Close. Handschusheim is towards the left, blocked by the building in this view.
Such is the fate of all state-owned companies. The fact the opposition is cheering this results speaks volumes about what we've been saying all along: there's not one bit of substantive difference between the two visions of the country.
I enjoy seeing the revolution turning against its own supporters. Call it Schadenfreude. Here we have people who have been agitating for socialism for decades, getting the short end of the stick. I say they deserve it more than everybody else. Of course, after the dust settles down, we will have the usual suspects arguing it was not really socialism fault, the revolution was kidnapped!
...which is only a problem if he's a statist who thinks only the government can solve the garbage issue.
Actually I would like to see Chávez declaring war on Honduras. Then, the Venezuelan military, who would rather be drinking beer than risking life in Central America, maybe, just maybe, will put a stop to all this nonsense.
Mr. Giralde makes a good summary of the situation in Honduras and is spot on about what foreign governments should do: leave them alone. My only contention with this article is his statement that the venezuelan reforms implemented by Chávez undeniably empowered the poor majorities. What 21st century socialism has empowered is a new oligarchy of well conected people who exploit and take advantage of Venezuelan natural resources, while at the same time stirring class hatred and promoting expropriation of innocent producers. The poor majorities are only empowered to beg for the crumbs, the leftovers from the chavista looting, to be distributed among those who pledge allegiance to the revolution.
The only scary thing about this is that there is not a single "rich" with balls in Venezuela. Or maybe the "rich" are better informed than we are.
Everytime I talk to my mother inVenezuela she has this to tell about the opposition: "they are completely stupid". I mean, she is not very happy with what is going on, but he oppoition strikes her as completely clueless and out of touch. So she keeps her allegiance to the "bad known" instead of changing it to the "Good unknown". I will suggest that the problem lies in the ideological makeup of the opposition: being statists of some sort or another themselves they find it very hard to answer effectively to Chávez attacks and to offer any legitimate alternative, which doesn't look just like a knee-jerk reaction to Chávez, the man, "whom they just don't like because he is a zambo".
Sadly, the guys who can offer a real ideological opposition to Chávez' project are completely clueless, out-gunned and out-manned in logistical terms and they don't seem to have an interest in changing that fact.
That he did it that way and there are no visible consequences to him tells me Venezuela has already passed the point of no-return.
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