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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > NO ONE SUPRISED AS HUGO CHAVEZ REACTS TO ECONOMIC CRISIS WITH DICTATORIAL RULE
NO ONE SUPRISED AS HUGO CHAVEZ REACTS TO ECONOMIC CRISIS WITH DICTATORIAL RULE
March 5 2009
Caracas, Venezuela – With the plummeting price of oil, so goes the economy of Venezuela. With prices at $40 a barrel and the budget calculated on a selling price of $60, the country’s very foundations are starting to unravel prompting President Hugo Chavez to enforce harsher restrictions on food producers and retailers. Chavez, long a foe of the United States, has been seen as a socialist dictator by many other countries and this tightening of control comes as absolutely no surprise to any of them. 
“If any industry wants to ride roughshod over the consumers, with a view to getting better dividends, we are going to act,” said Carlos Osorio, National Superintendent of Silos and Storage. “For the government, access to food is a matter of national security.”
The country has set quotas and locked prices of many staple foods such as rice, sugar, and flour. The restrictions are drawing protests from a limited number of producers, largely those who don’t know enough to keep their mouths shut.
“Chavez possibly believes that he is doing what is right for the country and in some ways he is, but the core economic realities are that if companies are forced into lowering their prices they will have to lay off or fire employees which will only make the
situation worse,” said Scrape TV Business analyst Ken Green. “Of course if you aren’t really interested in bettering the economy but instead interested in strengthening your grip on the populace, this is exactly the kind of thing you need to do and Chavez is doing that brilliantly.”
Last month Chavez won a referendum that will allow him to run for President indefinitely, throwing out basic tenets of the country’s constitution. Many saw that as a firm step towards dictatorial rule in line with other great Socialist leaders like Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong. 
“In a lot of ways Chavez is very similar to great Communist leaders, especially in his political and economic views. Both of those leaders though came to power through bloody revolutions that killed millions. Chavez was a complete failure as a revolutionary but has instead achieved success through traditional political means which actually puts him more in line with Adolf Hitler,” said Scrape TV Government Oppression analyst Gene Wilkers. “Hitler rose to power through campaign and election and then systematically dismantled the political infrastructure to meet his own needs and that is exactly what Chavez is doing, and doing very successfully. He’s learned from history that the best way to control people is to manipulate them until they are completely pliant and that will do him well for the foreseeable future.”
Chavez reportedly disputes his reputation as a dictator and any associations with Adolf Hitler, likening himself to fellow Latin Socialist Fidel Castro.
best 8 years to get done what he wanted to get done. Chavez really only has age and disease as an impediment to his rule and being that he is still a relatively young man he should try to just take it a little slower, don’t push too hard or people will start to notice.”
In recent months Chavez has also sparked controversy with a trip to Beijing and a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev of the increasingly dictatorial-leaning Russia.
“There’s little doubt that Chavez has learned from the best and now he’s surrounding
himself with some of the leaders in the field and that is exactly the right move for long term success,” continued Wilkers. “This economic crisis is the perfect opportunity for him and will do wonders in keeping the people of Venezuela hungry, both literally and philosophically. As long as they look to him to solve crises he will have control over them and over the next few years there will probably be a lot of crises to solve.”
Chavez is expected to stay in power until at least 2021, when he will no doubt alter the constitution again paving the way to join the great dictators of history.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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