Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution"

The democratic model that Chavez and his government are building (even whilst the opposition tries to destroy and sabotage it) has worldwide implications for the human race. Most countries in the world use social models which keep the poor poor (the 80%) and make the wealthy wealthier (the 20%) ... keeping education, information and health care out of reach for the majority who work for miserable wages. The Chavez model allows for direct participation from the masses in the democratic process and empowers the 80% to feel dignified enough to demand their rights as human beings.

  Oscar Heck VHeadline article

The 80-20 figure applies to Venezuela. I don't know what the translation is for us here in the U.S. Obviously, our poor are not as poor, but our rich are much richer. The gap is continuing to widen, and with the loss of jobs, threats of trade sanctions against us, and our pugnacious foreign policy threatening a backlash that may well tighten the noose, together with the current domestic crackdown on civil liberties, we are fast becoming a model banana grapefruit republic.

So far, the so called western world has done little more than take advantage of the fact that many countries live under traditional systems which allow for “cheap labor.” As the western world accumulates wealth (along with their other-country cohorts-in-business) ... the 80% continue to be “slave-driven.” The Bolivarian Revolution addresses this issue with vigor and potential solutions such as ALBA [Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas] (to replace the Free Trade of the Americas which the USA and Canada are pushing for). The Bolivarian Revolution is a world-concept and is possibly applicable to a good portion of the world’s population.

Maybe it will make its way north to us by the time our growing numbers of "disenfranchised" citizens become desperate.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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