What Can We Learn From Chavez and Venezuela's crisis

You can’t democratically give power to those who tried to take it by force: Chavez and his entourage attempted a coup d’etat in the 90’s under the excuse of reforming the country, becoming Robin Hood, taking out corrupt politicians, etc. It was an actual coup, not the mini strikes the opposition has used now and then as a form of protest. Chavez’s was a real, militarized and violent coup where people died, there were tanks, there were fighter airplanes, there was gunfire. More…