The populace of Venezuela must be among the most naïve collection of stooges ever spawned by man. For nearly a decade, Hugo Chavez has told his followers that the US is trying to have him killed, without even the slightest shred of proof, yet his stooge-like followers continue to lap it up as if it were cotton candy.

Chavez has the pretense of used this point as a rallying cry to champion himself as the one man who can and does stand up to the Goliath that is the United States. Unlike the boy who cried wolf, Chavez continuously repeats the same worthless tirades, only to be embraced at every turn by his left leaning electorate. Chavez’s claims of being a target for assassination have enabled him to strengthen his hold on power while gradually eliminating his country’s democratic institutions. Not that Venezuela was ever a model for the rule of law.

At a recent rally in Caracas, Chavez repeated the now familiar lines, claiming to have a White House informant, who contends that President Bush has charged his underlings with assassinating Chavez before 2008.

Chavez also accused his political rivals, such as they are, with complicity in efforts to assassinate him, all of these perceived plots and schemes are designed solely to boost popular support for the Mussolini of Latin America’s efforts to change the Venezuelan constitution to allow him to remain in office until 2021 at the earliest. This is clearly the sign of one who cherishes the principles of representative government.
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