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The Washington Post just ran a long article

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title From Riches to Rags, and it's

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about Venezuela. Venezuela

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used to be one of South America's wealthiest nations,

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but now is one of the poorest. The

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Post describes how this oil rich country

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is Latin America's new underclass because

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it's buckling under the weight of Venezuela's

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descent into socialism. There's no food,

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there's no electricity, there's no money. Every

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day, five thousand people flee the country trying

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to escape starvation. In the last

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two years, two million have fled, another two

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million will leave this year. Women women

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risk being raped and attacked by smugglers,

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members of the upper class, skilled professionals.

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They are abandoning their property, taking jobs

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as day laborers in other countries.

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But life is worse for those who stay

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in Venezuela. It's also

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totally predictable, and I did predict it

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when Hugo Chavez came to power back in But

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our brilliant liberal elite, including

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Hollywood stars, praised

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Chabez and has chosen six us

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her socialist dictator, Nicholas Maduro.

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American liberals always celebrate

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socialism, just as they're doing today

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in the Democrat Party because they see it

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as total power. Even

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though it fails every time it's tried,

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they still think it hasn't been tried

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by the right people with the right amount

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of money,

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