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Is Venezuela Really Dictatorship?
October 26, 2016 ... Titled, “ It’s official: Venezuela is a full-blown dictatorship ”, the piece claimed the country has become an “all-out, no-more-elections dictatorship”. The author, Francisco Toro, cited a recent ... standoff isn’t the same thing as a “full-blown dictatorship”. Toro himself put it best when he wrote, ... -
Venezuela: Dictatorship or Democracy?
May 27, 2004 ... to those who say that Venezuela under Chavez has become a dictatorship and those who say that it has become a real ... opposition says it paves the way for a “constitutional dictatorship” and the government says it deepens and ... cycle of antagonism. Supreme Court Law: Constitutional Dictatorship or Stronger Rule of Law? As if the ... -
Chávez in Charge
February 2, 2007 ... old bureaucracies will have to be merged. Is this road to dictatorship or the path to reasonable reform? The nature of ... -
Why the US Demonises Venezuela's Democracy
October 4, 2012 ... Here is what Jimmy Carter said about Venezuela's "dictatorship" a few weeks ago: "As a matter of fact, of the ... -
Venezuela is no tyranny
October 19, 2009 As Latin Americans witness the return of dictatorship – with Honduras suffering political ... is becoming a tyranny. Venezuela is far from the "dictatorship which has a facade of democracy" described by ... -
Venezuela Knows What It's Doing
November 29, 2007 ... being considered in Venezuela are but a step toward dictatorship. A little calm, and context, is in order. Since ... -
The Becoming of Social Democracy in Venezuela
November 3, 2010 ... who were exiled to Colombia by the [Juan Vicente] Gomez dictatorship signed a document titled “The Barranquilla ... -
Venezuela’s Enabling Law Could Also Enable the Opposition
February 6, 2007 ... the world finally feel vindicated (again). The Venezuelan dictatorship that they have been predicting for the past ... in 1998 critics predicted Chavez would bring about a dictatorship in Venezuela. They kept having to revise their estimates for when this dictatorship would set in, though, because following each ... -
How Easy it is to be Ultra in Venezuela
April 12, 2004 ... of ink accusing the Chávez government of totalitarian dictatorship…and continues circulating as usual? Has it ... that titled yesterday's Sunday editorial "Elections in Dictatorship", so that Chávez can show it to the world as "authentic" proof that his government isn't a dictatorship? Do these editorialists have any option but to ... -
Noam Chomsky on the Hopeful Signs Across Latin America
March 7, 2006 ... instance where they succeeded in overthrowing the military dictatorship? What gives us more hope about this particular ... first 9/11 in 1973, which was an utter catastrophe. The dictatorship in Chile, which is a horror story also led to an ... It has partially liberated itself from the military dictatorship; and in the other countries even more so. So for ... -
Latin American "Populism" Doing Well
March 28, 2006 ... murders, torture, and disappearances during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Previously marginalized and excluded groups ... -
How to Turn a Government into a Pariah: Venezuela’s “Matrix”
March 7, 2004 ... to argue that such incidents prove that Venezuela is a dictatorship, as the opposition now almost unanimously does, ... governments in the world today would have to be called dictatorship. The next few days, in which opposition leaders ... impression that the Chavez government is an authoritarian dictatorship, there are some disturbing reports of torture ... -
Venezuelans March Peacefully and Reflect on Amendment, Chávez, and Socialism
January 27, 2009 ... years to the day after Venezuelans toppled the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, tens of thousands of ... and against the amendment praised democracy and condemned dictatorship, and accused their counterparts of doing the ... -
Miracles Do Happen: Venezuela Relabeled a Democracy in Wake of Opposition Win
December 7, 2015 Last night, as the results of the December 6th elections were announced, spontaneous parties broke out in the urban centers of Venezuela. Fireworks were launched, horns were honked to no end. Just hours before, the same people were howling via social media to the world about the totalitarian dictatorship imposed by Nicolas Maduro. -
The Shadow of Chile Falls on Venezuela
November 11, 2013 ... of UDI was encouraged and assisted by Pinochet's dictatorship. Novoa notoriously served as general government undersecretary of the military dictatorship between 1979-1982. This link with the Chilean ... secured over the past 15 years. In Chile, Pinochet's dictatorship lasted 17 years and an estimated 10,000 people ...