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"Hugo Chavez and his followers moved to concentrate power. They seized control of the Supreme Court and undercut the ability of journalists, human rights defenders, and other Venezuelans to exercise fundamental rights. By his second full term in office, the concentration of power and erosion of human rights protections had given the government free rein to intimidate, censor, and prosecute Venezuelans who criticized the president or thwarted his political agenda. In recent years, the president and his followers used these powers in a wide range of prominent cases, whose damaging impact was felt by entire sectors of Venezuelan society.”
Chavez is reported to have amassed a personal fortune of 2 billion dollars during his presidency. (How does that happen legitimately?) He left his country in shambles.
Chavez, Castro, Che -- they are synonymous with repression, deprivation and murder. Those on the Left who venerate Chavez are as guilty of overlooking the sins of their "saint" as U.S. Northerners were of excusing the unconstitutional acts of Lincoln. There may be a venerable monument to Honest Abe in Washington now, but the U.S. never recovered from his despotic administration.
With a communist bus driver now running the country down there and a Marxist ice-cream scooper serving up 31 flavors of socialism here, I don't have much hope for either country now.
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