Re: [Marxism] Miskito leaders seek independence at the Hague courts (2 & last)

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, if Chavez plays his cards right, enough to offset the different
international context, it could instead be the shadow of the '84 Nicaraguan
election, which the FSLN ran as a popular mobilization and consultation
(town-hall meetings, door-to-door canvassing, strong empowerment
message...), and won, that hangs over Nicaragua. Of course Reagan rejected
it as "fraudulent." (The '90 election was run as more of a traditional
election campaign, with Ortega appearing under the slogan of the "fighting
cock," driving around in a limousine and shaking hands, and with a strong
paternalistic message directed at a more traditional electorate.) Chavez is
in much better economic shape than the Sandinistas were in '90 and doesn't
have a decade of devastating U.S. aggression behind him. Of course, this
isn't the whole picture, but I'm hopeful for Chavez.

Mike


> The shadow of that 1990 Nicaraguan election certainly does
> hang over today's Venezuela, so the questions which were
> posed by Bendana are worth considering seriously and being
> responded to by more knowledgeable people than I am.
>
>
> Walter


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