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Article: Is Chavez a sinner or a saint?(Letter to the Editor)
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- Foreign Policy
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Javier Corrales's "Hugo Boss" (January/February 2006) takes history out of context, contradicts information reported in other sources, and makes an emotional case against the Chavez government, not a rational one.
Corrales says that Hugo Chavez is an autocrat, albeit a modern version of one. He also describes the 2002 coup, which briefly ousted Chavez, as one of the efforts that Venezuelans have taken to stand up to this modern authoritarian government. What Corrales fails to mention is that the interim president at the time, opposition leader Pedro Carmona, immediately dismissed the other two branches of government upon being sworn into office. To portray the ...