In 2014, the late night show Chataing TV was pulled out of air by the executives of the network due to pressures from the Venezuelan government. They were trying to censor their political comments, claiming the show was biased toward the enemies of the homeland and low on view rates...

After Chavez died, the government created a campaign with the # HereWeDoNotTalkIllAboutChavez, looking to single out their oposition and label them tractors and unpatriotic

In 2009, the national bolivarian police was created to unify control over police in one centralized national government. The effect, no forces to oppose the government actions

Chavistas very often defined oposition parties as criminal organizations using fake, exaggerated, or uncontextualized arguments. This doomed democratic values in Venezuela.

As soon as he returned to power, Chavez rewrote the perception of what happened in his failed coup d'etat. Depicting the perpetrators as heroes

Chavez used to say that the revolution will remain peaceful unless the opposition provoke them

During the first months of his presidency, Chavez invited Castro to Venezuela and shared with him his public appearances. The idea was to clean the image of a foreign leader who looked to the public opinion as antagonistic to the Venezuelan people.

Since the venezuelan government lost is popular conection; it is using christian evangelicals as the grassroots militia to maintain support is low income groups.

Hugo Chavez took control of the most important theater of the country and only allowed performances that were aligned with his political agenda. The control of the culture will assure him control of the masses.

Chavez also knew he had to control the narrative so he started limited access for the press to his briefings at the presidential place and empowering "alternative" media sources more aligned with his ideology. He applied pressure to universities that distended his worldview by cutting public funding

After returning to power, Chavez reshaped public force organization. Eliminated the metropolitan police that protected the capital and created the national polices under his control.

"Our available decisions in life are the result of choices made by others that shape the world we live in," Sam Harries

No argument in politics should be to kill or die for

The movies I enjoy the most are adaptations of books I read.

If this year I get a tax refund, I will continue my lavish life of buying eggs. A full dozen!

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When the galactic commander returned to power after being ousted by his opposition. He came back with a speech of national unity and forgiveness. But quickly started a night of long knives within his political allies, retribution to his foes, and radicalization of his policies... just saying!