So, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died on March 5th and people are out dancing on his grave...

So people say he was an evil dictator? Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. But, while history sorts that question out, let us first do some comparisons, shall we?

Between the United States and Venezuela:

• Which country has the most people per capita, in prison?
• Which country has warrantless surveillance programs?
• Which country routinely kills unarmed foreigners with drone strikes, without due process?
• Which country uses drones to watch over its own populace?
• Which country imprisons peaceful protesters?
• Which country has police gangs that run around shooting at people they THINK are suspects, without even determining that they are in fact suspects?

The answer: we've got plenty of our own problems to be calling Chavez a dictator.