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Hollywood adulation of Venezuela’s socialist government proven wrong -- again

m.knox

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It is time to make serious fun of these idiots......

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...-socialist-government-proven-wrong-again.html

The actor clearly admired the socialist leader – taking in sports games with him and greeting him publicly with embraces at airports.

Sean Penn gushed over the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, describing him as a Robin Hood of sorts, a revolutionary wonder. And when Vice President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s hand-picked successor, became head of state, Penn said he would continue to lift Venezuela.

Directors Michael Moore and Oliver Stone as well as actor Danny Glover also made it a virtual mission to hold up Chavez and the socialist changes of the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. U.S. writers and lawmakers joined the Chavista parade of admirers. Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson joined Penn in attending Chavez’s funeral in 2013.

Chavez’s socialist rule, originally viewed in 1999 by his admirers as a tough-love approach to addressing the nation’s economic problems, began degenerating while he was still alive, with corruption, misguided and detrimental financial policies and an authoritarian intolerance for dissent that was met with arrests and prison.
 
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