Carter, Hollywood relish in supporting leftist strongman Chavez

By: John Gizzi

When it was all over, Venezuelan’s Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez won a fourth term with a relatively comfortable 54 percent of the vote. As attractive a candidate as challenger Henrique Capriles was, it really didn’t matter in the end. After 14 years in power, Chavez has iron-fisted control over Congress, the courts, trade unions, and the electoral commission. Along with the oil companies, the electricity and telecommunications companies have come under state control. When the conservative Radio Caracas Television (RCT) channel began criticizing the president, Chavez drove them from the airwaves……To Read More….