Hugo Chavez Dead

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

Lotus, you're trying to win an argument nobody gives two shits about.

With all respect, YOU don't care about it. Many others do. We can't understand his effect on Latin America in the past or in the future while we talk about him like a wooden stereotype.

Or, put differently, to compare him to Hitler is to insult Hitler's many victims, since Chavez did not do the same.

But I am not defending him. For example, in your list above you did not mention how he cozied up to China in particularly galling ways. But let's keep things in context and not over-react. He was no Hitler.