I didn't notice much positive coverage of Chavez except for maybe the very beginning of his rule. I think people forget too that Venezuela was not exactly a pa

I didn't notice much positive coverage of Chavez except for maybe the very beginning of his rule. I think people forget too that Venezuela was not exactly a paradise for all of its citizens before Chavez either. There's a reason he was democratically elected, which is a warning to pragmatic individuals of all political bents. Democratic systems need regular hygiene and built-in immune responses, as my country (the US) is currently finding.