Chavez Rides High In Public Poll (77% Approval Rating)

[Fidel]

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Caracas: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is riding high in the public approval ratings, while the country remains divided over the benefits of living in a socialist state, a survey published in newspapers has said.

A whopping 77 per cent of those questioned approved of Chavez's handling of the presidency, while 53.5 per cent view the situation in Venezuela positively, according to the survey by the private Venezuelan Institute of Analysis and Data.

The poll found that 40.3 per cent have a negative outlook on the country's situation, 53.5 per cent think it will improve in two years, 22 per cent see no change while 23.7 per cent expect it to deteriorate. As for living in a socialist state, 39.4 per cent think it is good or very good, while 35.1 per cent said it was bad or very bad.

Questioned about life in a capitalist state, respondents were evenly divided. Chavez, a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro, said the poll results showed that Venezuelans were gaining more insight into his socialist policy. "The polls say that the acceptance of my approach on the need to discuss and build a road toward socialism...each day this call is being better understood," the leftist leader said on his radio and television broadcast "Hello President."


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[eek.]

And the higher the oil price goes, the more cash he has to spend.

arty:

 

[Hobbes]

Cuban style Socialism is so money...

 

[Redneckman]

I figured Eek would show up in a pro socialism thread, and sure enough.

 

[docmercer--banned]

77% .... that is nearing the mark of the % of Americans that disapprove of King George!

 

[Fidel]

That's the ironic part as many people that disaprove of Bush in our country approve of Chavez in his, and the Bush regime is trying to overthrow this guy. What losers and hipocrites.

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=+1]Maybe it's the oil ?[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So why, with a huge majority of the electorate behind him, twice in elections and in a referendum, is Hugo Chavez in hot water with that great lover of democracy, George W Bush ? Maybe it's the oil. Lots of it. Chavez sits atop a reserve of crude that rivals the oil fields of Iraq. While in control of the OPEC secretariat, Chavez signed a deal with then US President Bill Clinton, on the price of oil. A 'Goldilocks' plan. The price would be neither too low, nor too high; just right, kept between $20 and $30 a barrel. Chavez had the unmitigated gall to pour millions of oil money into making life better for the poor.[/font][/font]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So the Bush-Cheney campaign to "Floridate" the will of the Venezuela electorate was set in action. Secret contracts to steal official Venezuela voter lists, and cash passed discreetly from the US taxpayer via the so-called 'Endowment for Democracy,' to the Chavez-haters running the "recall" election. [/font][/font]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]While George Bush can appoint the government of Iraq and call it "sovereign," the government of Venezuela is appointed by its people. And most of the people of Venezuela look in the mirror and see, like Chavez, someone "negro e indio ". [/font][/font]

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Let's face it, the rich hate Chavez.[/font][/font]