re: #165 Liberal Classic

The situation in Venezuela is not good. Chavez has neutralized the judicary, gagged the press, and polarized the country. It’s easy to read about political repression in Venezuela. Sources are ample, as I’m sure you’d agree. However, ‘totalitarian’ is just too strong a word.

Then we disagree, I think the word does fit the current and future situation for Venezuela.
What other word for the form of Government currently in power there applies better?