[mysterio]

I’m sure it will work as well for Chavez as it did for Mugabe.

[Hacklehead]

Hugo is following the Robert Mugabe playbook. Good luck with that.

[bamahead]

"First you get the sugar. Then you get the power. Then you get the WOMEN..."

[American Quilter]

Who says communism is dead?

[bamahead]

ping...

[Old Grumpy]

His Hollywood pals will be proud.

[babble-on]

He’s bipolar. Very dangerous situation down there. He’s going to leave wreckage on the order of Baghdad when they finally get their act together to get rid of him down there.

[Soliton]

Bush should appoint Alan Keyes to Abassador for Noncommunism in South America and give im an office in Caracas.

It won’t help the situation, but Alan could annoy someone else for a change.

[dashing doofus]

A model for Hillary The Beast Clinton to follow if she succeeds in her quest to steal the nomination and then wins the election.

[A_perfect_lady]

The pattern never really varies, does it? I mean, other than speed.

[Rocky]

The DNC should make Hugo an honorary member of the Democratic Party.

[wideawake]

We have to take things away from you for the common good.

[MaxMax]

The voters wanted Chavez, well, they got all of Chavez.
What did they expect to happen, sugar plums and fairy tails?
The voters also wanted the Government to take care of them, yea thats working out swell.

[agere_contra]

in which he is using Venezuela's oil riches to transform the economy

He's doing that all right. The Venezuelan economy is being completely 'transformed'.

[Brad from Tennessee]

One day soon Venezuelan armed forces will seize Hugo Chavez and take him for a helicopter ride into the jungle. It will later be reported he fled the country with trunks of money.

[GulfBreeze]

This guy is going to be gone in a year or two I hope. His people will really be suffering otherwise.

[weegee]

Let this be a lesson to companies that want to offshore and go for foreign production.

The “global economy” they seek depends on stability, liberty, and democracy.

Communist tyrants can seize their property at any time.

Perhaps Corporate Socialism (charitable contributions, PC internal policies) may decline. Companies are just cutting their own throats.

[DustyMoment]

In the Mugabe tradition, let’s see how long it takes for Venezuela to become poor as dirt with people starving in the streets so that Hugo can bring poverty to his people while stealing the bounty that Venezuela has to offer.

Socialism is its own mental disease - just as political egos are.

[bert]

.....the latest in a wave of takeovers that some say is a bid by President Hugo Chavez to regain political momentum and reverse his recent slide in the polls. ...

Oh come on, just name one person who made such a statement.

The socialist nationalization was made to include sugar production within the state control and transfer the management from lawful owners to looter patrons.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

He’s implementing communism. The media aren’t reporting on it because they FAVOR what he’s doing.