Con Chavez Todo

This is an extremely well-written, even-handed, and nuanced account of Hugo Chavez's politics in Venezuela. It describes:

the often high-stakes and always high-decibel struggle that has raged for years between Chávez's supporters and his critics, with each side fully convinced that it is protecting Venezuelan democracy from the other. Unfortunately, the substance of their competing claims has been largely drowned out by polemics that reduce the country's complex political dynamics to a single question: is Chávez a dictator or a democrat?

This does seem to be a very difficult question. On the whole I probably lean toward dictator - the real test will come when the people try to vote him out of power, and my guess is he will not go gracefully - but I certainly had failed to understand some of his accomplishments.

I found this from Matt Yglesias's blog.