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How Did Chavez's Socialism Treat Venezuela?

Hint: Not Well

David Frum

Updated Apr. 21, 2017 11:24AM ET / Published Mar. 06, 2013 3:30PM ET 

Friend of the blog Tom Doran writes in:

For an in-depth understanding of what Hugo Chavez did to his country, you should read the Daily Beast's own Michael Moynihan.

If you want the capsule version, just take a look at these two graphs, courtesy of blogger Lars Christensen:

Newsflash for the sentimental leftists polluting my Twitter timeline with Chavez apologia: state socialism doesn't work. Even if Chavez had been a model democrat - which he emphatically was not - he would still have been a failure.

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