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The Stupidest Hugo Chavez Hagiographies From the Yanquis Who Loved Him

Absurd Elegies

He wasn’t authoritarian enough. He understood democracy. He was groovy. Michael Moynihan collects five of the dumbest love letters to the departed Venezuelan comandante.

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There was something North Korean about the funeral cortege, with Hugo Chávez’s casket winding through the dilapidated streets of Caracas, Venezuela, followed by a crush of weeping, wailing supporters.

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