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How exactly Chavez, an elected leader of a sovereign country, not a dictator or a mass murderer or anything, fits in the company of people mentioned here? Or i
by dmorgan 14y ago
How exactly Chavez, an elected leader of a sovereign country, not a dictator or a mass murderer or anything, fits in the company of people mentioned here?
Or is it just a generic list of people that Americans are told "are bad persons", because some are indeed dictators and others just stand in the way of the foreign exploitation of third world country and it's natural resources?
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- to3m 14y agoI don't really know how to respond to this, but if any offence was caused then I apologise...
- dmorgan 14y agoNo hard feelings. It's just uncomfortable for people to see their _elected_ leader demonized along with Hitler and mass murderers, especially if said leaders just concern themselves with their own, sovereign country, business. Doubly so in a region where foreign invasion and intervention has started many dictatorships and cost many casualties. It's not Chavez that did this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/guatemala-experiments_n_941284.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/guatemala-experimen... Or this: http://www.alternet.org/world/us-funded-death-squads-el-salvador-casts-shadow-over-gop-ticket http://www.alternet.org/world/us-funded-death-squads-el-salv...