Unfazed by the disasters brought about by Stalin, Mao, Fidel and their enforcers, some insist on giving it another try. But, like their revolutionary comrades in Cuba and North Korea, the Chavistas refuse to recognize that their dream is a nightmare. For them, the revolution, or their version of socialism, is all that really matters. They share with the holy warriors of Islamic State the conviction that an abstraction is worth more than life itself. None of them could have predicted that, a century later, their mantle would fall on the shoulders of an individual as unprepossessing as Maduro.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 04, 2016 03:00 UTC