tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post5756600926464223871..comments2023-08-19T14:12:52.220+02:00Comments on Reflection & Inquiries: Hugo Chávez' military strength and problemGeoffrey Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-13628914409825796302008-01-04T09:02:00.000+01:002008-01-04T09:02:00.000+01:001) Yes -- or at least, those still on active duty ...1) Yes -- or at least, those still on active duty profess to support the "Bolivarian revolution"; the other guys have been sacked.<BR/>2) I don't think even Hugo knows what they might do. Gen. Baduel (retired but still influential) came out strongly against the term-limit abolution and other constitutional changes. Others (in Castañeda's analysis) may have been willing to accept the changes, but only if the vote had gone that way. Which it didn't.Geoffrey Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-46806004394499377212008-01-04T04:00:00.000+01:002008-01-04T04:00:00.000+01:00I have a question, not a comment from any kind of ...I have a question, not a comment from any kind of knowledge: are the Venezuelan generals, those in power now, revolutionaries the way generals were in Nasser's Egypt? Has Chavez been able to purge anyone in the General ranks who wasn't at least somewhat "Bolivarian?"<BR/><BR/>Would the military move against him if he tried for the term limit abolition again?Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022467225802589824noreply@blogger.com