Venezuelan Middle Class Flees Chavez Rule Of Hate

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-5-2006 | Sophie Arie

[blam]

Atlas is beginning to shrug down south.

[Dammit]

We need to take the gloves off and do what he accuses of doing.

Pushing him out of power.

Shove him, if necessary.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

It is sad to see another country being destroyed by socialism. If the productive Middle and Upper Classes leave the country, Venezuela will become another socialist "paradise" like Cuba.
Pinochet, for all his faults saved Chile from the same thing, perhaps there is a Venezuelan Pinochet?

[Tzimisce]

'Rich is bad.'

Millionaire liberal Democrats have been saying this for years.

Think the masses will turn against millionaire Hugo Chavez?

[inkling]

Marcial Rivera, a 30-year-old business graduate, packed his bags and left for neighbouring Colombia this week.

You know your country is circling the drain when people are fleeing to Colombia for prosperity and stability.

[kingu]

Wow; an article from the mainstream press that doesn't put Chavez on a pedestal. Almost frightening. But Chavez is pretty low down the list right now. In a year or three when he gets nuclear weapons, then we'll have to deal with him, because that's how the whole idiocy works.

Of course, Chavez will declare himself president for life first.

[LegendHasIt]

The only things that surprise me are:
That it didn't start much sooner;
That it hasn't collapsed into TOTAL chaos by now.

[Dont Mention the War]

"Visit Scenic Venezuela: A Little Touch of Zimbabwe in South America!"

[Brilliant]

"Ever since Hugo Chávez was elected [in 1998] he has been fomenting hatred for those who have, among those who have not. 'Rich is bad.' That's his message. So the people who follow him have decided it's not just the world's superpower they hate, it's people like me too."

Sounds like the Democratic Party.

[kittymyrib]

Before our oil workers leave, they need to sabotage the place.

[jimfree]

The Zimbabwe of South America?

[Brilliant]

Demand for Venezuelan passports is reported to be so high that the Chávez government has rationed the number of requests it can handle per day, pleading a shortage of passport-making materials.

Why doesn't he just build a wall around his country? And why are these people waiting for passports?

[Dane]

"When I told them the price, which was just a few dollars, they started yelling at me that it was far too much," Mrs García recalled. "You're a thief! You're all thieves! You just came to this country to steal from the poor," the men shouted before marching out of the shop

They sound like some of the economic "geniuses" on FR.

[Smokin' Joe]

'Rich is bad.'

Sounds familliar. This has long been a mantra of the Left here as well.

Years ago, an Indian (American, not Asian) lady I knew sat at my kitchen table drinking coffee and railing about "the rich white man". I let her spool on for a while, waiting for specifics, but it was the same programmed bit.

I knew she worked in social services, but had thought her an exception to the ordinary knee jerk programmed social serpent (there are a rare few). I graciously offered her a refill, and then asked her "Say, just who the F*ck is this rich white man anyway? Do I know him? I'm white and I'm not rich."

The whole schpiel fell apart right there. (So did any shot at a relationship, but I had seen that writing on the wall from other things).

Unfortunately, the MSM and just about any source of victim enablement doctrine has been pushing this same socialist 'class' envy for a long time. It naturally falls in with a tendency to be envious of others' accomplishments by those who refuse to accept any of the blame for their own lack of achievement.

The media even use that same line of groupthink against corporations which are successful: "Big" Tobacco, oil, steel, etc.

Chavez will use it to mercilessly exploit the poorest, as any socialist dictator would.

[billorites]

"We need to take the gloves off and do what he accuses of doing."

Have patience.

All in good time.

This isn't like an Iranian nuclear thingy.

Chavez, and the hapless Venezulean majority who support him, will pay the price in time.

[Smokin' Joe]

Chavez will declare himself president for life first.

Cool! Term limits...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

They sound like some of the economic "geniuses" on FR.

Isn't that the truth. These are people who can't figure out the area of a rectangle, but have no problem at all micromanipulating prices in a multi-trillion dollar economy.

[kcar]

But at least we know that the vote for this guy was fair (Jimmy Carter certified it).

[Clintonfatigued]

Are these people scattering in all directions, or are they mostly emigrating to a specific place?

[operation clinton cleanup]

My ex-wifes family fled Caracas in 1990.. crime was on the rise before Hugo seized power. The problem is his cure is worse than the original problem. My Father-in-law was an engineer at Ford there, and they had to have a 24 hour security guard at their house... and he was NOT rich!