New democracy à la Chávez

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is giving a totally new meaning for the word 'democracy'.

It means unrestricted amount of re-elections of the same president. It means virtually unlimited control of oil income for the president. It means transferring control of state finances from the State Bank to the president. It means transferring local administration to the president. It means putting local councils to control instead of mayors; councils appointed by the president, of course.

And as Chávez is building a new bold socialistic fatherland, anything can be socialized for 'appropriate just compensation'.

Even though power and decision making is moved from elections to directly under president's control, Chávez says that he doesn't know any other country on the globe, that would be more democratic than Venezuela.

Well, Venezuela really seems to be one kind of a democracy. In the same way as Soviet Union and East Germany were, and China is: so called people's democracy (where people have no say).

It is not what you do, that counts. It is what you say: Just keep on arguing, and finally they will believe you: Venezuela is a democracy. The most democratic democracy on the globe.