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The Castro in Caracas: Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, in Fidel's image.

National Review

| April 07, 2003 | Prillaman, William S. | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It's a little after midnight in Caracas, and Hugo Chavez has just finished his weekly visit with the Venezuelan people. In tonight's four-hour address, the president has blamed the country's woes on the United States, the international capitalist system, Venezuela's "rotten oligarchy" and "squalid elites," bankers, coup plotters in Miami, "savage neoliberalism," bad weather, and the recent shortage of full moons.

Welcome to the world of Hugo Chavez. It would be easy to dismiss Chavez as a character from a Woody Allen movie if the stakes weren't so high and the consequences so grave. Recent defectors from the presidential palace accuse Chavez of supporting ...

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