I think I understand what Victorin Lurel is trying to say with his remarks.
It is not considered polite to speak approvingly of the late Chavez in the Nations of Virtue. Not when the Big Dog on Team NATO has long painted Chavez with the same brush once used to such comic effect on the "axis of evil."
So Lurel throws that "dictatorship" label into his remarks to show he's a team player before going on to make admiring remarks about el comandante.
Don't think it's going to fool anybody. Don't think it's going to speed up the arrival of NATO assistance for Hollande's reckless and rudderless adventure in Mali.
Hollande's Socialist Party has far more in common with Chavez than it does with the neocons in Washington. In both cases the economy is seen as being subservient to the needs of the society.
In Britain and North America the folks in power truly believe that society must conform to the demands of the economy.
So Lurel has it absolutely right. We all know that Chavez was no dictator by any stretch of the imagination, but we understand the political expediencies that required Lurel to throw that word in there.
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