Boomerang Chavez
Author | : Emili Blasco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 1533585636 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781533585639 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The institutional, economic, and social breakdown of Venezuela is not the result of the dismantling of Hugo Chávez's legacy, but rather a result of his policies. It is like a boomerang which, as it returns to the person that throws it, shatters the glass in which the father of the Bolivarian revolution saw himself: from benefactor to the poor to culprit for the great shortages, inflation, and violence which buffets the country, especially its lower class-scarcity of basic goods, long lines at stores, widespread crime... Chavismo was very much of a fraud from the outset: transfer of sovereignty to Cuba, electoral deceit, unprecedented economic corruption, narco-state...