Chavez The Miracle Worker
Though I have not the slightest itch to murder anyone, I do read some obituaries with pleasure. Hugo Chavez was a typical tyrant, and I would surely want to emigrate if I ever found myself in such a country. Yet, many on the left disagree and point out the trains ran on time. Salon has an article entitled "Hugo Chavez's economic miracle," and highlights that the official poverty rate fell during his tenure. I'm skeptical of poverty statistics calculated in countries run by dictators, especially those countries where the murder rate is 4 times that of Mexico. I guess we probably do not agree on the facts, but I also suspect we have different preferences.
Luckily for them, Chavez is going to be embalmed like his hero Lenin, and I'm glad there's a shrine to people I disagree with so far away from me. I wish one of his Western cheerleaders wouldn't merely praise these guys, but actually move there. That is, if Cuba, Venezuela, China, or Albania is a socialist paradise, then why don't any of these guys actually want to live there.
Luckily for them, Chavez is going to be embalmed like his hero Lenin, and I'm glad there's a shrine to people I disagree with so far away from me. I wish one of his Western cheerleaders wouldn't merely praise these guys, but actually move there. That is, if Cuba, Venezuela, China, or Albania is a socialist paradise, then why don't any of these guys actually want to live there.
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