Posted on 09/07/2005 7:22:53 PM PDT by economist-student
Hugo Chávez is birthing. He said that Venezuela is giving birth to 21st-century socialism. What is that?...
Cuban model
Another lesson surely was more valuable to the Venezuelan officers: They understood exactly what the Cuban model is all about, the 21st-Century socialism that Lt. Col. Chávez is spawning. They realized that, in Cuba, the structure of authority consists of a dictator at the top, surrounded by military men who hold the political power, the control of repressive forces and the direction and management of the major enterprises of production.
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Venezuela is rapidly becoming Cuba Part II.
Hey Socialism only killed 100 million in the previous century, let's give it another chance.
He has obviously never read "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek.
They never, ever learn, do they?
Oh, the other FAILED socialist schemes just "didn't do it right!"
How about 21st century MOABs?
21st-century socialism=6th Century Serfdom
It wouldn't be so bad if they stuck to starving and enslaving their own people. Unfortunately Dictators tend to take their act on the road.
Remember, "Nazi" is the German acronym for Nationalist-Socialist.
As long as Chavez puts the standard communist economic model into play, he's no threat. Contrast this to the Chi-Comms, who are making capitalist economic reforms while maintaining a hard-line dictatorship- just like Uncle Adolph did.
The socialist has but three goals:
Slavery, torture and murder.
Chavez refers to his revolution as a "Bolivarian" Revolution after Simon Bolivar. What was Bolivar's goal? Uniting all of South America.
Venezuela is rapidly becoming Cuba Part II.
Chavez seems hell-bent on it. We have another fight in the making.
And Chavez wants to spread this revolution... ut Oh!
Why Chávez seeks a clash with the U.S.
Carlos Alberto Montaner
It's obvious that Hugo Chávez is looking for a confrontation with the United States. He constantly insults President Bush, makes vulgar sexual allusions about Condoleezza Rice, threatens to suspend the supply of crude oil to the United States and wastes not a single chance to associate with the enemies of Washington, be they Iran or Moammar Gadhafi.
At the same time, Chávez funds and helps all subversive movements in Latin America, from Evo Morales' MAS, which is sniping at Bolivia's precarious democracy, to Colombia's communist narco-guerrillas.
Why the irresponsible behavior? It's obvious: Chávez needs a powerful enemy abroad to galvanize his own forces. The chavista leadership -- a gaggle of geese -- is an ill-conceived mishmash of communists, military men lacking in prestige, hot-headed radicals, Cold War zombies like Vice President José Vicente Rangel, and flunkies from the new and official economic class that feeds from the million-dollar oil revenues.
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http://www.firmaspress.com/493.htm
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He also wanted to unite Central America (Including Mexico and Azatlan)
Nah. Serfs only had to pay the lord of the manor 25% of the crops.
Chavez is buying weapons at dirt cheap prices from Russia and China, our supposed allies.
Boy, it was such a hit in the 20th.
He already bought 100,000 russian rifles and several russian-made aircraft, and even more weaponry to come.
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Venezuela kicks off procurement of Russian rifles
During a ceremony at the Venezuelan Ministry of Defense, Minister Jorge Luis García Carneiro signed an agreement entered into by Venezuela and the Russian Federation to purchase 100,000 Kalashnikov AK 103 assault rifles.
Russian Ambassador to Venezuela Mikhail Orlovets, and representatives of both nations attended the ceremony that took place in Simón Bolívar Hall, Ministry of the Defense.
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http://buscador.eluniversal.com/2005/05/17/en_pol_art_17A561107.shtml
Don't think so.
The Americans will finance this Revolution.
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