Mensch

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(/mɛntʃ/)
Noun

1. A person of strength, integrity and honor or compassion.
2. A gentleman.

…People were nostalgic for the era of bourgeois democracy, for a Venezuela that worked. Not a soldier, not a raving messiah in a red beret, but a mensch in a baggy business suit who knew how to run a government.

From the post: How Venezuela went from a wealthy South American country to a failing state
Source: Venezuela, a Failing State (newyorker.com)