Yes, countries do not own resources. People do.
To me, all governments are thieves, but Venuzula under Chavez is kinda the king of the thieves. There are three countries on my do not go list (supplemented with countries with active conflicts) and I truly love to travel and go everywhere. The do not go list is simply because I am scared to go there
. (Venezuela, North Korea and Somalia are on the list).Anyway, feel free to disagree, but I see far less evil in a democratically elected leader doing what his own electorate wants him to do (I guess you call that "populism"?) than in a puppet dictatorship oppressing and massacring their own people and acting only to serve the financial interests of the foreign companies that put it in power.
True I disagree (and it goes without saying you are entitled to your own opinion). But I thought this was a much more mature conversation than we had previously on these boards
Well I have been both to North Korea and Venezuela, and nothing is more frightening than USA or France. Walking around Chicago, Miami or Paris at night? Yeah right.
) doesn't turn out to be the same as fascism in 
