Publius Pundit has a roundup of coverage and analysis of Hugo Chavez's current Dictators Around the World World Tour. Especially worth watching are his stops in Belarus, where he played swap the spit with "the last dictator in Europe," and in Russia, where he closed the deal on $3 billion worth of fighter jets, helicopters and other armaments — weaponry that poses a direct threat to the United States and others of Venezuela's neighbors.
Among the highlights of PP's roundup are an editorial earlier this week in, Investor's Business Daily that warns that Venezuela is becoming a proxy in a new Cold War between Chavez's allies in the former Soviet Union and the United States; and an essay in Devil's Excrement laying out the ominous lessons Chavez picked up in Belarus about how to deal with domestic opposition.
Mini-Me told his Bealrussian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, "There are many possibilities now for forming a strategic alliance to save the world from ... color revolutions," referring to the Orange Revolution (Ukraine), Denim Revolution (Belarus) and other popular uprisings against autocrats like, well, Chavez.
Chavez is still a dictator-in-training, but on this trip, which continues today in Iran, he is picking up the final courses he needs to graduate to the big time of low-life leaders.
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