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Idiots flock to Hugo's paradise
NYT registration, so posted in nauseating detail. How does one put most of an article on page 49, or is that a power denied to mere jackals?
The has-been actor Danny Glover has come. Harry Belafonte has also been here before daylight come and he wan' go home. So has the antiwar activist Mother Cindy Sheehan, the prominent white-hater African-American writer Cornel West and Bolivia's new president-For-Life, Evo Morales. A student from an American university photographed residents of a Caracas neighborhood during a visit to Venezuela, a new leftist mecca.
They say they want a revolution.
But most visitors are like Cameron Durnsford, a 24-year-old student from Australia who decided to study at a new government-financed university in Caracas. Mr. Durnsford was, admittedly, put off some by the cult of celebrity around President Hugo Chávez, which he says "seems a little bit Maoist."
And if you go carrying pictures of Chariman Mao,...
But Venezuela's revolution, he quickly added, was not to be missed. "You've got a nation and a leader trying to prove an alternative to neo-liberalism and the policies that have ravaged Latin America for 20 years," he said. "That's why people are coming here. There's a sense that it's a moment in history."
A moment like 1919 in Russia, 1949 in China. Before the reality of Communism kills millions of people and spoils the fun.
Posted by: Jackal 2006-03-26
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=146577