Talking points from American & Cuban history for your "Chavez is a despot" acquaintances:
[August 17 2007] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Eight Years Later Hugo Chavez Begins Reforming The Venezuelan Constitution Including Potentially Eliminating Term Limits, Which Isn't Necessarily A Bad, Despotic Thing <http://leighm.net/wp/2007/08/17/tth_070817/> ...or at archive.org - <http://www.archive.org/details/tth_070817>
