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Congrats on finding some left wing "psuedoresearch" on the interwebs.
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It was fairly easy--I used a
notoriously left-leaning search engine so it's not surprising that the results were so slanted.
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Freedom of the press is one of the most basic freedoms.
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Agreed. As I stated earlier,
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I was just responding to the "prosperous" in [your] contention that Chavez "eliminates the possibility of a free and prosperous Venezuela."*
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Reporters Without Borders issues a yearly
Worldwide Press Freedom Index which indicates that Venezuela ranks poorly in press freedom--115th of 168. (The United States ranks 53rd.) There is clearly room for improvement, and
any instance of a government shutting down a media organization should be viewed with skepticism and suspicion.
As such, I can see how one
could argue that Chavez "eliminates the possibility of a free...Venezuela," though I'd strongly disagree with that viewpoint. However, I haven't come across evidence to support your view that Chavez "eliminates the possibility of a...prosperous Venezuela." In fact, I even provided some evidence that this view is factually incorrect.
Consequently, I can't find much validity in your contentions that "Hugo must go..." for the reasons you've provided.
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Also, did you know that 95% of the world's oil is controlled by national oil companies? Those state owned oil companies are notorious for over producing, which led to the glut of the late 1980's and 1990's.
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Fascinating.
*To be fair, you might have been using the phrase "free and prosperous" in a "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," pie-in-the-sky, nebulous sort of way that can only be satisfied by a United States-sanctioned regime, in which case we have an entirely different discussion on our hands.