Wednesday 8 July 2009

Libre, Soberana e Independiente

As Bolivarianism takes shape, it is shaping up to be decidedly diverse, embracing both the Castros and Manuel Zalaya, whose programme is to do little or nothing more than Tories were once at least resigned to not repealing, and Gaullists or Christian Democrats do proactively as a matter of course.

Gaullists, Christian Democrats, and Democrats. Cuba may have found a post-Soviet sponsor in Venezuela for the lack of any other option. But President Obama can either embrace Zalaya, his near ideological kinsman, or hand him over into the arms of Chávez, whom he would then come more and more to resemble. Which is it to be?

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