My article from the March 6, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End By Matthew Vadum After a long battle with cancer, Barack Obama’s less media-savvy comrade Hugo Chavez is finally dead. Venezuela’s Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, announced that the communist tyrant died yesterday after seeking medical treatment from the quacks and bunglers laughingly referred to as the Cuban health care system. Hidden away from the public for months, Chavez, whose election in 1999 sparked a leftist revival throughout Latin America, may have actually died some time ago. Chavez will be remembered not only for … Continue reading The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End