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To: crustyoldprospector who wrote (34400)	2/21/2005 11:01:56 AM
From: jrhana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39344

<Sadly for the Venezolanos, Chavez and his gang are no better than the crooks he replaced. The only difference in the bigger picture is that the crooks Chavez replaced didn't meddle in the affairs of Columbia and Bolivia as does Chavez.> That's the first time I have read anything my Venezuelan friends would agree with. Most or nearly all Of Latin America seems such a tragedy to me. They have the resources and the intellectual capacity to build wealth. Instead in one form or another they just follow the road of anarchy and corruption. The only choice seems to be between prolonging feudalism (where a few billionaires party with the jet set while the country rots) and left wing totalitarianism. If Latin America could ever accomplish truly stable, capitalistic represetative deomocracies, there would be no holding them back. Venezuela should be an incredibly rich country, instead they have poverty on the level of Haiti. This of course is what led to Chavez.