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To: loantech who wrote (8624)	3/30/2006 11:33:19 AM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78416

I am certainly no Chavez worshipper, but I do my best to be suspicious of prevailing wisdom, particularly that propounded by the powerful. I'm sure Chavez has personal weaknesses -- hey, Picasso was a jerk as well as a genius, and John A. Macdonald was a drunk as well as the best PM Canada ever had -- but my point is that it is arguable but not in the end determinable whether or nor the poor are better off than they would be if the former kleptocrats were still in power. Hence, you can let your ideological biases make the decision, which is why I am leaning in the pro-Chavez direction. FWIW, I wouldn't invest in Venezuela, but I have interests in Peru. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." LC