Humanity collectively appeared to embrace the rejection of the insidious idea that one could justify abhorrent conduct by appealing to superior orders. And yet, in 2024, “they’re only doing their jobs” remains as accepted an excuse as ever.
Ruin entered Venezuela through the door of democracy, and this tragic story is by no means the only example of democracy being used to herald collapse in the world.
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is heartened by recent press reports of the Venezuelan government relaxing its controls over the economy.
Lessons from Venezuela: Implosion started with land grabs
It is most astonishing that even as the Venezuelan crisis unfolds on TV screens across the world, the orientation of governance in the United States is in danger of degenerating into the same socialist experimentation that has brought such suffering
The economic collapse in Venezuela, undergone during the last two decades, is due to the presence of the ideological-political project commonly referred to as ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’.
One of Hugo Chavez’s lesser-known feats since taking over as Venezuela’s leader in 1999 is to have presided over a tripling of the annual homicide rate, says the Economist and that’s according to official statistics:
Last year more than 13,000 people were killed in Venezuela, a country of
After Hugo Chavez put himself in charge of the country’s coffee sector last year, for the first extended period of time in the country’s history, Venezuela did not produce enough of the little red berry to satisfy domestic demand. It has now become a coffee importer and is facing serious
When Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, he said nothing about nationalisation. At the time, Venezuela was moving in the opposite direction, riding a wave of privatisation that had brought improvements in telephone services, steel production, and oil profits. Once he came to power, however, Chavez changed his mind.
A new consumer protection law, which went into effect on February 1, allows Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez to expropriate virtually any company if he deems it to be in the national interest.
On January 17, Chávez expropriated six Exito supermarket stores, controlled by France’s Groupe Casino. Chávez wants to transform the chain’s
