Magglio Booed for Political Beliefs

He was not booed by the grass root countrymen, only by the lighter skinned financially well to do. Who attends this games? Where are they being played? Hugo Chavez is loved by poor people and darker skinned of his country because Hugo is willing to make their lives better and not being a puppet of the U.S. Whats wrong with a president running for office more than twice? Just because it's a law in the U.S., does that mean every country must do the same? It only became a law in this country when the republicans feared FDR would keep winning. Dig deeper and come up with a more complete story, that's more interesting.

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Well, we can say that the U.S. political system, revolutionary in its time and arguably to this very day, was in great measure designed in response to the immense concentration of power in an individual.

The colonial leadership thought long and hard about the various political systems in their time and before, and their flaws and clearly had a real problem with the whole King thing.

Term limits for the chief executive were not in place until after FDR, but there was certainly a longstanding tradition of self-imposed abdication of power probably in great deference to that understanding.

Who is to say that two terms is the appropriate limit, but certainly something for that Presidential-level position seems to make sense in the U.S. and elsewhere given what kind of trouble those isolated in never-ending power have presented to the world and their citizens/subjects, repeatedly.

The problem is not in a President running for office more than twice. The problem is a President's ability to manipulate the office beyond previously ascribed powers to a point of near-totalitarian control (intimidation and elimination of political opposition, concentration of wealth for the ruling party to purchase power where it cannot otherwise reasonably and legally be obtained, etc.) which is exactly what is happening in Venezuela and has happened in many other places.

Whether Chavez is good or bad for the people really is irrelevant in that sense to the idea that in the long-term his ability to be "elected" without cessation presents all kinds of troubles the world has seen before and does not want to get roped into.

Its something that shouldn't just concern well-to-do fairskinned Venezuelans but all its citizens.

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The "Tascón List" is a list of almost three million Venezuelans who signed a petition in support of the recall referendum in August, 2004 against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Posted on the personal webpage of Luis Tascón as a means to allow Venezuelans to see if their identity or signature had been misappropriated.

The list has been used repeatedly by the Government to fire, deny contracts and benefits and only delusional fanatics of the autocrat/dictator continue going around denyin its use for political purposes.

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i wonder what fans that actually live in Venezuela think about this effort by the crowd?

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