Hugo Chavez is little more than a power-hungry autocrat on an anti-American public relations tour — a showboat whose speech to the United Nations was an embarrassment and an insult to the American people. That he would criticize the United States as he rolls back democratic and economic reforms in his own country is typical of the dictators who oppress their people in the name of the same ideals as the tyrants of the 20th century. While Chavez hopes for America’s demise, I have faith the Venezuelan people will reject Chavez’s discredited Marxism and return to the path of true reform and peaceful coexistence with their neighbors.