A current event issue that caught my eye was the situation going on in Venezuela. This past Sunday, December 1, 2007, Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, held an election to reform the Venezuelan Constitution, stating that he would be supreme ruler for all of time. Fortunately, he lost that election, and no reform to the constitution was made. On Monday morning, however, he made it very clear that although he was not going to be supreme ruler, he was still going to present to the Venezuelan people this notion of changing the Constitution, and that hopefully, one day, they will agree with him and vote in favor of him. Personally, I feel that although it is not the United States' duty to intervene with the way other nations are governing their people, I do believe that the United States should keep an eye on what going on with Chavez.
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