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Joinfortmill

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6. Here it is...

Reply to Gaugamela (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 12:51 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Grandin

My words: The bold is mine

'After the death of Chávez, Grandin published a lengthy obituary in The Nation, opining that "the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasn't authoritarian enough."[

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