Tags: Democracy

Hugo Chavez's successor promises to come down with a "hard hand"

Chavez was just re-elected last year and had not been publicly inaugurated due to illness

Cashing in on tools that will undoubtedly be used to spy on and detain political opposition

"Freedom doesn't preserve itself all alone," Germany's current chancellor Angela Merkel said

Automation is good, unless the thing you're automating shouldn't be done in the first place.

Referendum on draft constitution requiring a simple majority still scheduled for Saturday

Elites prefer to rule an impoverished citizenry to not ruling at all.

When the votes are counted, the winner will be gracious and the loser will be conciliatory.

The difference between a one party system and a two party system is just one party.

The long-lived, utterly insane idea of an autocrat imposing freedom.