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May 25, 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently said, “I believe there is an assault on democracy in Venezuela and I believe that there are significant human rights issues.” She did not, however, say what she meant by “democracy.” We’ve selected essential characteristics of democracy and supplied key facts about them from the Chávez era. Is Secretary Rice correct? You be the judge.

May 13, 2007 First used in Serbia in 2000, Washington has now perfected a new imperial strategy to maintain its supremacy around the globe. Whereas military invasions and installing dictatorships have traditionally been the way to control foreign populations and keep them out of the way of business, the U.S. government has now developed a new strategy that is not so messy or brutal, and much sleeker; so sleek, in fact, that it’s almost invisible.

May 23, 2007 ... His critics often accuse him of laying the groundwork for dictatorship, despite the democratic credentials of his ... media, much of which has been unsuccessfully predicting dictatorship under Chávez for years, has used this case to ... again, it seems, the warnings of a move from democracy to dictatorship in Venezuela have been loud but lacking in ...

May 4, 2007 ... show of financial support for a newly installed dictatorship - one which immediately dissolved the country's ...

May 28, 2007 ... right had attempted to take Venezuela back to the military dictatorship of the Fifties, the coup had failed and Chávez ...

May 30, 2007 ... is worse than what we experienced before the end of the dictatorship" of General Augusto Pinochet in 1990, said ...