You do realize that the change in the constitution was voted upon by the people. 92% of those voting voted “yes” in response to the question about convoking a constitutional assembly and 86% approved of the procedures set forth by the president to change the constitution. If your talking about how he has rule decree while yes the Venezuelan National Assembly (their congress) voted to give him decree rule in several areas such as housing, public works, and finances, they announced to give him this power back in December because of the damaging floods that destroyed much of Venezuela farming community.
Yea yea yea dictator because "there are no term limits". Many democratic countries do not have term limits, but we dont call them a dictatorship. He has been re-elected over and over again. The EU released a report stating that elections in Venezuela are fair and free. "Elections were held in respect of national laws and international standards concerning electoral administration and the electronic voting system. The electronic voting system established in Venezuela is efficient, secure and auditable, and the competence of the technical experts is in line with its advanced technological level.]"
It seems that our media and only our country is the only people throwing around these terms. Remember when we did not have term limits?
So that makes you a dictator if you nationalize and use socialism as an economic policy? It makes you a dictator using agrarian reform? Publicly owned land has already been given to hundreds and thousands of farmers. Based on a 2001 land law that allows the government to expropriate land if judged either idle or unproductive.
On the media... According to Eva Golinger (winner of international award for journalism) "Documents reveal multimillion-dollar funding to journalists and media in Venezuela. State Department documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence more than $4 million USD in funding to journalists and private media in Venezuela during the last three years. This funding is part of the more than $40 million USD international agencies are investing annually in anti-Chavez groups in Venezuela in an attempt to provoke regime change." You do realize that there are currently between 90 and 100 newspapers and of which at least 80% side with the political opposition, and on radio there are at least 400 that broadcast the oppositions side? In a recent study "Venezuelan state TV channels had just a 5.4 percent audience share. Of the other 94.6 percent of the audience, 61.4 percent were watching privately owned television channels, and 33.1 percent were watching paid TV." (If you would like to take a look at the study and the data here is a quick link
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/images/wr_t_1.jpg ). Right... "murdering"... Right..
I would really like to see a source on the CNE please...