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Have I Mentioned Recently That Hugo Chavez Is A Dictator?

No? Well, let me mention it now: Hugo Chavez is a dictator. And a brutal one, to boot:

Quote Of The Day

Compared to radio stations, they’re getting off lightly.

In Venezuela, The Journalists Fight Back

There is no dispute in Hugo Chavez’s country over the fact that he is a dictator. His actions against the remaining vestiges of an independent media make that clear. Thus, it is comforting to read that Venezuelan journalists are not going to take Chavez’s depredations lying down:

This Is How A Democracy Acts?

Hugo Chavez endorses this kind of behavior:

Hugo Chavez = Dictator

I will never cease to be amazed by the fact that at one point, there was a debate over whether the title of this post reflected an accurate statement:

Venezuela: The Eternal Question

Is it all right if we call Hugo Chavez a dictator now?

Can We Call Hugo Chavez A Dictator Now?

This debate should be over:

Trouble In Venezuela? Time To Blame The Jews!

It’s always the same old song and dance, isn’t it? Dictator finds country, dictator ravages country, dictator blames the Jews:

The Bolivarians Stumble Anew

Thus far, the regime of Hugo Chavez has brought nothing but poverty, shortages, corruption, autocracy, dictatorship, and deprivation to the people it claims to serve, thanks to the combination of short-sightedness, zealotry, and self-dealing inherent in the regime’s policies.

Can We Call Hugo Chavez An Dictator Now? (Part 2,917,436)

I fully expect that there are Chavez apologists out there who remain more than willing to argue that their man is the greatest thing to happen to democracy since Jefferson himself. I just don’t think that such statements can be made with a straight face:

Curious Coincidences: Venezuela Edition

Come now. Who actually believes that the head of Globovision, an anti-Chavez television station, is really being prosecuted for usury?

Chavez (Almost) Unbound

Thank God this plan didn’t come to fruition:

- March 20, 2010 -

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