yeah something that would never happen in a Capitalist country!
Whenever the horrors and misery of, say, North Vietnam, Maoist China, or cold-war-era Poland were noted, the usual anti-anti-communist cry was, "But there's also injustice in the USA!".
Well, true, there is, but in the USA, there hasn't been tens of millions of dead from starvation, one-party rule where saying the wrong thing can cost you your head, or a gulag empire for reeducating anybody the dictator du jour doesn't like.
Still, once more, the biggest, and most obvious, problem in all of the "socialist" arguments made here in favor of Chavez is that none of his defenders would, in a million years, think for a minute of leaving their own evil, unjust, capitalistic country and moving to
any good, just, socialist country -- not even to a relatively benign one like, say, 1960s pre-Soviet-invasion Czechoslovakia, let alone to Chavez's tin-pot dictatorship.
The emigration balance in the communist - vs. - capitalist world has been a few hundreds of millions moving, or trying to move, to the capitalist west from the socialist east, and a few hundreds (if that) going the other way.
Pick an immigrant at random, and the chances of him moving from a capitalist country to a socialist one are comparable to the chances of winning the lottery. The chances are even lower -- that is, zero -- that one of the brave defenders of the great and just socialist system will move to such a country.
So much for socialism being comparable, let alone superior, to capitalism in the real world. As (I think) Emerson said in a different context but is perfectly applicable to our brave defenders of the socialist system, "your actions speak so loudly, I can't hear what you're saying".