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I want to agree with the views expressed above.  I am by no means a fan of Chavez; he is a manipulative, power-hungry, buffoonish demagogue who may yet drive his country into the ground and is stripping away his citizens' freedom.  But he is absolutely ''not'' a dictator.  A dictator has total or near-total control of the government; Chavez, whatever he may wish, is still heavily hamstrung by the apparatus of Venezuela's democracy.  He has had to refer many of his measures to the voters, and was recently handed a defeat which he could do nothing about.  You can call him a dictator-wannabe or repressive, but it ill-serves the credibility of Conservapedia to say he is something he is not. [[User:Tor|Tor]] 16:53, 2 March 2008 (EST)

I want to agree with the views expressed above.  I am by no means a fan of Chavez; he is a manipulative, power-hungry, buffoonish demagogue who may yet drive his country into the ground and is stripping away his citizens' freedom.  But he is absolutely ''not'' a dictator.  A dictator has total or near-total control of the government; Chavez, whatever he may wish, is still heavily hamstrung by the apparatus of Venezuela's democracy.  He has had to refer many of his measures to the voters, and was recently handed a defeat which he could do nothing about.  You can call him a dictator-wannabe or repressive, but it ill-serves the credibility of Conservapedia to say he is something he is not. [[User:Tor|Tor]] 16:53, 2 March 2008 (EST)

:Thank You Tor to are completely correct on this one.  You know I am beginning to have my doubts about whether this website is being edited in good faith.  Chavez is not perfect, and has done a lot of things to harm his country's economy and its people but a dictater?  Well that's nonsense and for our encyclopedia to say so because we dislike his economic and social positions, well that's nonsense on stilts.--[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 08:59, 8 July 2008 (EDT)

:Thank You Tor to are completely correct on this one.  You know I am beginning to have my doubts about whether this website is being edited in good faith.  Chavez is not perfect, and has done a lot of things to harm his country's economy and its people but a dictater?  Well that's nonsense and for our encyclopedia to say so because we dislike his economic and social positions, well that's nonsense on stilts.--[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 08:59, 8 July 2008 (EDT)