Posted on 02/08/2010 5:41:43 PM PST by Kaslin
Socialism: The lights are flickering in oil-rich Venezuela, a victim of the same shortages that appear wherever socialism is tried. With the grid verging on collapse, the final irony is to see Hugo Chavez calling Cuba to fix it.
Most leaders serious about fixing a collapsing power grid call up companies like Bechtel or APR Energy because they're capable of swiftly setting up small power plants in emergencies, even in infrastructure wastelands such as Haiti.
But that's not whom President Hugo Chavez called when he got word that Venezuela's electricity is in a state of collapse and may go black in as little as four months.
Instead, he opted for Ramiro Valdes, a septuagenarian Cuban guerrilla who once fought with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Inside the decrepit Castro regime, Valdes is a high-ranking survivor comparable to functionaries such as Vyacheslav Molotov in Stalin's Russia. Henchman, lackey and torturer, he didn't make it to Cuba's vice presidency by thinking for himself.
In fact, Valdes knows nothing about electricity, other than how to make it as "efficient" as Cuba's. The latter communist island is subject to the same rolling blackouts that now affect Venezuela. The only reason Cuba hasn't gone completely black is the aid it gets from Caracas. Now with Valdes set to do for Venezuela what was done in Cuba, no sugar daddy will be there to bail the country out.
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It’s a shame. Venezuela is on the express train to ruin.
But we have to worry about the Climate!!!!
So, in a non-violent way, Cuba will socket-to-em?
Serves them right! How’s that “hope & change” Venezuela?
Jackasses!
But Hugo and his nomenklatura buddies will get their own gensets, while the rest of the proletariat are kept in the dark. That’s socialism!
But the Venenzuelans can look up and see the shiny new Mig-29’s flying overhead protecting the revolution from capitalist enemies and then look down at eye level at the shiny new Ak-47’s Hugo’s storm troopers are pointing at them. Who needs food electricity and gasoline when you have these glorious totems of Socialism to look at.....
Cuba has always had it’s eye on Venezuela for a takeover.
Back after Castro came to power, there was found on the beach a buried cache of new Canadian made rifles with the coat of arms ground off. A quick touch of fluid caused the crest to show up clearly, it was the coat of arms of CUBA.
Once the Cubans consolidate their hold on Venezuela maybe Ramiro Valdes will give Chavez a personal taste of why Ramiro is known as “The Electrician”.
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