Probably, we will have to wait on history for that judgment, but he hasn't change the Constitution on the Presidential Term limits, or freedom of the press, he will be gone next year, and we will see if the Dems are as correct in their assessments of the will of the people as to were we want the U.S. to stand in the war on terror, and the direction for the Country its self.
Shutting down the free press is the only thing that makes him look like a tyrant, but that may not be accurate. First of all, I understand that this station was shut down using existing laws of Venezuela rather than some whim of a dictator. Like, he did not renew their license because they did not meet broadcast standards. Second of all, this is the TV station that actually had a direct hand in the coup attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Chavez. In America the things that they say would probably qualify as sedition. In America they possibly would of been declared "enemy combatants" because of their part in trying to overthrow the government.
