With the death of Mahmoud Darwish, the Arab world has mourned the loss of one of its greatest poets.

Like the dying tyrant in Gabriel García Márquez s The Autumn of the Patriarch, who righteously lamented the fate that would befall the poor after his passing, Chávez will remain for years to come the saintly benefactor, martyr, and redeemer of the destitute in the eyes of the Venezuelan masses.

Kemerovo journalist Vasily Popok (whom Shipilov distinguishes above as a man willing to do most anything for money and liquor) welcomed this week s verdict , though he later lamented that Shipilov is unlikely to have learned his lesson.