Or, per Stalin, “How many divisions does the National Assembly have?”

Of course, Chavez and Maduro belong to the classic left South American populism, which is poisonous. Sadly, I should say that this is exactly the path that US’s left is taking. But Lula was left too, and he has been the best president of Brasil. Next to Brasil, you have Paraguay, and there you have José Mujica, leftist too, who was president of Paraguay between 2010 and 2015, highly popular and famous for being a very natural person. Of course, he has basque origins, and that makes a difference. Here you have a recent interview with english subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GX6a2WEA1Q

In general, leftists that started as blue collars in hard industries use to be honest politicians. That was the case with Lula (former metal worker) or Mujica (farmer). The problem is that most of left is what we call in spanish “revolucionarios de salé³n”. In english, revolutionaries of living room, meaning people who never worked hard.

They aren’t going back.

Perhaps.

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“Maduro has responded to any and all political opponents with an increasingly hardline approach: jailing opposition leaders, killing dozens of protesters, and systematically dismantling the free press.”