NB: Monday’s lead New York Times story by the paper’s Andes bureau chief Nicholas Casey was a grim report on the ongoing societal collapse of Venezuela: “Pillaging by Venezuelans Reveals Depth of Hunger.”
But in typical media fashion, Casey managed to avoid he S-word — socialism — for almost all his report, and in a related interview for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air actually blamed “consumerism” for the country’s woes, while labeling the late socialist dictator Hugo Chavez as a “very much a democrat in a lot of ways.”
How silly. Chavez was very much not a democrat. Rather, he was a Democrat.
hillary is the same type of democrat as chavez and maduro.
obama supported and supports all three.
Socialists/Marxists to the end.
Oh, so it’s now “consumerist” to want to eat bread and wipe your ass with toilet paper?”
Death to Chavez, “El Puerco.”
Venezuela is in this pickle because the government gave away too many televisions and refrigerators? It is impossible to lampoon a leftist because they do such a good job lampooning themselves.
But the observations that all governments are corrupt to varying degrees is accurate – but hardly an argument a socialist should make in favor of socialism.
How dare Venezuelans not be willing to starve to death in order to make Chavez’s Socialism work. Don’t they know how important it is to our leftist elites that they have a least one nation where they aren’t embarrassed by the depredations visited up those only want other people’s things.
Now those lucky Venezuelans no longer need to wonder what happens when socialists run out of other peoples’ money.
I’m wondering when the cannibalism is going to start.
…. yet not one comment from Danny Glover or Sean Penn …..