January 24, 2005
With a Che Guevara keyring
I'm at work and can't write in much detail, but if you are up for it, this St. Petersburg Times item by David Adams is the best long piece by far on Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez's Cuba-style communist land confiscations. This is tremendous, award-deserving material, with every detail recognizable to anyone who's endured castro's Cuba.
Adams writes:
Chavez signed a decree setting up land reform commissions. He called it the opening shot in a "war against the large estates."
Like many of his political moves, this latest one has everyone guessing. Chavez says he has no intention of copying Cuba's communist system, but he sure seems headed that direction.
"Land for those who work it! Justice in the farmlands," he told an adoring crowd of red-shirted revolutionaries who packed a Caracas convention center when he signed the land reform decree.
All done by a warden with a Che Guevara keyring, that will in time be full of jail keys. The ugly face of Che tells us clearly what this is all about.
Posted by Mora at January 24, 2005 04:23 PM
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Well, theoretically it's possible to rob, rape, murder, assault, and enslave without communism. Maybe that's what Chavez means. You can do all those horrible things without ever quoting Marx.
Posted by: Murel Bailey at January 25, 2005 10:33 AM
Chavez isn't all that bright and doesn't know Marx like an academic. He just sees what Fidel has and wants the same thing. Fidel tells him what to do to get it. It's really gross.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at January 25, 2005 01:05 PM
