'In interviews, three former key allies of the president said they remain true to their leftist values but felt it was time to break with Chávez because of what they characterized as his lack of tolerance and his drive for more power.
"We've all been revolutionaries and we have believed in socialism all our lives, but socialism within democracy," said Ismael García, secretary general of Podemos, a party that broke with Chávez. "We have to ask him, how do you feel abandoning a constitution that says Venezuela is a state of laws, of justice for all, that it's federal, decentralized, plural and diverse?" '
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112900005_2.html?hpid=moreheadlines
And yet strangely, the left in Britain love him. But then 'democracy, a state of laws, of justice for all, federal, decentralised, plural and diverse' holds no interest or validity for them.
Update: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_gott/2007/11/bolivar_reborn.html
'The unfavourable image of the Chávez government in the outside world has been largely created by a tiny group of Caracas-based foreign journalists who repeat the hostile propaganda produced by this opposition, and fail to appreciate the quantitative and qualitative improvements that have taken place in the country over the past few years.'
Venezuela- highest murder rate IN THE WORLD
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