There I agree with you. Things will go better for Hugo if he approves this.

Ortega appears to be stupid beyond comprehension. Chavez is a military commander and he thinks he can run the country like an armed force. He is equally inept.

He either grants permits or he has a rebellion on his hands.

You should read the history of France during King Louis xvi and Marie Antoinette or The Last Emperor of China. The whole country was rioting and they were getting grapes fed to them .

You will then understand how utterly stupid incompetent people can be in power. I really did not think this sort of thing was possible in our age, but obviously it is.