Posted on 03/06/2013 6:08:36 AM PST by tflabo
This was Chávez’s reign and his legacy; extralegal, vindictive, and interested in the short-term gesture rather than the more difficult, long-term solution. From his revolutionary comrades in Cuba, he borrowed the slogan “patria, socialismo o muerte”—fatherland, socialism or death. The fatherland is a shambles, Bolivarian socialism has failed, and Comandante Chávez is dead. May the “revolution” die with him.
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Every autocrat, dictator, tyrant, theocrat, and oligarch needs to be seized by the ordinary people, beaten and kicked half to death and screamed at and spat upon, hanged high in public while television cameras record the scene for posterity and people dance and sing for joy, and cremated and his ashes dumped in a garbage pit.
Hey Wolf —Mussolini went out with the send off nearly as you described however Chavez will be given honors and adorations he does not deserve. Chavez learned his craft well sitting at the feet of his cigar chomping bearded master.
No time to cheer, there has to be another despot in the wings ready to take over. The cash flow is there to support him. There will be blood in the streets.
Is the big O going to declare a national mourning and order all US flags flown at half staff?
Well he just got one of the three.
Hey, Hugo, you left your “friends” behind. Please take them with you.
Good riddance to bad trash!
Sounds like the obit is about The Lazy One in the oval office.
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