[proud_yank]

Chavez has given voice to the poor, or made those screams louder by creating more poor?

I found this article rather amusing.

[Sonny M]

This isn't said in the article (slopply journalism), buts mostly a "stalinists versus Trotskyies" type of issue.

Different groups on the left do have variations, that, without an enemey to attack, turn on each other.

Think of how in the aftermath of globalization riots Anarchists start being up and attacking marxists, etc.

[proxy_user]

Chavez will call them CIA agents and capitalist roaders, round them up, and lock them away.

[Sonny M]

It would help if more people realized that outside of hatred to America and a loathing of capitalism, most of these groups are actually natural enemies of each other.

[randog]

But as it goes into its sixth year, critics say it has lost much of its spontaneity and grass-roots activism.

IOW, it got too "commercial" for them.

[Ptarmigan]

I like it when trash takes on trash. :)

[MillerCreek]

Chavez and his socialists (and some of ours, unfortunately, who are being romanced by Chavez) don't want anyone to write about how many people are now even MORE POOR than they were before Chavez, right there in Venezuela.

Try buying coffee beans from a farmer. Ooops, Chavez thought he just "had to nationalize" the industry.

Have a car? Oooops, Chavez just "has to nationalize" that vehicle (protect you from yourself).

Chavez is just beating his chest and indulging who he regards as useful tools so he and Castro can ride a higher profile lustre, just as Castro's been doing his entire life.

And Castro's eventual, fifty-years in development national product? A rice cooker. Nationalized, of course.

[MillerCreek]

Does anybody question WHY Chavez just "had to nationalize" the coffee industry? The land, agriculture, crops...think it through.