On December 7th R. Douglas MacDonald wrote an interesting letter on the constitutional referendum in which he mentions Alan Woods’ article on the same. He raises the question “that the revised constitution could have permitted Chavez to be elected president for life” and this may have been an important factor. Alan Woods replies to this, reiterating the fact that the Chavez electorate are dissatisfied with the slow pace of the revolution and discontented with the results.
On Friday, December 7th, Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post
analysed the world's media biased coverage of the constitutional reform
referendum. Amongst those interviewed was Alan Woods, founder of Hands
Off Venezuela.
The December 7th edition of "La Hojilla Impresa", the weekly newspaper of the famous TV programme of Mario Silva "The Razor", which cuts through the lies of the counter-revolution, published a major extract of Alan Woods' analysis of the constitutional reform referendum in its centre pages.