Venezuela's Maduro Is The Caracas Kim – The North Korean One (Er, Un)

A year ago I designated oil-rich Venezuela the Caribbean North Korea. My rationale: the very economic catastrophe Venezuela’s ruling socialists have created has turned out to be one of their best political survival assets. It works like a charm, actually. When people are too busy standing in epic queues for scarce milk, antibiotics and toilet paper, they don’t have a lot of time to work for regime change. Especially when generals are the regime’s bodyguards. So I reasoned Venezuela’s loony left would probably be in power for a long time to come. More…