VENEZUELA'S IGNORED IMPLOSION: (A CUBAN COMMUNIST CANCER)

VENEZUELA'S IGNORED IMPLOSION: (A CUBAN COMMUNIST CANCER)

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH: HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - TUES. MAY 1/18

 

   ( Yes, this is a Cuban Communist Cancer. ghk) The article "Venezuela's Ignored Implosion" is by Matthew Hanley. He is senior fellow with National Catholic Bioethics. April 26/18. info@frinstiute.org

 

    "I am thinking of the humanitarian catastrophe that has been unfolding in Venezuela the past few ; years; news about it has been rather limited and carefully massaged. The horrors are sometimes cataloged sparingly. But the "why" is not properly examined. (Thanks to the mainstream media. ghk)

 

    A recent New York Times story, for example, described the burgeoning tuberculosis outbreak now afflicting the country. This disease, regarded as a solid indicator for poverty levels in general, had been mainly under control but now is hitting even the middle classes in Venezuela. We read that the outbreak is occurring during "a profound economic crisis," and that "declining nutrition from food shortages" is a factor. There is nary a word about what triggered the economic crisis and the food shortages. HINT HARD-CORE SOCIALISM. ...

 

    This Times story tells us of one poor fellow stricken with a particularly virulent form of tuberculosis who wound up losing 77 pounds. I mention this because, as grave as this is, there are other general weight lose statistics that are even more staggering. Reuters recently reported that the average Venezuelan has lost 24 pounds in the past year! (That's up from the average 19-pound loss the year before.)

 

    Oh, and over 80 per cent of Venezuelan households are mired in poverty. (now closer to 90 percent). That sure sounds like they are experiencing "equal sharing of miseries," which Churchill sarcastically dubbed the "inherent virtue of socialism." More numbers: one in seven Venezuelans (four million out of 28 million) have fled in desperation rather than pick through garbage for food; a mass migration here in own hemisphere that we hear little about. ...

 

    The blazen disregard for socialism's track record is a fundamental inhumane act - one only mitigated by genuine naivete. ... But to countenance Marxism or socialism is to court human misery, whatever lofty rhetoric is banded in its defense. Indeed, putting into practice means, as St. John Paul II noted, "The working man himself would be among the first to suffer." And no surprise: former president Hugo Chavez"s daughter just happens to be the wealthiest person in Venezuela. Apparently something went slightly wrong on the road to the Bolivarian "revolution" and equality. ...

 

    Dostoevsky and several popes highlighted its philosophical and yes, spiritual dangers, and warned of tyrannies to come. It came in spades. The core of the Marxist project - atheism and corresponding devaluation of individual human rights and liberties has long been on full display. Venezuela's bishops have spoken out ... Pope Francis, alas, often vocal in support of migrants and persecuted groups like the Rohngya, has seemed reluctant to echo his brother bishops in Venezuela.

 

    Some in our country are skeptical of critiques when they come from Christian quarters. But we know what socialism's most avid advocates actually said. Marx made a hight priority of abolishing the family and private property, and envisioned peace precisely the same way Mohammed did: "The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Islam." (Substitute socialism for Islam and you've got functional interchangeability). The goal of socialism, as Lenin remarked, is communism. And communism, according to Mao Zedong, "is not love," but " a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."  ...

 

    There is an enduring market for the vindictiveness that socialism stokes - and cloaks under the illusion of being on the "right side of history." (Hogwash. ghk) Another whole generation is not learning one of the plainest lessons of history. According to recent surveys, young people today express a shockingly high level of support for socialism.... It's as good an indicator as any of the failure of our public education system.... George H. Kubeck

P.S. It is likely that Putin's most successful attack on America are the Marxist professors on campus?