Saturday, June 25, 2011

Our friend and ally Hugo

After insulting the USA and every prosperous country in the world, Hugo Chavez must seek medical treatment in that other socialist paradise, Cuba. I pray for him, his family, and his country. Nonetheless, the irony of a caudillo suffering in Cuba might make a fiction writer out of me yet. Jose de Cordoba comments:

'Mr. Chávez, who considers himself to be Fidel Castro's spiritual heir, provides Cuba with up to 100,000 barrels a day of cut-rate oil, making the island's economic survival largely dependent on Mr. Chávez's largess.

'"The two Castro brothers, who were Catholics once, must be burning a lot of candles, praying for Chávez's survival," says Riordan Roett, head of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.'

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