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| MP Conor Murphy from Sinn Fein at Venezuelan embassy |
Look, I understand why many people were
enthusiastic about the charismatic Hugo Chavez. As Gerry Adams said on Chavez's
death last year, he "dedicated himself to building a new and radical
society" and "his progressive social and economic changes took millions
out of poverty." Unfortunately the fellow was not just despotic: he was an
economic illiterate who squandered Venezuela's oil revenues on short-term
measures to alleviate poverty while doing nothing to tackle unemployment,
corruption or waste. Under Moduro, everything is worse, oil prices are plunging
and the country is in deep hock to China. Sinn Fein won't face the truth about
the Venezuelan economy, but you'd think they'd condemn brutal repression of a
legitimate protest movement. But there has been no correction of Crowe's pious
recommendation that the Venezuelan opposition needed "to respect the
democratic outcome" of the presidential election, "rethink their
strategy and the dangerous societal divisions they are sowing" and "listen
to the sincere calls of President Maduro for dialogue" More…
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