So, just so I understand, Doug, you acknowledge then that authoritarian
measures were real but they were justified because of US pressure on the
regime?

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mar 5, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Steve Diamond <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > In any case perhaps post Chavez a genuine democratic politics can emerge
> in Venezuela.
>
> Oh lordy, this.
>
> All you left purists who think Chavez was so nasty. You try running a
> revolutionary state. Reduce poverty, keep the electricity running, avoid
> CIA-backed bourgeois counterrevolution. Yeah, sure.
>
> Doug
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