Rest In Peace Hugo. I apologize for the personal attacks by those who had weak arguments in opposition to your views and beliefs. Allying with the IRI & Syria was not wise for humanity because of who the IRI and Syria are and what they do to their own people. What you not could see was that the IRI and Venezuela do not have a common opponent, because the USA in fact loves the extremism of the IRI for Iranians and not only helped to bring them to power, but has done everything it can to covertly keep them in power in particular the political policies it pursues, despite the IRI's crimes and unpopularity.

That's how it always starts: a poor boy, but later a big mouth in an oil-rich country. Chavez and Ahmadinejad both were poor in 2 different countries, but their legacies of pugnacious thuggery are strikingly similar. Both boasted the demise of the United States, while the former rests in peace (I guess), and the latter is fighting for his political life. Meanwhile, the US adds more jobs to its economy and inches toward supremacy once again.

History has already made that judgement about this guy. Karl Marx referred to people like him and his ilk as lumpenproletariat. He is gone, so will his autocratic rule of one man forever. Other lumpens in south America are in line to depart including Ortega.

IRI just announced they are going to send two planes loaded with 200 seenehzan, zanjeerzan, and ghamehzan with one big 12-teegh Alaam for the funeral procession of Chavez.

Any friend of IRI regime is an enemy of Iranian people. May his buddies, khamenie and antarinejad join him soon. Amen.

The same Iranian leftists who seem repentant of their Leninist past, such as usurping power by violent means including coup d'etat, still praise him in spite of the fact that he was arrested for a botched attempted coup. When a coup has a significant name after it like "28 Mordad," our lefties are quick to condemn it and remind everyone of it for 60 years. But, when puppets like Noor Mohamad Taraki in Afghanistan or populist madmen like Chavez in Venezuela do it, they become role models. No wonder our lefties were routed out by the Mullahs for their utopistic outlook. Their remainders are probably listening to a poem by A. Sayeh and weeping as we speak

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There is so much misinformation in your comment that I don't know where to begin! You got only one thing right, as far as Chavez's wrong doings go. He abolished the term limits. He gave into US hostility and abolished the term limits, so that he could stay in power and carry on with his reforms. Nonetheless it was done legally and through the elected institutions in Venezuela.

What exactly makes him a dictator? Is it that he won four elections by popular vote? Or that he did not shut down pro-US media outlets, which openly advocated for a US backed coup? You do realize that if CNN would openly support a coup in the US and the coup fails, not only would CNN be shut down, but the management and staff would be put on trial and likely executed. Or is it that all socioeconomic indicies show that life of the average Venezuelan has improved during Chavez's presidency? Oh, I know what the reason is! The US government says that he is a dictator, therefore he is a dictator. But, all the tinpot dictators that US government has supported and propped up around the world are not dictators!

Chavez won with a higher percentage of the popular vote than both Bush and Obama, and he didn't win by fraud and help from the supreme court like Bush. So what qualifies him as a dictator? He made deals with the likes of Ahmadinejad? American and European leaders consistently shake hands with and make deals with the Saudis, African dictators, etc. How come they don't get burnt for it!? When Clinton, Bush, and Obama shake hands with the Saudi despots, does that make them dictators?

Since his election, US tried unsuccessfully to do to Venezuela what it did to Cuba. And the results created problems in Venezuela. However, look at the actual statistics from NGO's and international sources. Venezuela improved under Chavez, and no matter how much you spread misinformation and how much US presidents bang on the table, that fact can not be altered. Blindly parroting US government propaganda is not really working anymore. It's very easy to verify information these days. If you honestly care about democracy, forget about what CNN says about Chavez. Take a look at the actual data.