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CHAVEZ COLLEGE

It isn’t all bad news in King Hugo’s inflation-ridden, under-fooded, dictatorial Venezuela. There are also helpful learning opportunities:

Some private companies are also concerned about President Chavez’s intention to make them allow their employees time during the working day to study socialism.

Oh, they’re studying, all right. You might call it a crash course.

(Via Larry and Astute Blogger)

UPDATE. Agenda teaching is also practised in Australia.

UPDATE II. Looks like Hugo’s fans will have to choose between the Great Satan and Mighty AQ:

Venezuela’s defense minister said Thursday that the nation would reinforce security measures after a branch of al Qaeda called for attacks on suppliers of oil to the United States.

Venezuela provides around 11 percent of U.S. oil imports ...

Posted by Tim B. on 02/16/2007 at 09:32 AM
  1. Why does this sound so much like Robert Mugabes school of economics, take over every business, run out the capitilists and then cry poor?

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 02 16 at 09:39 AM • permalink

  2. And the unemployed poor will soon be given work building re-education camps in the rural areas.  A socialist paradise in the making.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 02 16 at 09:40 AM • permalink

  3. Lessons courtesy of the Robert Mugabe School of Legal Expropriation.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2007 02 16 at 09:40 AM • permalink

  4. study = indoctrination.  But hey, the time off will make the employees less productive, which will lead to a further rise in prices/scarcity of goods and thus lead to a workers paradise.

    Hmm, methinks Chavez is using underpants gnomes logic.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 02 16 at 09:41 AM • permalink

  5. Surfmaster : Great Minds Think Alike. Of course , as shown by Chavez and Mugabe, Fools Seldom Differ.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2007 02 16 at 09:42 AM • permalink

  6. # 5 - Zoe, sorry my mind went in the 70’s, I just know that these pricks, (Mugabe, Chavez, Hitler) are really, really BAD.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 02 16 at 09:45 AM • permalink

  7. The former Federal Labor government here used to force employers to give their employees time off to attend union seminars and training courses. All lefties sing from the same hymnbook…

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 02 16 at 09:51 AM • permalink

  8. Of course plenty of Venezulans with money and/or education are fleeing to Miami… thanks Hugo!

    Think of it as a Bolivarian transfer of money and brainpower to the US from Venezula.

    Posted by Major John on 2007 02 16 at 10:01 AM • permalink

  9. They’ll be eating each other within 3 years.

    Posted by Yobbo on 2007 02 16 at 10:09 AM • permalink

  10. And if they study really hard, they’ll get it right this time.  Right???

    Posted by Blue on 2007 02 16 at 10:16 AM • permalink

  11. Sounds like the practice in the former Soviet Union, where the soldiers where as much attention was given to their political training, as was given to their military training.  I believe that a similar policy was practised in the civilian workforce.

    No doubt Chavez is following the Communist Socialist Leaders Dictator’s Revolutionary Handbook very closely.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 16 at 10:27 AM • permalink

  12. Its not really education, its indoctrination.
    How long will it be before the leftoids are tugging out our heart strings with a Live Aid concert for Venezuela. Maybe Gough and Mal, along with names, on the ‘List’ might like to visit there, before bringing this ‘ideological failure waiting to happen’ to the shores of good old Oz. Whats the bet, the back room boys at ALP headquarters, are all brushing up on their Spanish, the Democrats are squealing in anticipation, and the Greens will have tears in their eyes with emotion, despite what their defacto ‘leader’ Mr Rudd says.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 02 16 at 10:33 AM • permalink

  13. Hugo’s paradise may soon resemble a soul mates paradise.

    The best possible scenario is Hugo’s likeness being emblazoned on a T shirt, after death

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 02 16 at 10:35 AM • permalink

  14. Don’t worry. If he keeps on doing such unpopular things and the economy suffers, the voters will throw him out in the next election.

    /pathetically clueless

    Posted by Merlin on 2007 02 16 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  15. What…Next…Election?

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 02 16 at 11:49 AM • permalink

  16. “What…Next…Election?”

    The next election that he’ll win with 100% of the votes, which Jimmy Carter and leftists across the world will point to as evidence that he’s more duly chosen by his people than Bush ever was, so there!

