> http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58965-2000Jul27.html
>
> A Disguised Dictatorship?
> By Brian Latell
> Friday, July 28, 2000; Page A25
>
> "peaceful revolution" is inspired to an alarming
> extent by authoritarian principles and models.
>
> ingeniously disguised personal dictatorship.
>
> manifestly autocratic and
> demagogic. He has employed swaggering rhetoric to mobilize his followers
> while intimidating real and imagined foes.
>
> Most alarmingly, Chavez has churned class antagonisms by demonizing the "ran
> cid oligarchy" and "rotten elites" of the old political order.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu