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Why Hugo Chavez Was Bad for Venezuela

Venezuela after Chavez

It's no good doing redistribution if you don't have anything to distribute in the first place.

I've been a bit befuddled by some of what my colleage Michael Moynihan terms "love letters" to the departed Hugo Chavez (such a sonorous voice rolling out of the television for hours on end! Pity he was insufficiently authoritarian, though).

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