Opinion of Hugo Chavez

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nonsense on both counts above -- it is more than possible to feel an affinity for Chavez from a left perspective regardless of whatever boost we may get from right-wing ignorance (putting it nicely) on the issue and related issues.  what much of Latin America has been able to do in the last 15 years flies in the face of the past several hundred years.  even those who bury their heads in the sand know the model: a small Europeanized elite and a military flush with US $$ and weapons beats the population into submission and expatriates the country's wealth, in exchange for a cut.  this model more or less held for centuries, despite the notable uprisings (Haiti 1804, Cuba) which were met with 'appropriate' force....  Chavez is part of a movement, along with Morales, to a lesser degree the Kirchners, etc. that has given these areas an unprecedented degree of freedom from Western domination.  the hate for him you see in the capitalist MSM is a direct consequence of this, and his dramatic tendencies (sulfur at the UN) admittedly played into it, consciously or not.

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Horrible Person, obviously. He represents all the worst aspects of the left.

that would better fit somebody like George Galloway.