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Long time readers of this blog might remember that on occasion I have qualified the Chavez regime as a reactionary regime. In Venezuelan standards a reactionary regime means looking back at our military past of
caudillos who imposed their will at, well, will. This vision of a past that was never quite what the reactionaries of today think it was, but it includes a mythical Arcadia of coffee, cocoa and banana plantations that kept everyone happy. Needless to say that even if that vision had a kernel of reality, it was applied to a country which did not reach the 2 million people and such a vision could not satisfy today's country of 30 million people, while being possibly the most urbanized of Latin America.
Well, I was wrong in stressing that the military
caudillo was the motor of the reaction: it has now an agrarian component, when our beloved bloated leader wants us to become a banana plantation for Russia, a reactionary tzarist empire in the making if you ask me.