Posted on 07/11/2009 5:00:16 PM PDT by newbie2008
When they first elected him in 1998, Venezuelans hoped that Hugo Chávez would be a healer. Instead what they got was a tyrant who seizes private companies and farms, crushes labor unions, and harasses political opponents. And now after a decade of the so-called Bolivarian revolution, tens of thousands of disillusioned Venezuelan professionals have had enough. Artists, lawyers, physicians, managers, and engineers are leaving the country in droves. An estimated 1 million Venezuelans have moved away since Chávez took power, and a study by the Latin American Economic System, an intergovernmental research institute, reports that the outflow of highly skilled labor from Venezuela to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries rose 216 percent between 1990 and 2007.
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It happens in most socialist totalitarian gov’ts......Sadly we are on the way to the same fate in the USA. I have heard Rush talk about friends asking about escaping to other countries..
and now they “democratize” 240 radio stations
Sadly for Venezuela, my tagline is appropriate.
There’s clearly an industrial-sized drain at the base of Hugo Chavez’s brainpan.
exactly like californians electing the creeps they elected and then moving other places and continuing to vote the same way
It happens every time people elect someone that promises “to solve all their problems”.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
“Peoples Radio Network”
There’s going to have to come a time in which the Venezuelan people are going to overthrow Chavez.
You will find that many of those “Californians” aren’t Californians at all. They are simply people that move around like locust devouring what ever is still growing.
Hondurans have more balls than Venezuelans. At least they did something about it.
“When they first elected him in 2008, Americans hoped that Barack Obama would be a healer. Instead what they got was a tyrant who seizes private companies and farms, bails out labor unions, and harasses political opponents. And now after a decade of the so-called Obama revolution, tens of thousands of disillusioned American professionals have had enough. Artists, lawyers, physicians, managers, and....”
that was all too easy and most probably a harbinger of an article to be written in 2018. I think i changed a half dozen words.
I have a friend who married a wealthy Venezuelan businessman about 15 years ago. I am quite sure that he got the heck out of there before Chavez “nationalized” his business and stole his money.
Give a few more years and we’ll have another Zimbabwe that the media ignores.
Then walls go up to prevent people from leaving.
It is like a recipe.
“a tyrant who seizes private companies and farms, crushes labor unions, and harasses political opponents.”
This is how MSM Newsweek describes Chavez. And our president supports him!
How long until America wakes up and realizes they’ve put guy who, literally, “pals around with terrorists” in the white house?
Something along these lines happened to California starting in the late 1980’s, which is a major reason why they’re having their budget woes.
Do you mean The Devils Excrement? I read that one as well as Caracas Chronicals.
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