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The common U. S. view of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is similar to the common U. S. view of any foreign leader whose policies are unpopular with Wall Street’s masters of the universe:
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Dictator! Subersive! Threat! And, of course, Commie!
Der Spiegel offers a non-U. S. and certainly more balanced view. A nugget:
After meeting Chávez years ago, the writer Gabriel García Márquez said he didn’t know if he had just spoken to a visionary capable of saving Latin America or a dreamer who would turn into a common Latin American despot.
