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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor a country RULED by an evil "Dictator",
who violently suppressed Opposition Parties,
and threw Opposition Leaders in JAIL without trials,
whose "Jack Booted Thugs" SHUT DOWN the Opposition Media,
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The Opposition Parties and Opposition Media in Venezuela seem remarkably alive and well.
How could THAT happen?
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Chavez must have been a very poor "dictator".
VIVA Democracy!
TimberValley
(318 posts)It can actually make the opposition stronger.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)He touches the edges, but he is NO tyrant.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)... and the GOP's is what, about 6%?
bvar22
(39,909 posts)....with an approval rating of only 60%?
One thing is clear,
his Death Squads, Secret Police and network of informers weren't
weren't worth a damn!
For such a "Dictatorial, Authoritarian Megalomaniac",
Chavez didn't know very much about Dictating.
He was terrible at it.
Any dictator worth his Riding Crop & Interrogation Cells can pull down at least a 98% approval.
What an embarrassment Chavez must have been to all the other Dictators.