The Chavez Standard: Say Nice Things or Get Out

Here's this little gem from Foreign Policy Passport on Hugo Chavez kicking out the Americas director of Human Rights Watch.

Hugo Chávez didn't agree with Human Rights Watch's assessment of Venezuela's fall from democratic ways, released in a 230-page report today. He didn't agree that he has "undermined freedom of expression," or that he has undertaken an "aggressively adversarial approach to local rights advocates."

So, with no apparent sense of irony, he kicked out the Americas director of HRW, José Miguel Vivanco (shown here leaving a press conference in Caracas).

Chavez called the organization a front for the United States, though obviously he must have missed this.

The Chavez Standard.

Update: Here is the report by the way, if you have time (lots of time).