Will Hugo Chavez stay in office as long he keeps winning elections?

So, becuse he criticizes the USA he shud not be PResident of Venzuela??
If the people elect him; then what business is it of ours?
I thought we liked democracies?


oooooooooooopppppppppppppppppppsssssssss thats right we only like the ones we can control and manipulate who will do whatever we say..silly me.......

No. I'm just saying that he criticizes it. That's all.
I never said that he should not be president because of that.

Great question hect0r!

@ dean:
At question here is the term limit rule, as defined by the Venezuelan constitution. In my opinion, he should follow the rules like any other citizen of Venezuela. He wants to change the rules, which is the point of this question.

@notablenotics.... if you read the question, and the article hector refers to...you will see
President Chavez is seeking a constitutional reform which must be voted on and passed before this question even has a remote possibility of occuring in 2016.
If in fact the question is whether the Constitutional amendment passes that would permit a sitting president of venezuala to run for an infinite number of terms, then the question needs to be reworded.
I love the question hectOr, if I hurt your feelings i apologize.

@dean:

Ok, I am trying to figure out what you are saying. Hugo assumed office in 1999. He was re-elected in 2006. The Venezuelan constitution says he can only serve two consecutive terms... so how does this come to 2016? I looked at the links provided and didn't see anything there about that year.

See Article 230 of the Venezuelan Constitution for details.

I've clarified the question. Hopefully it helps decide what's being asked. I'm no longer a great fan of questions that ask a big provocative question in the title, and then ask a more down to earth second question in the background, because it's too confusing. Some people will read the title as headline, and then look for the substance in the background, while others will assume the background is just commentary and the real question is the title question.

I've also noticed that when people employ this 2-question approach, there's invariably aspects of the settlement process for the question left out which can lead to real problems in settling questions. It's as if wit has vanquished clarity. As the engineers say: KISS.

sorry 2016 was a typo he will come up for re-election in 2012. And with all the Editor notes..what cant the question just become a one step question..instead of the provacative anti Chavez slant??? (Checks to see if I am on FOX News network)

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0153221920081202
Venezuela Chavez sees re-election amendment by Feb

CARACAS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday said a constitutional amendment allowing him to stay in office as long as he wins elections should be ready by February 2009 at the latest.

Venezuelan oil prices are now $34 a barrel. Producing 2.3 million barrels a day, down 16% from 2005, and now consuming 795,000 barrels of that, as Caracas investment banker Miguel Octavio estimated on his blog, "The Devil's Excrement," he doesn't even have enough earnings to finance imports. He's given away about 424,000 barrels of oil output, and must make do on sales of about 1 million barrels. With oil down, Chavez has entered the worst phase of the oil cycle.

The cash he used to buy elections in 2004 and 2006 is no more, and his hasty call for a new measure to end term limits — and enable him to be president for life — is pretty much a desperate effort to end any calls for accountability in the wake of the bust.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=313804515539863

Chavez's stance/actions with the IMF, WTO and World Banks are enough to make me a fan for life.

I don't have a problem with Chavez criticizing the US; my problem is that Chavez may be--by all reports--clinically insane.

nah....he just has a big balls and a serious love of coffee. combo's like that always confuse people.

@conspiracy

How on earth could you be Hugo's "fan for life"? The man is awful and embodies everything that's wrong with illiberal democracies in the world. Take it from the Wash Post:

"For this coming vote, he has resorted to 1930s fascist tactics of fomenting insecurity -- and then rising in the polls. His supporters have thrown tear-gas bombs at the homes of opponents (and even at the Vatican mission), attacked demonstrators, and singled out opposition student leaders as Jewish, creating a climate in which a synagogue was desecrated two weeks ago."