Maduro Steals Venezuelan Election

[Sheilbh]

I think you've misunderstood Latin America if you think being a Catholic and a Marxist are contradictory

[Ed Anger]

Maduro looks like a spokesman for Just for Men.

[Queequeg]

The fucker played the augur in a Catholic church. That alone is grounds for ridicule.

[derspiess]

I think you've misunderstood Latin America if you think being a Catholic and a Marxist are contradictory

True, but the Catholic thing seems to be show in this particular case (and in Chavez's).

[Sheilbh]

True, but the Catholic thing seems to be show in this particular case (and in Chavez's).

Maybe, I mean we can't see into their souls. But in fairness Catholicism's more showy

To me it looks more like those Catholic football players crossing themselves before a game. It could be sincere, superstitious, cultural, just a ploy to get the old lady vote or a bit of all of the above

[derspiess]

The US still hasn't recognized the results of the election, for whatever that's worth.  Kind of an easy one to get right, but kudos to Obama & Lurch nonetheless.

http://news.yahoo.com/capriles-distances-himself-violent-protests-venezuela-050342845.html

[Queequeg]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/17/arrest-warrants-issued-for-leaders-of-venezuelan-opposition-party.html

Fucking pricks. 

[Admiral Yi]

 

[The Minsky Moment]

Chavist Venezuela is a variant on Marx's dictum that history repeats itself, first as farce, and then as an even more absurd farce.