How Terror Became Chavista Venezuela’s Secret Weapon

Heinrich Himmler once said, “The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.” As one of history’s most notorious war criminals and commander of the Nazi SS, he was intimately familiar with one of the most powerful weapons of war a nation could wield against its enemies. Still used widely around the world today by anti-democratic forces, the weapon of terror is no stranger to Chavista Venezuela. It has been applied as a tactical weapon by the most feared regimes in history, from Hitler’s Germany to Stalin’s Russia. Even McCarthyism threatened certain liberties in the United States when the fear of communism was at its highest. More…