I'd rather see the people of Venezuela owning the oilfields than some fucking corporation.
Unfortunately, It's Chavez who owns the oilfields. Just look at how dirt poor the rest of the country is.
On balance I quite like Chavez; however the sort of decentralisation of power and checks and balances to stop corruption and the sort of Mugabe-esque cult of personality from developing is absent so far. It would be nice to see some grassroots organisation there instead of the cult of Chavez becoming yet stronger
Hostory has too few examples of this actually happening though.
- his stated aims are noble but nobody needs another Castro.
The stated aims of Napoleon the pig were noble too, as well as Castros.
It's a sad fact of reality, that the relative corruption of a socio/political system tends to be inversely porportional to it's stated aims.
Just look at Christianity and Communisim. They both promised a better world for the common man, but delivered the opposite.