The Government under Chavez did not respect individual rights and regarded the state as being above the law. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, body of Organisation of American States, found Chavez of human rights abuses on 13 occasions up to 2011. ..…

'And in a United States that has become more unequal than many Latin American nations, are there any constructive lessons to be learned from Chavez's grand experiment with more aggressive redistribution?' ..…