Where's Androcles When You Need Him?

Bob Englehart, 3/6/13:

Hugo Chavez was the fiendish leader of a worldwide organization that daunted American aims at every turn for decades, so we all cheer at his death.

Or was he just the recent leader of a small, minor country whose most offensive action was disagreeing with US policy in ways that didn't actually stop us from doing anything?

Editorial cartoonists -- Englehart is only the one I picked on -- would like you to believe the former.