Lufthansa Says Venezuela Owes It More Than $100 Million

Your Socialist Utopia goes awry when your good pals the Saudis fuck you by flooding the market with cheap, light Arabian Goodness. But don’t let that stop you from praising the guy who took the country towards dictatorship via intimidation and silencing of political opposition. Writes Communist blogger Glen Ford:

In assessing Chavez’s “legacy,” the global bourgeois media cite the “divisions” that plague Venezuelan society and, in the words of Business Week, an economy in “shambles.” But, Chavez and his comrades would have been abject failures – and been tossed from office – had they not drawn lines between the oppressed majority and the privileged exploiters. Division is good and necessary. Consequently, the economy has succeeded in reducing the proportion of households in poverty from 44 percent in 1998 to 27 percent in 2011. Chavez has served the people.

Source: http://www.issuesandalibis.org/030813.html

“What we want is to keep the place connected. Venezuela’s economic difficulties will only get worse if they are isolated even more and unable to participate in trade because airlines aren’t flying there any more,” IATA Director General Tony Tyler said on Monday.

Source: Lufthansa Says Venezuela Owes It More Than $100 Million