Another Communist state is dying before our very eyes... I'm speaking of Venezuela, of course. Progressives – the heretofore loud promoters of Hugo's variety of Communism, rebranded as “socialism” to make to more palatable to Americans – are studiously ignoring the ugly collapse. People suffering? Move along now, nothing to see here.
I used to buy slide rules (which, as my long-time readers know, I collect) from a fellow in Caracas. We had a few email conversations about the politics after Hugo took power. Then one day he stopped responding to my emails. A little later, I got a reply saying that his email address had been deleted. I sent snail mail; it was returned. His ads are no longer on eBay. I fear the worst for him, and I am afraid that his political openness on email may have contributed to his undoing...
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