Understanding Venezuela’s Opposition Protests
Gregory Wilpert
Gregory Wilpert is a German-American sociologist, journalist, and activist who has covered Venezuela extensively for a wide variety of publications. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology (Brandeis University, 1994) and is author of the book, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chávez Government (Verso Books, 2007). He is co-founder of the website Venezuelanalysis.com, was director of the teleSUR English website, and host and managing editor for The Real News Network. Currently he works as deputy editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
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First of that flat out wrong as this article explains.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/03/06/venezuelan_constitution_vp_nicolas_maduro_named_interim_leader_in_conflict.html
Chavez was president, not president-elect a at his time of death. so the Vice Prez takes over. Second even if your argument were true it would not be reasonable grounds for nullifying the choice Venezuelan voters made. Very sleazy – and revelatory – that the opposition was constantly fishing for technical grounds to nullify a elections they lost – first in October of 2012, then in April of 2013
but it’s NOT an elected govt he put himself in power when it should have been the president of the national assembly thus making his “campaigning” for the position as president illegitimate!