Venezuela: What communism is really about

Democratic socialism for the 21st Century, illustrated by the Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE – ‘Why shouldn’t we enjoy ourselves just because the country is burning?’ Super-rich Socialists quaff champagne in Venezuela country club while middle class mothers scavenge for scraps in the gutter… and even the DOGS are starvingVenezuela’s economy was destroyed by ‘Chavismo’, a form of Socialism, plunging the country into extreme poverty

• Most people are starving, forced to scavenge for scraps of rotting food in the rubbish dumps of its capital Caracas
• But MailOnline found pockets of incredible wealth in the impoverished city where life is still luxurious for the elite
• Meanwhile a 12-year-old scavenges for food and a five-month-old baby with life-threatening asthma goes untreated

And don’t forget that the richest woman in Venezuela is Hugo Chávez’s own daughter, María Gabriela.

Other Venezuela headlines,
No food, no teachers, violence in failing Venezuela schools

Lootings soar in Venezuela amid food scarcity

The Diplomatic War to Topple Venezuela’s Strongman

RBC analyst places Venezuela on OPEC watch list

At the blogs,
Enough already with “Sembrar el Petróleo”. How a single, bad development essay came to blight Venezuelan development thinking for the next eighty years.