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Sick jokes

Now Chavez is offering cut rate heating oil to assist Europe's poor families.

A nice gesture, no?

No. Not when you remember that poverty in Venezuela, which saw a crippling 43% of its population living in poverty in 1999, has risen dramatically in the past six years, and now has 53% of its population below that level. At the same time, inequality has been on the rise, with income from capital increasing and income from labor decreasing. Conclusion? The poor are being exploited to enrich Chavez and his cronies.

This isn't populism. This is dictatoral exploitation. And it's sick.