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I don't have much doubt that Chavez is not doing a good job running the country. I also don't doubt that he is a thug. However, he's not a dictator, anymore th
by jordanb 17y ago
I don't have much doubt that Chavez is not doing a good job running the country. I also don't doubt that he is a thug.
However, he's not a dictator, anymore than Berlusconi is a dictator. He's been democratically elected several times. Each time the election was sufficiently clean that there can be no doubt that a majority of Venezuelians voted for him.
- MikeCapone 17y agoMany dictators were first elected, and with time eroded democratic institutions enough that subsequent elections meant less and less, and in the end the country became something else than what could fairly be called a democracy.