tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post7105246660762342146..comments2024-03-18T19:50:24.376+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Moises Naim explains today's Venezuela for dummiesDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-37230660788143214322010-05-18T13:42:25.920+02:002010-05-18T13:42:25.920+02:00This is excellent stuff. The highlights, to me, a...This is excellent stuff. The highlights, to me, all show the paradox and hypocrisy of Chavez:<br /><br />"If the state does not produce sardines, rice and cement, others can do it. But if it does not ensure that no one is kidnapped or killed when returning from work, then who will?"<br /><br />"We see constantly how the President thunders against speculation and and the corrupt and following that announces measures that everyone knows will stimulate speculation and will provide even more ample and lucrative opportunities for corruption."<br /><br />"It is a pity that millions of Venezuelans have to pay the immense human cost that Chavez' passion have had."<br /><br />"How dangerous and costly is to be part of the opposition and how easy and lucrative it is to be Chavista!"<br /><br />"it is quite revealing that...there is opposition everywhere"<br /><br />"And the President has spent too much time without exercising the muscles that allow you to compromise with those that do not share your ideas"<br /><br />GREAT phrase: "ideological necrophilia"!<br /><br />And finally, though this was in the middle, this sums up the failure of Chavez/Chavismo:<br />"He suffers for the poor while his Government is once again the most efficient machinery for the production of poverty."<br /><br />He "suffers for the poor", but they end up suffering because of him. Whether they know it or not. Of course, that's just the way he likes it, because then they "need" him all the more.AIOnoreply@blogger.com