Hugo Chavez Dead

El Caliente said

I wish you could have lived down there Geldo. You would have loved it. The government taking over everything from the oil rigs to the brewerys. Oh it was glorious!

And when the government had empresas shut down because the their owners didn't play along with Chavez plan of reducing prices (and these were Venezuelan companies that he was shutting down).

Or maybe how you couldn't get many American goods down there (Tootsie Rolls for example because I wrote and asked them) when you can freely get them in Brazil or Columbia, because the economy is everywhere but stable.

Fun. Fun. Fun.

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It's okay mate - I lived in the capitalist playground of the Caribbean for the best part of a decade and used to drive past bare-foot women queueing for the water standpipe to be turned on for an hour a day while the guy in the hacienda next door used to water his plants with an always on sprayer.

No one is saying that Venezuela is a paradise. I have been there and I know it's not. I simply wish to create some balance in assessing the life of Hugo Chavez. He was fairly elected. He cared about the poor and disenfranchised and he did a lot to promote a measure of social improvement for those who normally get ignored in Latin America.

Insulting his mother and celebrating his death is beneath you.