And, naturally, a fascist:
President Hugo Chávez has used his decree powers to carry out a major overhaul of this country’s intelligence agencies, provoking a fierce backlash here from human rights groups and legal scholars who say the measures will force citizens to inform on one another to avoid prison terms.
Under the new intelligence law, which took effect last week, Venezuela’s two main intelligence services, the DISIP secret police and the DIM military intelligence agency, will be replaced with new agencies, the General Intelligence Office and General Counterintelligence Office, under the control of Chávez.
The new law requires people in the country to comply with requests to assist the agencies, secret police or community activist groups loyal to Chávez. Refusal can result in prison terms of two to four years for most people and four to six years for government employees.
No different from Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho, Pol Pot…each, in turn, enjoyed their period of gushing support from the American left, and each of whom became a brutal, fascist dictator. Now Chavez. Any leftists out there want to rethink their earlier statements about how he was just fighting off Yankee Imperialism?
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