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Hugo Chavez Dead at 58: Good Riddance!

el Comandante

Michael Moynihan does not mourn the passing of this autocratic showman—and says his mad dreams will likely die with him.

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All one needs to know about Hugo Chávez’s poisonous political legacy can be determined from the circumstances in which he died. Or how little we know about the manner in which—or when, or how—he died.

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