re: #121 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

He was mostly just totally corrupt- he was happy to be a left-winger or a right-winger as the situation demanded.

Anyway, you don’t think Rafael Caldera was better than Chavez? Really? He inherited the economic crisis, he didn’t start it, he wasn’t a right-winger, and he was a lot better on press freedom.

But he did nothing. OK, maybe he was a good guy in that intellectual scholar kind of way but people were starving in Venezuela in the 90s - food riots - in an oil rich state.

This is what the Pro-American Venezuelan regime was doing to it’s own starving people in 1990:

unhcr.org

Venezuela: Information on protests in Caracas on 5 February 1990; on the number of participants, on the groups involved, and on the rape by the police of those women detained for participating in the protest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracazo

The Caracazo or sacudn is the name given to the wave of protests, riots and looting and ensuing massacre[1] that occurred on 27 February 1989 in the Venezuelan capital Caracas and surrounding towns. The riots — the worst in Venezuelan history — resulted in a death toll of 3,000 deaths,[2] mostly at the hands of security forces. The main reason for the protests were the neoliberal, pro-market reforms imposed by the government of Carlos Andrs Prez, who had recently been elected in a campaign where he promised the opposite of such reforms.[1]

In 1989, Carlos Andrs Prez (1922–2010), the candidate of the centrist Democratic Action Party, was elected President after promising to oppose the United States government’s Washington Consensus and financial policies recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Nevertheless, he did neither once he got into office, following instead the neoliberal economic policies supported by the United States and the IMF. He dramatically cut spending, put prominent men in governmental posts. Prez’s policies angered some of the public.[64][65][66] In an attempt to stop the widespread protests and looting that followed his social spending cuts, Prez ordered the violent repression and massacre of protesters known as El Caracazo, which “according to official figures … left a balance of 276 dead, numerous injured, several disappeared and heavy material losses. However, this list was invalidated by the subsequent appearance of mass graves”, indicating that the official death count was inadequate.[67][68][69] Prez had used both the DISIP political police and the army to orchestrate El Caracazo. Chvez did not participate in the repression because he was then hospitalized with chicken pox, and later condemned the event as “genocide”.[70][71]