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www.weeklystandard.com The French, Solzhenitsyn, light rail, Venezuela, and more. 03/17/2003 12:00:00 AM

I have often wondered what Congress's real position is regarding democracy and the rights of people in Venezuela (Thor Halvorssen, Comandante Chavez's Friends). Would they accept, from any U.S. president, just a small percentage of what Chavez has done in Venezuela? Is Chavez's style of democracy what they want for theirs constituents?

--Henrique Lander

Thank you to Thor Halvorssen for saying exactly what all of us have been trying to tell the world about Hugo Chavez for the past four years! Please America, don't abandon us, we are your most fervent admirers in South America.

Hugo Chavez was elected as a democrat by a country suffering from corruption, but what is happening now, is worse than anything anyone can imagine.

--Maruja Beracasa