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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.

March 13, 2007 ... manichaeist view that tries to associate military with dictatorship and this is a lack of respect, [an insult] to ... contribute to the construction of an authentic democracy. Dictatorship is not possible here in Venezuela... Journalist ... in publicity against you. The dilemma that you represent dictatorship and the others represent democracy, freedom of ...

December 17, 2007 ... outlets, commentators worried about Chávez's emerging "dictatorship" and cheered the referendum's defeat as a ...

June 20, 2007 ... archaic education system established under the military dictatorship no longer favour those with high incomes. After ... who are the most marginalised. While under the military dictatorship, their leaders suffered brutal repression and ... allowed repressive anti-terror laws established under the dictatorship, and strengthened by the Lagos government, to ...

February 26, 2007 ... the degeneration of the revolution into a bureaucratic dictatorship headed by Joseph Stalin. In particular, Chavez ...

March 15, 2007 ... the world against the consolidation of a diabolical global dictatorship.  Chavez' power, like Fellini's, flows from his ... half century to evoke the "Soviet Bolshevik" image of a dictatorship that confiscates private property without ...

December 1, 2007 ... of this article, claiming that it lays the groundwork for dictatorship because it supposedly means that the authorities ... is not a "sweeping power" that will turn Venezuela into a dictatorship. Rather, this is something that ought to be ... Gunson has made this claim in: "Venezuela: Towards Elected Dictatorship" ( ...

January 23, 2007 ... that relationship will never be a democracy. It will be a dictatorship or, worse yet, a plutocracy. Like the one that ...

September 3, 2007 ... one of Karl Marx’s proposals was precisely that of the dictatorship of the proletariat; but that is not viable for ...

March 19, 2007 ... runs it with his right. John Stossel : So it's a family dictatorship. Barbara Walters : Well, so to speak. And by the ...

July 16, 2007 ... and socialist politics. The fall of the military dictatorship of General Pérez Jiménez in 1958 was followed ... coup and AD-military junta that overthrew the military dictatorship of Isaías Medina Angarita. But unlike the AD ... a broker for the repayment of the debt.27 The subsequent dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez—who ousted ...

March 26, 2007 ... the Soviet Union, avoided degenerating into a bureaucratic dictatorship. As a result the Cuban Revolution, despite its ...

October 16, 2007 ... Che's command struck a mortal blow against the Batista dictatorship in the historic 1958 Battle of Santa Clara. The ...

January 30, 2007 ... has been predicting (and accusing the government) of dictatorship for 8 years now. So far, the only dictatorship Venezuela has had in the last 8 years was the 48 ... States since September 11. I will take these fears of dictatorship much more seriously if Venezuela ever reaches ...

February 22, 2007 ... most Venezuelans voted for Chavez "because (they) wanted a dictatorship." This kind of slander actually gets printed in ... The latter path ends badly in military or civilian dictatorship eventually causing bankruptcy from a combination ...