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When Venezuela was the Blueberry Cheesecake of socialism

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Then:

"When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics. When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela’s did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter – and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore. It suddenly looks like a threat to the corporate capitalism, especially when said country has valuable oil resources that global powerhouses like the United States rely on." ----David Sirota

(2013) Hugo Chavez's Economic Miracle
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_cha...c_miracle/

(2013) Hugo Chávez: Man against the world
http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affair...inst-world

Jeremy Corbyn (twitter, 2:19 PM - 5 Mar 2013): "Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world."
https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/...92?lang=en

Bernie Sanders site (Friday, August 5, 2011): "These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"

Flashback To Publications That Praised Chavez
http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/22/flashb...socialism/


Today, or 2016 to 2017:

"Chavez and his successor Maduro have succeeded in driving Venezuela, a potentially wealthy country with huge oil reserves, into a state of collapse and destitution. It's been one of the most dramatic failures of modern times." --Mick Hartley

Starving Venezuelans root through bins to survive
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Star...to-survive

Venezuelans suffer deadly scarcity of food and medicine
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/venezuela...-medicine/

Venezuela: The left's giant forgetting
http://paulocanning.blogspot.com/2016/09...tting.html

Crisis Upon Crisis in Venezuela
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/op...zuela.html

Armed Civilian Bands in Venezuela Prop Up Unpopular President
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/wo...ident.html

Socialist Death Squads Rule Venezuela
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/20...ezuela.php

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