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| Chávez Threatens to Jail Price Control Violators |
| 2007-02-17 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #12 ¿Quién es Juan Galt? |
| Posted by: RWV 2007-02-17 21:10 |
| #11 I was making a general statement, of course there will be the *ahem* Party People, who will be taken care of by their loyalty AND usefulness to the cause. Lose one of those labels and you are dead meat. Just Like Zimbobwe and so many other dictatorships. Hugo is just getting greedy. He wants the power and he wants it all, and he wants immediate gratification right bloody now! Which will be his undoing. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-02-17 17:22 |
| #10 Also look up 'apparatchik'. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-02-17 16:25 |
| #9 Just so long as he doesn't allow Iran to put missiles in. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-02-17 15:49 |
| #8 AP not everyone will be poor, look up nomenklatura. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-17 15:38 |
| #7 Why does everyone forget Saint Mao in desciibing Horrible Hugo? Sounds like he's poised to make a great leap forward any day now. The "people" will start outing the bourgesoise, the reeducation camps are already being started and famine is in the wind. Stalin and Lenin, yes but let's not forget old Mao too. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-02-17 15:36 |
| #6 Pretty soon, Venezuela will have nothing but poor and working classes, the workers' paradise. Venezuela, meet cliff. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-02-17 13:57 |
| #5 You have to admit Chavez is doing a great job following in the footsteps of Lenin, Stalin, etc. By the nature of communism, we should soon expect general shortages of food, fuel and clothing, as well as the creation of concentration camps. I doubt President Reagan would have tolerated such new developments so close to the US. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2007-02-17 13:50 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-02-17 13:30 |
| #3 Next - Soylent Green is people! Fade to FIN |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-02-17 12:23 |
| #2 also found this disturbing, lol: Customers, even those in the governmentÂ’s own Mercal chain of subsidized grocery stores, are left with choices like pork neck bones, rabbit and unusual cuts of lamb. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-17 10:54 |
| #1 Mr. Chávez, whose leftist populism remains highly popular among Venezuela’s poor and working classes, seemed unfazed by criticism of his policies. Appearing live on national television, he called for the creation of “committees of social control,” essentially groups of his political supporters whose purpose would be to report on farmers, ranchers, supermarket owners and street vendors who circumvent the state’s effort to control food prices. “It is surreal that we’ve arrived at a point where we are in danger of squandering a major oil boom,” said José Guerra, a former chief of economic research at Venezuela’s central bank, who left Mr. Chavez’s government in 2004. “If the government insists on sticking to policies that are clearly failing, we may be headed down the road of Zimbabwe.” Mr. Guerra's paying attention. Sounds like Hugo's building a secret police informer force, eh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-17 10:43 |