[backhoe]

the results are in on Chavez' brand of left-wing populism and strong-arm government as an answer to poverty and social ills in Latin America. It doesn't work: Not in Chavez' Venezuela, not in Argentina under Juan Pern in the 1950s, not in Peru under that country's left-leaning military junta of the 1970s, not in Sandinista Nicaragua in the 1980s nor, indeed, anywhere

That is correct, and the lesson to be learned from this nasty little dust-up. The casualties are a shame, but it could have been a lot worse.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The casualties are a shame, but it could have been a lot worse.

Just look at Cuba. A lot of Venezuelans did and left the country thinking what 40 years of a Chavez dicatorship would be like.