Hugo is the boss

The Venezuelan opposition has entitled to herself, and now says that the parliamentary elections are undemocratic yesterday in Venezuela, elections were held in the country's single -fed parliament. The results will be known tonight. But one thing is already clear: the vast majority of places will be occupied by supporters of the charismatic leader of Hugo Chavez. And the point is not threats with physical reprisal: the opposition simply came to self. We will immediately answer the legitimate question: why does the Russian know about the elections in distant Venezuela? We come pragmatic. Venezuela Hugo Chavez is our mouthpiece in Latin America. Venezuela is one of a little oil powers taking into account our interests. Venezuela is a stronghold of the left movement so relevant now in Russia. Simply put, the better the Ugel Chavez, the better Moscow and the worse Washington.

In the Venezuela parliament, or rather, in the National Assembly, 165 places plus three, reserved for representatives of the indigenous population of the American continent, that is, Indians.

The five main opposition parties were self -fraught with last week. Like, why participate in the elections, if the results are still a foregone conclusion? As an example, the opposition leaders gave last year's referendum, which raised the question of finding Chavez as a position. The people voted for Hugo. The opponents of the leader said that in fact the results were faked. At the same time, the election commission allowed representatives of the opposition to personally count 47% of the ballots, and independent international observers from the organization of American states refuted rumors about falsification.

Now everything returns to its own. The opposition is being stumbled, and its journalists report that the elections cannot be considered democratic. “Elections without opposition and with a small participation of voters are not good for anyone. Certainly either for the government that should evaluate their anti -democratic impact,” wrote the editor -in -chief of the local newspaper Talcual Theodor Petkoff.

Hugo Chavez in his manner, publicly and emotionally answered the accusations. "These small parties arranged a large show ... They are just pawns in the hands of imperialists. There is no political crisis in Venezuela," the president said live on the national television channel. He attributed the boycott of the opposition to political technologists from Washington. As an example, he cited last year's coup to Haiti, as a result of which the Anti-American leader Jean-Bertran Aristide lost the authorities.

In fact, the polls conducted both by Venezuelan and foreign sociologists, even before the boycott of the opposition, clearly testified that the Venezuelae would support pro -presidential candidates.

The electorate of Chavez is the city poor, peasants, Indians and middle -class state employees. They chose it in 1998 and supported all his undertakings. And in 1999, when he raised the question of extending the presidential term from five to six years. And in 2002, when the opposition forces, precisely sponsored by the old oligarchy and, most likely, Washington, tried to arrange a coup d'etat. They also supported the changes to the Constitution, initiated by Chavez, in which Venezuela became a Bolivarian Republic, and parliament with one -to -prime. In exchange for support, Chavez spends oil revenues (Venezuela - the fifth oil exporter in the world) on education and medical care and gives idealistic, but utopian promises of a bright communist future.

On Friday, some provocateurs blew up a home-made bomb in the government building in Karakas, as a result of which three people were injured. And yesterday, two fragmentation grenades exploded at the army base, no one, fortunately, suffered. Chavez, no doubt, will blame the Provashington opposition of this. Its representatives, in turn, are of Chavez people who allegedly did this so that the president attacked their political opponents.

Specific numbers about the elections will be made public only tonight. But one thing is clear - the parliament will be pro -presidential, and it is very doubtful that the matter is in falsification.

12/04/2005 / Anton Ivanitsky material published in the newspaper No. 230 dated 05.12.2005.