First of all, I need to make a suggestion, If someone feel sympathy for the dictators that I mentioned before, please don’t take this article as a personal attack an consider it as a simply opinion.
In order to understand my comment I think that we have to remember some parts of the first chapter of the book: the dictator’s dichotomy between himself and the external world, the authoritarian and compulsive of his personality, the paranoid of his thoughts and the rudeness of his norms.
I the Supreme, I think, is the best description of the dictators that Latin America have nowadays. The different faces of the supreme, can describe the Chavez personality and the maquiavelism of the presidents behavior and the Castro´s dictatorship period.
Hugo Chavez
In 2007 Chavez ordered to close RCTV, the last private TV station that Venezuela had. Among that TV Station, the Chavez detractors were criticizing the government.
In I the supreme, the president has fear of everybody, even the prisoners in the jail or Patiño or all the people in the country. This fear is demonstrated by Chavez; when he started to think that RCTV represented a barrier to his goals, he had fear about the power of the TV and then he decided to close it.
The personality of the president in I the supreme is rude and compulsive. The supreme is always insulting to everybody. Then again, Hugo Chavez is always insulting everybody, the last year he said that Vicente Fox was “el cachorro del imperio” (the United States pet).
The supreme doesn’t have trust in anybody, then again almost all the Chavez employees has been fired, and some of them now are enemies of the president.
Fidel Castro
Maybe Fidel Castro is not as rude or compulsive as Hugo Chavez, but if I think in Cuba, I think in a country that has been in a long dictatorship. The supreme is 84 years old! The Castro´s age!
Then again, all the dictatorships in Latin America have similar characteristics and, therefore, the dictatorship novels can be interrelated. For more information, check the next post!
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That was a really interesting interpretation of the supreme! Some of the similarities that you mentioned between Dr. Francia and Chavez could arguably be quite accurate. I think another event which stroke fear in Chavez was his referendum loss last December, now that he should constitutionally leave power in 2013. Just to point out one thing, RCTV was not the last private channel in Vzla. Globovision and Venevision are 2 other private media networks that still exist.
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