Ovine orgy over omnipotence...

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Adios Comandante? The excellent Caracas Chronicles gives us a preview of and insight into the uncontrolled national mourning (by Chavistas only) if the assumed bad prognosis of Chavez's bad health is accurate: "The level of sycophancy chavista figureheads are displaying lately is worthy of psychiatric evaluations."... "Folks, it’s really just a hop and a skip until the name of the country is changed once again. These people know no limits...".  With the country almost broke, despite its immense riches, we may well ask what comes after; especially with loyal sock-puppet Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro in Cuba (and last week having been given more extensive powers, especially over economic matters) it leads people to believe only the worst: Maduro said that 'Minister of Electric Power Hector Navarro will be the second in command in his absence', giving some clues as to a possible new 'power' structure. And talking about power, on 'energy relations' "everyone from Washington to Beijing is scrutinizing what is happening in Venezuela with the President’s health". Carlos Alberto Montaner in the Miami Herald asks,

"Will Maduro continue that model of harebrained and corrupt management, incendiary language, class struggle, shrill anti-Americanism, rising statism, destruction of the productive entrepreneurial fabric, abundant and unaffordable social spending, dependency and irresponsibility?" [Link]