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Liberal icon and “socialist reformer” (read: creator of destruction and misery) Hugo Chavez is preparing to remove those pesky term limits that prevent him from becoming dictator-for-life.

President Hugo Chavez will unveil a project to change the Constitution on Wednesday that is expected to allow him to be re-elected indefinitely, a move that would enhance his authority to accelerate a socialist-inspired transformation of Venezuelan society.

The removal of term limits for Mr. Chavez, which is at the heart of the proposal, is expected to be accompanied by measures circumscribing the authority of elected governors and mayors, who would be prevented from staying in power indefinitely, according to versions of the project leaked in recent weeks.

The aim of the overhaul is “to guarantee to the people the largest amount of happiness possible,” Mr. Lara said at a news conference on Tuesday.

The project has already led to fierce debate over Mr. Chavez’s expanding power. Critics in the Roman Catholic Church have been clashing with Mr. Chavez over the re-election proposals, with one cardinal, Rosalio Jos? Castillo Lara, calling him a “paranoid dictator.”

The American left has long played the apologetic fools to Chavez’s power grab. Many have accepted without question his paranoid delusions about supposed American complicity in the attempts of the Venezuelan people to overthrow the dictator. Congressional Democrats have even written to chastise Bush for not protecting the thug from opposition to his authoritarian administration. Where does this compulsion to support anti-democratic dictators come from?

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