Jan/Feb issue on why Venezuela under Chávez is not a functioning democracy:
Hugo Boss
Just another march through Caracas by Chávez supporters? Not quite. These chants were heard inside the first session of the year of Venezuela's supreme court. Towards the end of a long speech by the supreme court president, Omar Mora Díáz, in which he condemned the partisanship of the courts under the 4th republic and acclaimed the independence and impartiality of the judiciary in today's 5th republic, the audience reacted with cheers and cries of the above chant ("Uh! Ah! Chávez no se va!" - in Spanish) and were joined by the members of the supreme court, who rose to their feet, clapping and chanting, "hey! hey! hey! Chávez is here to stay!"
Unthinkable in any democratic country you'd care to live in. Not so in Venezuela, which went through the looking-glass quite a while back, unfortunately. Now the fun starts as we get to watch first world lefties bending over backwards to justify such gross flaunting of impartiality by the highest judicial power in Venezuela. Yes, that's right: the one that's supposed to keep the executive branch in check!!!
Hat tip: Caracas Chronicles
For those of you not nauseated by the right-wing reputation of Foreign Policy magazine, here's quite a good, compact article from the Jan/Feb issue on why Venezuela under Chávez is not a functioning democracy:
Hugo Boss
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