Is indefinite reelection the best option to solve Venezuela’s problems?

Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

Due to the bad governments of the past, and the disastrous administration that Chavez has been running for ten years, Venezuela has become plagued by serious problems, including hyperinflation and exponential crime rates.

In our country most people are poor and face multiple forms of deprivation and social exclusion.

However, the bizarre of this is the solution proposed by the current government. President Hugo Chavez is convinced that the best way to solve the problems of Venezuela, and Latin America, is to establish a presidency that has the potential to continue indefinitely, conducted under the totalitarian tenets of socialism.

This idea of life presidency is generally proposed in third world countries where institutions are weak. The indefinite reelection has been tried before in Latin America and has always had sad ends. Fidel Castro, Fujimori, Noriega and Pinochet were in their time defenders of this outlandish proposal to justify their tyrannical claims, and there we have the consequences.

Venezuela does not need presidents for life, and even less if the proponent is a degenerated and inefficient government.

Life presidency will not end poverty, or reduce inflation or avoid capital flight, nor improve the country’s health. The only purpose of indefinite reelection is to incubate autocracies eager to oppress the people.

Hugo Chavez has concentrated in his hands most of the power in Venezuela, from weapons to laws, but he is incapable of using it to benefit the needy.

Only a selfish and indolent leader will seek indefinite reelection as president, regardless of the real needs of the population.

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