[NYTr] Venezuela: The Will of the Majority

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Venezuela: The Will of the Majority

By Nestor Núñez
AIN Special Service

The fact that Washington and the internal Venezuelan opposition are 
attempting to discredit the constitutional reforms presented by 
President Hugo Chavez does not surprise anyone.

It is to be expected. If the Bolivarian Constitution is undergoing 
improvements and offers a legal framework to create the conditions for 
the establishment of socialism in the country and if this is successful 
with the majority support of the Venezuelan people, there is little the 
Empire and the oligarchy can do for their any future manoeuvres. 
Clearly, Hugo Chavez has not deceived anyone.  Since the beginning, he 
warned what the main goals of the revolution would be, inspired in the 
ideas of Bolivar. It is concerned with consolidating the real power of 
the people; economically for the social control of the rich resources 
and politically, for a real participatory democracy and the clear 
exercise of the will of the majority. And among the reforms of the 
Magna Charter is the establishment of the national economic sector with 
all the possible and necessary force and instrumentation of the 
people's power. Other modifications establish the successive 
re-election of the President and the extension of his mandate to seven 
years, with the objective of major institutional stability in the 
development of the revolutionary process.

Of course, all this provokes fear and shock among the opposition, and 
the foreign interests that support them, simply because it reduces 
their area for reactionary action. What they cannot hide is that he is 
not using court impositions, as the oligarchies did.  What Chavez 
proposed was debated and approved by the legislative assembly and must 
be agreed on by the population in a referendum scheduled for December. 
What will happen, from now on, will not be anything other than what the 
majority of the Venezuelan people decide. And, no one can contradict 
the will of the people or touch the country with violence and 
instability.