Recent Posts
Recent Posts Tagged With 'venezuela'
The Real Impetus Behind Copenhagen
Do you want to know the real reason behind all the meeting and agreements and doomsaying being done at the Copenhagen climate change confab? Listen to the applause. First, the warm-up act, so to speak, with hints of what was to come. But before...
A Question for Chavez Supporters (or Even Chavez Ignorers)
Hollywood, are you listening? Liberals who think at least Chavez isn’t the monster he’s often portrayed as, are you paying attention? President Hugo Chávez has risked international ire by lauding Carlos the Jackal, the Venez...
Paging Michael Moore
Ah, the benefits of socialism. Residents of the Venezuelan capital face cuts in water service for as much as 48 hours per week, after the government imposed rationing to stem a 25 percent shortfall in the city’s supply, officials said Monday. ...
Moving in the Opposite Direction
As the US government takes steps like government controls of major industries and attempting to hijack 1/5th of the economy via health care reform, another country is moving in quite the opposite direction during this global recession. Cuba’s w...
Venezuela Scraps Term Limits
Which means that Hugo Chavez is free to run his country into the ground provided he can continue to finance his programs of "free" services and goods to the voters with oil money. 54% of the country have decided that they prefer the han...
Venezuela’s Horse Not As High
The plunging oil prices over the past few months have brought to light a failing of socialism that Hugo Chavez is now having to deal with. When he was awash in oil revenues, he could afford to give it away and pretend that his utopia was workin...
Post-Vacation Catch-up Links
During my Thanksgiving vacation, I didn’t do any blogging but I did still read the news. I’ll have long posts about some of the items later on, but just wanted to do a quick hit of some bits I found interesting: * Tying up some loos...
When Oil Prices Drop, Socialism Doesn’t Look All That Good
Especially in Venezuela. A few links from the past couple of weeks regarding the socialist "utopia". When oil prices fall, suddenly Hugo Chavez can no longer afford to buy big guns, to finance terrorism, and to spread the wealth around....
