Hugo's 'Socialist' Folly

ModernConservative.com ^ | David Paulin

[connell]

By David Paulin

Months into his presidency, Hugo Chavez tested the patience of Venezuelans with his frequent weeknight television addresses. Long and rambling, the impromptu talks provoked a common gripe echoed in local newspapers: People were missing their favorate telenovelas.

Venezuelans rebelled after ten months.

Minutes after Chavez began yet another address, they went to their windows holding kitchen spoons and pots. In a traditional Venezuelan protest, they banged them furiously as Chavez recounted his first 300 days in office. The first such protest against El Presidente occurred amid a paralyzed economy and record-low oil prices...

[swatbuznik]

Haha!!

These poor souls have to put up with this little Hitler.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Hugo will just confiscate their pots and pans.

[6SJ7]

Like Cuba’s dollar-based tourism economy, Venezuela’s has a parallel economy because of the controls. Rather than delivering Bolivarian social justice, they’re making the rich, richer – and poor, poorer. They’re also producing “periodic” food shortages that mainly affect the poor.

... those periods being breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

[ripley]

and americans are about to elect a screeching, shouting woman to the presidency, a la hugo chavez.

heil hillary!!!!!