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...Spin Dictators develops themes outlined in excellent recent studies such as Archie Brown’s The Myth of the Strong Leader (2014), Paul Hollander’s From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chávez: Intellectuals and a...
...To his critics, he is another Hugo Chávez. But that comparison is overblown. Chávez was a tank commander who steamrollered his opposition....
...“I will be like Benito Juárez . . . a man of the nation.”...
...Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler are case studies of demagogues turned into despots. It is not hard to think of recent examples, from Hugo Chávez to Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin....
...Chavez comes from the military....
...A recent oil spill not only throws light on the chaotic way in which state oil company PDVSA is run, but it has also exposed vicious infighting amongst Chávez’s supporters, with José Gregorio Briceño, the...
...The former lieutenant-colonel, who once called Venezuela’s radical leftist president Hugo Chavez a close ally, has put his old army training officer in the prime minister’s chair....
...Protesters, lead by Cajamarca’s regional president, Gregorio Santos, have already warned they will not accept the findings....
...“The tax restructure of mining will require a very big reform,” said Benito Berner, economist at Nomura Securities....
...up “hung with his head down” like Italian dictator Benito Mussolini....
...Benito Mussolini 69. Alex Ferguson 70. Guy Fawkes 71. Robert Mugabe 72. General George Patton 73. Ségolène Royal, French Socialist politician 74. Margaret Thatcher 75. Jimmy Carter 76....
...Nicaragua is caught between a new friend and an old enemy For as long as anyone cares to remember, José Benito Estrada Ceveño has been living with his 11 children on the outskirts of Managua in a clapboard...
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