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Venezuela announces nationwide energy rationing

World Jan. 13, 2010 - 03:56AM JST ( 7 )

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MolenirJan. 13, 2010 - 07:39AM JST

And once again, the failures of socialism are demonstrated.
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wizJan. 13, 2010 - 01:41PM JST

Yea.....hows that revolution thing working out for you Hugo.
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JunnamaJan. 13, 2010 - 01:56PM JST

This Chavez...he is doing a bad job, no? Why do they keep reelecting him?
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m5c32Jan. 13, 2010 - 02:14PM JST

Why do they keep reelecting him?

It's not too difficult when most of the media are organs of the state and he is a great propagandist. He plays the class-warfare card really very skilfully (i.e. the ills are the a product of the middle and upper classes AND the Gringos). Still, people are beginning to wake up.

Oh, and there is the ever helpful tool known as ballot fraud --of which there have been allegations by Venezuelan academics --oh, wait, academics are in league with the Gringos, so says el jefe.
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Helter_SkelterJan. 13, 2010 - 03:53PM JST

This will be the U.S. after four years of Obama.
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MadvertsJan. 13, 2010 - 05:55PM JST

"And once again, the failures of socialism are demonstrated."

Heh, the failures of dictatorships you mean.
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MolenirJan. 14, 2010 - 10:38AM JST

No. I joke about him being Dictator-for-life Chavez, but its not quite to that point yet. They are still allowing somewhat free elections, even if they have shut down all the opposition news. Apart from that though, its the failures of socialism that are being demonstrated here, not so much dictatorship. His seizing of the power companies, prevented them from reinvesting their profits, and increasing energy supply, so it would be less dependent on rain. This is a direct failure of socialism, as opposed to capitalism.