#jonkelly

It's not polite to speak ill of the dead, however this is exactly what the BBC, specifically - Jon Kelly, has done by comparing the recently departed Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez to Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi.

Chavez was known for being flamboyantly outspoken against uninvited, aggressive US foreign policy - as is arguably healthy to do so for the benefit of the global political narrative. His leadership certainly divided opinion in relation to the middle classes, infrastructure maintenance and policing corruption.  

“If Barack Obama died tomorrow, he too would 'leave behind a bitterly divided nation.' The difference between Chavez and Obama is that the latter has done virtually nothing for the poor. It is the USA that is a broken, dysfunctional nation; Venezuela does not look so terrible by comparison.”

— Joe Richards, Puerto Natales, Chile 

However, and this is a very important distinction, never did Chavez drop Chemical weapons on a neighbor, nor engage in murderous terrorist attacks spanning decades, nor wage bloody war on his own people. He just didn't like US Foreign Policy. It's a big club. My grandma, Patricia, doesn't much care for it either, does that make her a narco(leptic) bogeywoman? If anything, she was always cleaning up my bogeys..