To: OddLane
Amazingly, Time does a pretty good job of laying the blame for this tragedy squarely on Chavez’s Socialism. It goes through in detail how him implemented Socialism and when it failed (like price controls), he relied on spending the oil wealth to cover it up and maintain his popularity.
19 posted on
08/10/2016 10:26:38 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard; BenLurkin; JimSEA
Ioan Grillo is actually a fantastic British journalist who covers Latin America.
He wrote a great book about the Mexican drug cartels, El Narco, which I reviewed a few years ago.
38 posted on
08/10/2016 12:20:33 PM PDT by
OddLane
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