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The economics of Hugo Chavez

March 7th, 2013 · 6 Comments

Latin American Caudillo rides commodity boom.

Nope, we’ve never seen that before now have we?

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  • 1 Matthew L // Mar 7, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    The Cuban government have praised Hugo Chavez saying that he embodied revolutionary socialism.

    Presumably they mean dead after a long period of rotting away from the inside.

  • 2 Shinsei1967 // Mar 7, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    Fortunately for Chavez he actually had what most lefties here assume we have – a magic money tree (in guisebofvmassive oil reserves). Unfortunately Snr Chavez still seems to have run a disastrous economy.

  • 3 jorge c. // Mar 7, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    Chávez was a bad copy of Juan Domingo Perón, and Perón was a bad copy of… Benito Mussolini. I am a 68 years old uruguayan, who remembers Perón very well. Argentina is still suffering from Perón’s governments

  • 4 Serf // Mar 7, 2013 at 8:19 pm

    ….Fortunately for Chavez he actually had what most lefties here assume we have

  • 5 johnny bonk // Mar 7, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    @serf
    there is a magic money tree, though you have threaten it rather than shake it.

  • 6 So Much For Subtlety // Mar 8, 2013 at 10:26 am

    We have rarely seen so much ar$e licking from the mainstream Left. Since the end of Stalinism, they seem berefit. I suppose every Wormtongue needs someone Great and Powerful to serve. If Mordor has fallen then some operatic semi-heroic buffoon far away will do.

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