Chavez Victory: Defeat for Bush Policy

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Chavez Victory: Defeat for Bush Policy



By Marjorie Cohn
          t r u t h o u t | Perspective

          Friday 20 August 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082004A.shtml


          The Bush administration is gritting its collective teeth at the
outcome of Sunday's recall election in Venezuela, which overwhelmingly
affirmed President Hugo Chavez's tenure. If President Jimmy Carter had not
lent his enormous credibility to the election results, Bush and his minions
would surely be crying foul in unison with the opposition.

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CB: In 1979, when Carter was President, he winked at the Sandinista
insurrection in Nicaragua, allowing them to take power. There had been an
assassination of an American camera man by the Somozistas military caught on
camera and shown on U.S. television that contributed to Carter's hesitation
to act to stop the Sandinistas. In broadcasting the murder of the American
camera man, the U.S. news media was still hanging out in Viet Nam/Watergate,
relative free-style.