There are many things to celebrate as a result of the razor thin referendum victory for the Venezuelan opposition last Sunday over the attempt by Hugo Chavez to turn that country into a socialist dictatorship.But Roger Cohen has discovered an angle to the story that few, if any of us would have imagined; giving props to the thuggish Chavez for not fixing the vote:I salute you, Hugo Chávez. Those are words I never thought I’d write. But nor did I think it possible that a Latin American strongman, issued from the barracks, accumulating power through threats, slandering opponents as “traitors,” buying support with $150 million a day in oil money, and bent on a socialist revolution, would accept a marginal electoral defeat. No, if it came to the humiliation of a 51 to 49 percent rejection of his proposal to end term limits and undermine private property rights and centralize authority, he would surely use a controlled Election Commission to tweak the...(Read Full Post)