Venezuela and Chavez
This my response to a Venezuelan friend/resident, who asked me if I'd observed direct evidence of Chavez' likely alcoholism:
I have found nothing about Chavez directly. I have confirmed that most megalomaniac tyrants have been alcohol or other drug addicts. Addiction to psychotropic drugs (those capable of causing distortions of perception and memory in susceptible individuals) causes egomania. The reason for this is a key distortion that all alcoholics experience, one that makes them think that everything they do or say during a drinking episode is good and right, nothing bad or wrong. In other words, it makes them view everything they do/say in a self-favoring light. If you are always right and never wrong, you must be God.
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