    Posted by ak on 2007 02 16 at 12:41 PM • permalink

  17. Yes.  I knew I should have written

    What…Next…Real…Election?

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 02 16 at 12:59 PM • permalink

  18. Oh come on.  Jimmy Carter certified this election.  And Jimmy won a Nobel Peace Prize.  Did any of you win a Nobel Peace Prize?  No, I didn’t think so.

    This is all on the up and up.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 16 at 01:03 PM • permalink

  19. In my distant youth, I studied socialism by noting which way refugees were going with respect to the Berlin wall. The whole lesson took about fifteen seconds.

    Posted by Brentbo on 2007 02 16 at 01:36 PM • permalink

  20. The study period is going to be called the 2 Minute Hate On Your Capitalist-Imperialist Employer.

    Posted by PW on 2007 02 16 at 01:50 PM • permalink

  21. I think my Che burger franchise has found room for expansion.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 02 16 at 01:56 PM • permalink

  22. How can you make a Che burger when all you have is chicken feet?

    (I mean on the bun, not you personally.)

    Posted by Merlin on 2007 02 16 at 02:12 PM • permalink

  23. No problem at all.  Always plenty of supply for the right people. 

    It is simply the worker who has problems in any “workers’ paradise”.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 02 16 at 02:42 PM • permalink

  24. Workers who have problems in a worker’s paradise aren’t workers, they’re “undesirable elements”.

    Posted by PW on 2007 02 16 at 02:50 PM • permalink

  25. He would be quite entertaining if he weren’t so awful

    Devil’s Excrement with a few quotes of the day

    From Jorge

    “On a proposal by then Minister of Finance Guicaipuro Lameda to eradicate poverty, Minister of Planning, then and now, Jorge Giordani replied:

    “You have not understood Guicaipuro. The revolution can not survive without the poor”

    As Chavez claims he isn’t a communist, Chavez should be careful, or as Marx claimed, the poor will revolt, overthrow capitalism and replace it with a communist utopia. But then maybe not, for as Jorge points out, Venezuela has already made it to Utopia.

    Deputy Amoroso: “The country is in its best economic and financial moment”

    And from some commenters.

    “ In a most recent concert in Miami, Jose Feliciano refered to Chavez as the “first lady of Cuba”. I’ve heard that Chavez responded that Venezuela will no longer play Jose Feliciano music”

    Another commenter tells of some of the response to Chavez’s threat to nationalise corner stores.

    “Also, the corner-shop owners in Ciudad Bolívar that have a butcher’s section announced (in the same press conference) that they’ve decided not to sell neither meat nor chicken, “what for” they said, “if we sell it at the regulated price, we lose, and if we sell it at the real price, the government would just take it away without refunding us, we lose anyway, so we won’t sell it anymore”.

    Would love to know Natasha’s views on the Chavez dictatorship’s requirement to always have the poor with us.

    Posted by Ros on 2007 02 16 at 05:36 PM • permalink

  26. All is explained. No need to choose between Great Satan and the Mighty AQ. It was the Great Satan.

    Bush to start another war

    “Further, Ortega claimed that the US is likely making attempts at making the world believe that US security is at stake because of a possible disruption in oil supplies following Al Qaeda’s threat against Venezuela. Consequently, Washington could order a pre-emptive military intervention of Venezuela”

    From the National Assembly Committee on Foreign Affairs, Venezuela.

    Via Venezuela Today

    What do you reckon Natasha, time to start organising the peace marches.

    Posted by Ros on 2007 02 16 at 05:48 PM • permalink

  27. I think the point that you have to get people time off from work (with pay, I presume, and attendance taken and alertness noted, etc) shows just how valuable this education is.  If it were really worth anything, people would be doing it on their own time.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 16 at 06:44 PM • permalink

  28. Hugo Chavez…al Qaeda…Hugo Chavez…al Qaeda…

    Talk about having to choose.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 16 at 07:08 PM • permalink

  29. #28 Kyda, it’s very simple.

    One is a buffoon who will destroy his country.

    The other is a very serious organization that wants to dominate the world, viciously.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 16 at 09:17 PM • permalink

  30. That reinforcement of security will be sucking up to Islamists,who are happy to pretend to be socialists.

    Posted by Howzat on 2007 02 16 at 11:28 PM • permalink

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