https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/21/chavez-is-not-going-quietly/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 10:22:30 -0400<![CDATA[All this would be more amusing if the stakes were not so high. The demise of Chavez — if that is what is to happen — could open the way to epochal change in a region that for a decade has been divided, and sometimes polarized, between rapidly growing and modernizing democracies such as Mexico, Chile and Brazil and a bloc of authoritarian-minded, anti-American, populist throwbacks led by Venezuela. To be sure, the modernizers won the ideological battle long ago — Chavez’s popularity ratings among Latin Americans are lower than any leader in the hemisphere other than Fidel Castro.]]>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:25:46 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/21/chavez-is-not-going-quietly-n280837