Foreshadowing socialism's final days
David Paulin
It was one of the more macabre stories to emerge out of socialist Venezuela -- and served as a metaphor for the final days of the rotting regime. In a hospital morgue, a bloated corpse exploded. The morgue's barely functioning cooling system was to blame – hardly a surprise in the oil-rich yet impoverished nation whose health-care system has collapsed under the socialist government.
Decomposing for two days in the tropical heat, the corpse finally exploded in a spray of toxic fluids and gasses. The ghastly incident earlier this month necessitated the partial evacuation of the hospital, University Hospital Antonio Patricio de Alcalá, located in Cumaná -- a city of 825,000 in eastern Venezuela. Patients in nearby rooms and corridors were sickened to their stomachs by the stench. “It’s not the first time that a body exploded,” a hospital employee told a Venezuelan media outlet. “It has already occurred two times since the middle of September.”........
There's an irony here. Hugo Chávez, a former coup leader and Army paratrooper, won Venezuela's presidency in 1999 by running as an outsider (he had yet to publicly embrace socialism) and by portraying himself as a moderate who had traded the bullet for the ballot. He had during his campaign rightly lambasted Venezuela's traditional political parties for mismanagement and corruption that had put Venezuela – once an economic success story – into economic decline. Yet under socialism, Venezuela is now in the throes of the worst economic crisis in its history. Its economy is the worst performing in the region and is expected to contract 8 percent this year. Rampaging inflation -- the world's highest -- is expected to hit 720 percent this year as the government feverishly prints more and more worthless currency.............To Read More.....
My Take - Leftists are always turning themselves into angels of light ...... at least until they gain the power they so desperately crave. All Hugo Chavez did what take a page right out of Fidel Castro's play book.....including destroying any concept of human rights and the economy. If Trump is elected through some miracle maybe all the Hollywood crowd who just loved Chavez and are claiming they'll leave the country if Trump is elected will opt for Venezuela. Whadda ya think? Nah....they're just stupid blowhards, and although you can't fix stupid - even they aren't that stupid.
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