Is there any OBJECTIVE analysis of Chavez available? [View All]

I don't really knopw what to make of Hugo Chavez.

I've been hearing about him for a number of years, but it always seems to be through a filter of one side or the other.

Some portray him as an honest populist reformer, who is leading a social movement to bring greater economic and political justice to his country and to all of Latin America.

Others call him a classic bullyboy dictator, who is corrupt, Communist and interested more in his own power than anything else.

And there are some mixed reviews, saying that he is sincere in his beliefs, but unstable and irrational in his leadership style.

Are there any reasonably balanced sources of information about him -- both personally and politically -- that one can make an objective assessment of him, without pushing an agenda one way or the otehr?