[SmithL]

Hugo's policies seem to be working.

[seppel]

In South Africa the ANC has instrumentalised violent crime in order to (successfully) achieve ethnic cleansing. That's why in crimes the cops either do not arrive, or only a few hours after the crime, and many prosecutions are dropped. By using violent crime the government can always shake off accusations of ethnic cleansing.

The main reason whites leave South Africa is crime. 20 years ago, the government would simply have put their militias in to kill the whites (like Mugabe does), but the ANC has a Human Rights Image to try and maintain, and do not want international isolation like Zimbabwe, so they use violent crime.

Seems the same pattern here. After all, all these types are buddies: Chavez, Mugabe, Mbeki (ANC), PLO etc.

[mtntop3]

And to end this crime wave, caused by the remnants of anti-socialist behavior, it will naturally be necessary to further curtail bourgeois democracy and to fully liberate the masses by having their vanguard assume direct and total control of all "information services" (formerly called a "free press" by the capitalistic degenerates.)

[Doc91678]

Yeah, I think he is promoting the violence. He claims America wants to invade him. That is just a sham. As dictator he will use the violence to cement his position. However, the people are either too smart to accept him as a dictator or they are so ignorant that they will follow him. Those that oppose him will die in the violence that he is behind.

[marron]

Hugo's brand of populism essentially justifies crime, and it has unleashed hell like nothing Venezuela has ever known before.

Venezuela has always leaned toward populist anger, and it has always been violent. But never in living memory has a president declared war on productive society so openly. We can only hope that a generation of Chavist rule will innoculate them against this heresy in the future.

I doubt it, though. Without something to displace it, it reappears generation after generation. It can't be displaced by nothing.

[Antoninus]

Chavez is basically a mafia don with a country. Is anyone surprised that crime is out of control when a criminal is running things?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Chavez's socialist utopia.

[Billthedrill]

Venezuela is among the most violent places in Latin America, and critics of President Hugo Chavez are increasingly accusing him of failing to make crime a priority.

Huey's only one guy, f'Petessake. He's stealing as fast as he can.

[PsyOp]

I wouldn't be suprised if much of the violence is being perpetrated by those in his regime at his orders. That way, when hammers that final nail in Venezuala's coffin he can say "I had to do it to stop capitalist criminals".

Agents provocateur... a well-worn and proven commie tool.

[hosepipe]

Wait until Hugo gets a stomach full of anarchy..
The idiot just bought a boatload of Kalashnikovs from Russia..
His "army" and armorys will need "protection" from the people who WANT those shootin irons.. i.e. ambush an army patrol and get "ARMED"...

[goresalooza]

I thought YUGO had everything under control. When is he going to ban arms from his citizens? LOL...I thought it was only the evil Bush regime and the USA who allowed guns.

[Outland]

From the article....

"Chavez ... regularly launches into tirades against wealthy Venezuelans. 'The rich are condemned to hell. Christ himself condemned them,' Chavez said in a speech Tuesday. 'I say it from the heart: to be rich is evil.'"

The important difference was that Christ was not a communist.

[Tribune7]

Somebody's shrugging. I think his name starts with an A.

[garyhope]

I can't believe that Chavez is going to last much longer. I don't think he's all that bright or connected with reality that deeply.

On the other hand, Castro is still there running that walled off asylum existing on handouts stolen from communist victims of corrupt and failed regimes.