Oh yea, you showed your hand with the Pinochet comparison. It is laughable. If there were even a speck of proof that Chavez is doing what Pinochet did, we'd be all over that country with troops... The only reason it didn't happen with Pinochet was because he disappeared and tortured leftists or suspected leftists which is something we train people for right here in America at the School of the Americas which is an American santioned terror training camp right here on our soil. This crap has happend all over Central and South America and it's absolutely hilarious you'd try to play that card against Chavez knowing how often it's happened on the right... If there were hard facts on this being the case, it would be plastered on American Media and we'd have sent troops in so yea, I call bullshit.
Hey, I never said Chavez is currently torturing and murdering the opposition...not yet anyway and I hope he never does, though it is something we fear very much. Venezuelans have good reason to fear this as they went through this with former Venezuelan dictators general Juan Vicente Gómez between 1908 and 1935, and Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez between 1952 and 1958. Like most dictators, these two were not tolerant of criticism and their governments ruthlessly pursued and suppressed the opposition in Venezuela.
My comparison was that as the truth about dictators such as Castro and Pinochet abusing their power came to light, likewise the truth about Chavez abusing his power will come to light. He is a dictator wannabe and he is abusing his power. Don't believe me? Will you believe John Pilger, who is a Chavez supporter? In one of his documentaries, John Pilger admits that Chavez has denied Venezuelans some basic rights and liberties, then he justified it by saying that Chavez says he is doing this only to accelerate reform...yeah right. Did you not watch the documentary you posted?
