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Venezuela’s not alone at the end of the road to serfdom

15 March 2019

2:25 PM

15 March 2019

2:25 PM

Venezuela in social and economic collapse provides a contemporary case study of where socialism takes a country, but one too easily dismissed as a special case of gross mismanagement.

A recent visit to the region has reminded this tourist that Cuba’s experience has much to offer as an antidote to the affection for socialism increasingly evident in advanced western democracies, particularly among younger people.

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