Reply #94: Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade

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The parallels between the rise of fascism in Europe and what Chavez and his compatriots are up to in Latin America are chilling.

Granted, I understand your point about the Holocaust and don't see Chavez doing anything comparable against some ethnic or religious group. But the way he manipulates people by playing one group against another and twists the institutions of democracy to give himself absolute power is straight out of 1930s Germany.