In 2007, eight years after becoming Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez revoked the license of the country's oldest private television station. Eight months into his second term, President Donald Trump suggested revoking the licenses of U.S. television stations he believes are overly critical of him.

Since he returned to office in January, Trump’s remaking of the federal government into an instrument of his personal will has to elected strongmen in other countries who used the levers of government to consolidate power, and .

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