Venezuela

My friend is very liberal but he thinks Chavez is really strangling the economy.

Pretty impressive from beyond the grave.

3 Likes

Chavez died four years ago.

Sorry I meant Nic nit Chavez, though he wasn’t a big fan of Chavez either.

Given that the Trump administration seems to exaggerate the most xenophobic aspects of the previous administrations policies I’d probably go with the latter.

Obama’s stance wasn’t exactly encouraging

1 Like

Oh god

Better weather at least.

1 Like

what are we supposed to take away from this? other than that a lot of tories don’t know much about venezuela?

I’m pretty sure Owen Jones answered several of these questions on Friday evening on Radio 4.

Just when I thought I couldn’t find anything more to dislike about the spectator.

In a nutshell:

The people of Venezuela have learned the hard way that socialism doesn’t work, that socialist leaders almost always unequivocally become tyrants, and the free market economy, while not perfect, is a damn sight better than eating horse meat sourced from the local zoo.

=============<() BZZZZZZZZZ

What kind of shitty zoos are you going to that have horses?

2 Likes

Sorry, misread the title.

3 Likes

I’m sure this is somehow Corbyn and Owen Jones’ fault. Might take a little while to work out how though.