In Venezuela, the 1% won yesterday-there's nothing else you can say.

[Ken Burch]

5. The people can't actually be happy that a Thatcherite agenda is now going to be imposed..

The Obama Administration's restrictions on currency exchanges did massive damage.

You can't seriously think anything humane, egalitarian or positive is going to come from this. No right-wing victory every leads to a left-of-center greater good. I accept the result, but anyone who cares about the workers and the poor will also mourn it, since nobody in the opposition cares about those on the bottom...you can't care about people like that and support privatization and austerity.

In two years, nothing Chavez and the Bolivarians did will remain. Social equality will be abolished. All gains made by Afro-Venezuelans and the indigenous will be revoked. But some will say this is ok because the rich will have themselves photographed doing "charity" for the poor.

That's the only possible outcome for the next decade ago.

Why are you happy about this?