Chavez ranks at the bottom of regional leaders

Andreas Oppenheimer:

Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez is not getting his money's worth for the billions of dollars he is spending in public relations abroad: According to a new poll, his approval ratings in Latin America could hardly be worse.

The newly released poll of 20,200 people in 18 Latin American countries conducted by Latinobarómetro, a Chilean-based firm, shows that when asked to evaluate foreign leaders on a scale from zero to 10 -- with zero being ``very bad'' and 10 being ``very good'' -- Latin Americans gave Chávez the worst rating among a list of 17 regional and world leaders.

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At the bottom of the list are Cuba's behind-the-scenes ruler Fidel Castro, with 4 points, and Chávez, with 3.9.

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He gets his lowest rating in Colombia and Mexico where his approval rating is 12 and 13 percent respectively. It is not surprising that money cannot buy him love. The US has proved that for years. It does suggest that he will have difficulty spreading the evils of socialism.