I wonder if anyone who interviewed him asked him about collectivization. 

Here is a good history of collectivization and you can see how non successful it has been and the types of places it has been tried.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-125592/collectivization

or in reference to what is going in Venezuela, here is a quote to the below link.

"deed ownership are being badly affected by collectivization, which is destroying the weak property rights these urban poor once had."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/02/even_the_poor_are_losing_in_ve.html

"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane"  Waylon Jennings

What is wrong with these people? This man vowed to bring down the American government! I have had this article on my site since October: http://www.debrajmsmith.com/citgo.html

How is that I know this, but Babara Walters doesn't? Could she really be this stupid? Or is she really no better than Cindy Sheehan, who you will see on that page all snuggly with Chavez.

Have they all gone mad? I just don't get it. I'm going back to bed.

Venezuela's economy and Liberal Math...   ACA

"Venezuela President Hugo Chavez's plan to curb inflation by lopping three zeros from the currency may backfire because the move fails to address production bottlenecks that are pushing prices higher, economists said.

The government will cut three zeros from the bolivar's exchange rate by February 2008, Chavez said last night in a televised speech, citing rising consumer prices. He also will cut the value-added tax rate and clamp down on ``speculators'' to halt last month's 4 percent increase in the cost of food."

and this...

``He has a funny understanding of the problem,'' Alberto Bernal, a Latin America economist with Bear Stearns & Co., said in an interview. ``Cutting a number of zeros from the bolivar is irrelevant in the end.''

Without getting into a million article references Venezuela has about 50% (slightly less) of its total workforce in the 'informal' economy.  For those who need that defined, these are street vendors; hustlers; small shops selling outside the mainstream and smugglers.

In the United States, the 'informal' economy is primarily swap meets and drugs.

The inflation rates and the lack of private investment capital and capital flight happening in Venezuela have all been seen before, in Mexico in the late 1970's and early 1980's.  This led to the US bailing out Mexico with about $100 billion of cash infusions.

Will we bail out Chavez?  Is that what this junk interview is all about?

Whenever I see this stuff broadcast after the idiot stands up and calls my President the 'devil' and smells sulphur at the podium, I think, hoo boy, here we go again.

The poor people of Venezuela think they have found a savior in Chavez when they have found slavery.

ACA

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Quoted from:  'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)