El Hefe II Extends His Power

Fire of Liberty

Well it looks like Hugo Chavez is following the footsteps of Fidel Castro with his most recent taking of a flour milling plant from Polar (one of the largest private sector employer and biggest food producers of Ven.) as well as threatening to extend such control over the various mining and oil industries that dot the mineral rich. Though Chavez can mouth the mantra "socialism of the 21st Century" to describe such a theft, the simple truth is that Chavez is extending his South American style Stalinist Communism on the people of Venezuela. In fact, I predict these actions will only push Venezuela further into poverty thus consolidating it's status as one of the founding members of the Outposts of Tyranny. One Castro is enough for one lifetime.