Krugman quality control worsens

Eric Beck rayrena at accesshub.net
Fri Jul 28 15:30:26 PDT 2000


Doug wrote:


>This is hilarious. Chavez is guilty of stoking class antagonisms in
>an oil-rich country where, as the NYT article pointed out, 80% of the
>population lives under an undefined poverty line. Clearly the
>counterrevolution is already well underway.

It's starting to sound like Guatemala 1954: mildly leftist, sorta-nationalist government makes some motions at land and wealth redistribution; it's all fairly innocuous, but of course we must nip this commie thing in the bud. Probably we'll have to use brutal force.

Eric



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