[The Weeping Angel]

This is what they used to do in Chile and Argentina

I'm not going to forget those left-wingers who went and in some cases still come out to bat for this regime because Chavez stuck it Dubya.

[Bones McCoy]

Magic Grandpa?

[Youngian]

Chavez was democratically elected and had admirable social and economic goals with the means to fund them. It wasn't long before he revealed himself to be a populist clown burning a hole in his pocket quicker than a drunk sailor on shore leave. None of that made him a sinister despot operating death squads.