From my viewpoint (I'm Norwegian), Venezuela doesn't look leftist at all. Chavez and Maduro look like just regular dimwit autocrats, they don't look like Einar Gerhardsen, Tage Erlander, Olof Palme or Poul Nyrup Rasmussen at all. Chavez/Maduro look more like those horribles the US tends to prop up around Latin America, except that their veneer of rhetoric uses unusual vocabulary.
Maduro is the kind of leftist who'll rather repay PVDSA debts than feed the poor.
But from bufferoverflow's viewpoint it's different. Maduro uses leftist vocabulary and fucks up, therefore.
South America had had a lot of regimes that handed out state funds to this group and that. The Bolivarian Revolution has that. But to which group? From what I've read Mission Habitat housing has gone mostly to Chavez/Maduro voters, for example. Friends of the local party functionaries.
I suppose you might say that's still better than letting the rich and corrupt help themselves to public resources.
From my viewpoint (I'm Norwegian), Venezuela doesn't look leftist at all. Chavez and Maduro look like just regular dimwit autocrats, they don't look like Einar Gerhardsen, Tage Erlander, Olof Palme or Poul Nyrup Rasmussen at all. Chavez/Maduro look more like those horribles the US tends to prop up around Latin America, except that their veneer of rhetoric uses unusual vocabulary.
Maduro is the kind of leftist who'll rather repay PVDSA debts than feed the poor.
But from bufferoverflow's viewpoint it's different. Maduro uses leftist vocabulary and fucks up, therefore.