Hugo Chavez Makes a Political Statement About Socialism
And will likely pay with his life.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is dying of cancer in Havana, in a live demonstration of Cuba’s vaunted socialized medical care. He went there instead of Brazil because he wanted to make a political statement. What irony.
As party cronies hover at his bedside, Cuban officials bark orders to the government in Caracas, and red-shirted Chavistas hold vigils, all signs are pointing to an imminent exit for the Venezuelan leader who controls a huge part of the world’s oil.
He’s going out exactly as he wouldn’t have liked — helpless and at the mercy of doctors, a far cry from the blaze of heroic socialist glory he might have preferred.
Most galling for him: It didn’t have to happen this way.
His expected demise will be entirely due to his gullibility to leftist propaganda and bad choices that came of it.
Remember, this is the Michael-Moore-acclaimed Cuban health care system covered in his movie "Sicko".
Filed under: Government • Liberal • Medicine • Politics
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