Where Did Hugo’s Friends Go? The Devil Took Them!
It looks like Hugo’s friends are abandoning the sinking rat’s ship:
But MartÃnezand a handful of others who once were prominent pillars in the Chávez machine, have defected, saying approval of 69 constitutional changes would effectively turn Venezuela into a dictatorship run at the whim of one man. They have been derided by Chávez as traitors, but their unimpeachable leftist credentials have given momentum to a movement that pollsters say may deliver Chávez his first electoral defeat.
“The proposal would signify a coup d’etat,” said MartÃnez, 58, whose dapper appearance belies his history as a guerrilla and Communist Party member. “Here the power is going to be concentrated in one person. That’s very grave.”
Pollsters in Caracas say Venezuelans increasingly agree — even those who continue to support the president but say the proposed overhaul of an eight-year-old constitution goes too far.
How could this happen? How ccould the people just up and turn on him like that?
Chávez also warns that the opponents of the reforms who have been protesting in the streets are collaborating with the Bush administration to assassinate him, a frequent accusation in this politically charged country.
It all the doing of George Bush! The devil himself…
