The Socialist Dream Crumbles in Venezuela

[PoS]

[The Comrade]

rabble rabble socialism rabble rabble

[PoS]

[The Comrade]

i've always enjoyed your self-deprecating humor

[Showboat]

Well at least Chavez managed to stash away a few billion tax free for his family.... Not all bad you see!

[exploited]

I know one thing for sure: as a democratic socialist, my main source of inspiration is Venezuela.

[Homer]

[spacemonkey]

Rumor has it they even put coca back in their cola,lol.

[Professor]

[Spider]

In late September, the government ordered the army into the country’s largest toilet paper factory as supplies dried up. Mr Maduro blamed the shortage on Venezuelans “eating more”.

That is fantastic.

Mr Maduro has tried to capitalise on the almost cult-like devotion to his predecessor, declaring himself the “son of Chavez” and attempting to emulate his thundering rhetoric. He has related on national television how he often sleeps in the late president’s mausoleum. He has even, he claims, been visited by the spirit of Chavez in the form of a small bird.

Awesome.

“Maduro uses the idea of economic war to blame others for his own shortcomings,” said Jesus Perez, the head of the Caracas School of Economics. “Actually, the war on Venezuela is being waged by our own government.”

“The government expropriates Venezuelan businesses which then don’t produce because the socialist state doesn’t run them effectively,” he added.

Over and over again this centrally planned economics nonsense has been tried, with exactly the same predictably disastrous results. If it doesn't fit don't force it.