[Opinionated Blowhard]

Amazingly, Time does a pretty good job of laying the blame for this tragedy squarely on Chavez’s Socialism. It goes through in detail how him implemented Socialism and when it failed (like price controls), he relied on spending the oil wealth to cover it up and maintain his popularity.

[OddLane]

Ioan Grillo is actually a fantastic British journalist who covers Latin America.

He wrote a great book about the Mexican drug cartels, El Narco, which I reviewed a few years ago.