The Chávez Legacy, Pulverized in 13 Simple Charts
On the brand new FiveThirtyEight.com, Friend of the Blog Dorothy Kronick does the kind of demolition job on Bolivarian Socialism’s record usually associated with a wrecking crew. Eye-opening stuff,...
On the brand new FiveThirtyEight.com, Friend of the Blog Dorothy Kronick does the kind of demolition job on Bolivarian Socialism’s record usually associated with a wrecking crew. Eye-opening stuff, even for those of us who know this material well.
I enjoyed, in particular, the way she developed Omar Z’s Bolivia parallel. It’s just brutal. If it was a boxing match a ref would step in to stop the carnage.
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