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3/9/13

France: French minister says: World ‘needs dictators like Chavez

Vistorin Lurel, Minister of Overseas France, was impressed by the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s funeral and said on Saturday that the world needed “more dictators” like him.

“The world needs more dictators like Hugo Chavez,” Minister of Overseas France Victorin Lurel said on Saturday after attending the late Venezuelan leader’s funeral.

Lurel described Chavez as a cross between Charles de Gaulle and reforming left-winger Léon Blum, who served three times as French prime minister.

“De Gaulle because he profoundly changed his country’s institutions, and Blum because he fought relentlessly against injustice,” he told RTL radio.

“I’ll be criticized for saying this, but the world needs more dictators like Hugo Chavez, if it’s a dictator that he actually was. He showed a strong respect for human rights.”

Read more: French minister: World ‘needs dictators like Chavez' - FRANCE-VENEZUELA - FRANCE 24

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