Sunday, September 09, 2007

AS ZIMBABWE GOES, SO GOES VENEZUELA?

The once-prosperous African nation of Zimbabwe appears to be in the last throes of its destruction at the hands of Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe. The BBC reports that the unemployment rate is now 80% and the people are literally starving. (Hat tip: The Monkey Tennis Centre.) This looks like the end of a process that started with the kinds of things Hugo Chavez is doing in Venezuela. How long will it take for Venezuela to catch Zimbabwe?

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