Posted by
Dawnsblood on Monday, January 08, 2007 6:52:29 PM
With the election just weeks behind him,
Hugo Chavez is moving quickly to silence his critics and nationalize large parts of his nation's economy. Obviously the horrible wreck socialism/communism made of the former Warsaw Pact countries under that exact system is no credible warning to this idiot. I hope God has pity on the people of
Venezuela, because economic forces will not.
Chavez is another in a long line of bully boys
from South America but in his case, one who seems to think he has found
the key to making socialism actually work on a national level,
something which has escaped every other country that has ever made a
serious attempt at implementing it. Apparently his visits to the
socialist paradise of his hero Fidel Castro never managed to deter him
from a desire to duplicate Cuba in Venezuela.
Addendum: Publius Pundit offers more info.
Think of the implications of Chavez’s move, there, as well as the
nutty governor’s statement now. Chavez intends to control all the media
and information all through the country. CANTV’s stock has now plunged
16% on the NASDAQ until it was yanked from floor trading, due to its
precipitous fall. Nobody thinks Chavez is going to compensate anyone
fairly for his forced expropriation and the market is responding
accordingly.
But more significantly, with the prospect of Chavez owning the
entire phone line system — oh and what a shame this will be because
Venezuela’s phone lines are the clearest in all South America, and
they’ll go to hell under state ownership — Chavez will be able to
listen in on any phone call he wants, especially with all the great
electronic help he’s getting from Cuba’s communist electronic warfare
experts who are now in Caracas. Worse yet, he’ll be able to cut off
electricity to any dissident or group, effectively ending any possible
power to dissemimate news via electronic media. The only way to get any
serious news out of Venezuela now will be to fly into Venezuela. If you
can get a visa.