Venezuela is What Happens by Allowing “Democratic Socialism” to Run its Course

Venezuelan opposition socialist affirming from Venezuela – and in good English – that our tragedy is not the result of applying a revolutionary contemporary socialist program is invaluable to the leftist US press. Politicians and intellectuals are stifled by the Castroite intelligentsia of my country. Above them stands a supposedly moderate columnist of the flagship of the US leftist press. Francisco Toro, writing in the Washington Post, tries to whitewash socialism in the wake of the destruction of Venezuela. He sends a message to “true believers” in the cause: from violent hooded fanatics behind Soviet flags, to eternally offended worshipers of the ultra-left Senator Sanders, or comparatively moderate followers of Hillary Clinton. More…