Why don't the people of Venezuela overthrow the dictatorship?

I challenge Nick Malik and Al Carroll to go to Venezuela as residents, not tourists, and spend and extended period of time in Caracas to see if after that time their views remain the same. read more

What makes a person a dictator is not how he got there initially, but how he wields power and how he treats every new election once he is a ruler. There will be people that will say that Chavez and his anointed successor Nicolas Maduro were voted in, but so was Hitler. read more

Which is why today, mixed with the genuine anger at the subversion of our constitutional right to a recall, you can detect just a hint of gratitude for the clarity this brings. We’re rid of the adjectives. We are finally through with the academic circumlocutions. There’s no need to hyphenate it anymore. Venezuela is just a dictatorship. read more