One of the biggest criticisms that Chávez made of the post 1958 era in Venezuela, was that political parties were closed, with little democracy. Despite this, Chávez’ own political party, Movimiento Quinta República (MVR), simply copied the Stalinist model of other Venezuelan parties. It is only today, five years after it was founded that some democracy will reach MVR, until you look at the details. It turns out that the 321 delegates of the party to be elected on Sunday are only 34.2% of the total number of delegates, the remainder coming from the natural leadership of the party as defined by the leadership itself. Thus, Stalinist policies live in MVR and democracy will come one day, but not now, later….
The Devil's Excrement
Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.
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