Venezuela furious at Obama's comments on ailing Chavez

[Ken Burch]

166. You'd have to concede, though, that it would be a loss for Venezuela to end up

with a government that was socially progressive as you defined it, but pro-austerity and privatization on economic and social justice issues...that is, was progressive only on issues that mattered to rich people first.

In a place like Venezuela, you have to put the needs of the poor and the working class first...then, after that, you can work on issues like LGBT rights and reproductive choice.

Maduro can be lobbied to change(even Cuba is pro-LGBT now, and they were much worse on that issue than Venezuela ever was). Capriles, on the other hand, could never be lobbied to care about the poor and the workers...free-market types are always against the poor and the workers(as you should have seen from watching how those people act here).

If he lived in the U.S, we could assume that Capriles would have campaigned for Romney.