02/17/2009 The Ultimate Paradox: A Democratic Dictatorship

Until Sunday, Latin American dictatorships had been established by force. It usually took a strong-arm president, a coup d'etat or a violent revolution to violate a constitution and subject the people to a regime that deprived them of their civil and .

02/10/2009 Running for Dictator

Imagine what would happen if President Barack Obama started campaigning to end presidential term limits and if he told us we should amend the Constitution so he could run for re-election indefinitely. We would think he went crazy, right?

05/19/2009 Hugo Being Hugo

Say you saw Hugo Chavez shaking Barack Obama's hand and you thought the Venezuelan president was a different person. Say you no longer saw him as an arrogant, anti-American socialist dictator but as someone who could be swayed to rule by democratic ...

12/16/2008 ‘Presidente’ by Intimidation

Only one year after the Venezuelan people rejected Hugo Chavez's bid to become their dictator, the socialist/narcissistic "presidente" wants another referendum that would enable him to stay in power indefinitely. Last December, whe

03/18/2008 Put Venezuela on the Terror List

After years on the receiving end of insults and unfounded attacks from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush finally is engaging in some tough talk with the firebrand/demagogue who wants to lead a leftist movement against the United States.<...

01/22/2008 Watching Hugo Go Crazy

As the world tries to ignore him, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gets increasingly close to doing something crazy — just to get some attention. And when it happens, when Chavez declares war on a neighboring country or wages an oil war ...

12/04/2007 Venezuelans Reject Chavez Dictatorship

For several years, it seemed as if the Venezuelan people had gone crazy. Over various election cycles, they gradually had given away their freedom and allowed their madcap president to rule like a vociferous tyrant. It seemed as if we were ...

11/20/2007 A Dangerous Clown

The U.S. government pretends he is invisible, and the American people refuse to see him. Most of us don't see the threat he represents to U.S. interests. He keeps telling us he is powerful and dangerous, but because he acts like a clown, we just keep ...

10/23/2007 The United States of Cubazuela

Just when you thought the clown who rules Venezuela couldn't be any more bizarre or say anything more absurd, out comes President Hugo Chavez with yet another amazingly preposterous statement. It happens at least once a week. He is the shock ...

10/02/2007 The Latin American Axis of Evil

They are a new and emerging team of anti-American players — Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and Ecuador's Rafael Correa. They call themselves socialists of the 21st century. And their team manager is the ...

08/21/2007 The Making of a Constitutional Dictator

Just when we thought there was nothing more Hugo Chavez could do to legally entrench himself as dictator of Venezuela, out he comes with yet another proposal that we think free and democratic voters will have to reject. But amazingly, they ...

06/05/2007 Venezuela Unplugs Opposition TV

When the people freely give away their freedom, as they have in Venezuela, can you really feel sorry for them? In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez gives the people every indication that he intends to gradually take away their liberties, and yet ...

03/13/2007 Bush Rediscovers the New World

Just when we thought Hugo Chavez had been given free rein to take over Latin America, President Bush suddenly remembered that there are 19 countries just south of the Mexican border. After neglecting Latin America for the past six years, and ...

01/09/2007 Say Adios to Venezuelan Democracy

Until now, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been able to claim that he rules over a democracy. But that is about to change. You can't have a democracy if opposing the government becomes a crime, if the media is censored and only one ...

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