http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

• Chavez, 58, led a wave of leftist leaders in Latin America
  
• His idol was Simon Bolivar
  
• Reforms took socialist path
  
• Critics said many of his programs were unsustainable
  

 

sounds like some country needs some freedom

 

Here's hoping his workers paradise collapses into prosperity without him.

 

Good.

 

is it too soon to swoop in there and take their oil? Or do we have to wait through a period of mourning first?

 

RIP. Whoever he was and where he came from, it's a loss against cancer, the loss of a life, and ended without a peace process.

 

You know what? F that guy and the horse he rode in on for causing so much human misery and destruction of private wealth to further his ideological preference and personal power. Jesus loves him but I got a hard time joining him in it.

 

democracy mourns for no one

 

But venezuala is a massive shithole, gang crime and poverty is rife. Dunno which workers are in the paradise.

 

Yeah, that's where we play the rimshot.



Socialism/Communism: the good intentions with which the road to hell is paved. The harder you try to meet the ideals, the farther you get from the dreamt-of worker's paradise. Always.