http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/22598/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/ny-times-credits-populist-despot-hugo-chavez-empoweringmillions-poor-people <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez is dead of cancer at age 58, the end of a bizarre odyssey that took him to Communist Cuba in a failed attempt at a cure. William Neuman's off-lead story in Wednesday's <em>New York Times</em> credited the left-wing dictator for having "changed Venezuela in fundamental ways, empowering and energizing millions of poor people who had felt marginalized and excluded." </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/ny-times-credits-populist-despot-hugo-chavez-empoweringmillions-poor-people" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Hugo Chavez Obituary Simon Romero Stephen Holden Venezuela William Neuman Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:49:38 +0000 clay.waters 42838 at http://archive2.mrc.org