Maria Conchita Alonso to Sean Penn: Let’s face it, you’re a communist A-hole

The self-declared winner, Nicolás Maduro, is behaving very much like a man who knows he lost on April 14. In resorting to violence and brute force to silence the opposition’s demand for an honest recount, Maduro has signed the death warrant for chavismo’s legitimacy.

Don’t bet on it. As Alvaro Vargas Llosa & Co. point out in Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot, this is typical of caudillo rule in the region.

Elections there operate on the twin principles of “One man, one vote- once” and “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, it matters that I win”. This is especially true of leftist regimes. Purges of opponents are the default action of such governments, and have been since before United Fruit Co. existed. (It exploited existing conditions; it did not create them.)

Numerous videos of soldiers and other chavista thugs chasing, beating, and shooting unarmed protesters have circulated around the world since last month’s election. …

Or in other words, they’re behaving exactly as they did under Chavez’.

Post-election analyses have shown that even many of those who had supported caudillo Hugo Chávez before his recent death were among a majority of Venezuelans who voted for change last month. And that majority now has no choice but to resist the Cuban-backed regime that cannot hold on to power, let alone govern, unless it uses violence against the Venezuelan people.

Expecting Maduro to behave differently than his former boss is what I would expect from progressives. Anyone else should have figured out by now that in a culture which tends to breed brutal dictators, those who can count on apologists from the ranks of the “enlightened” in the developed world will feel the freest to indulge themselves in their Platonic/Robespierresque fantasies.

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eon

eon on May 1, 2013 at 9:32 PM