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Can a Beauty Queens Murder Bring Down Socialism?
January 16, 2014 by David Paulin
Beauty queens are revered in Venezuela, none more so than those crowned Miss Venezuela. So when a beloved former Miss named Mónica Spear and her ex-husband were murdered by highway bandits, the crime sparked national outrage touching off street protests, non-stop media coverage, and an ongoing national conversation about the socialist governments failure to a stop a runaway murder epidemic.
Now, outrage over the murders is prompting many Venezuelans to confront the contradictions of Venezuela-style socialism. One of the biggest ironies: violent crime has exploded since President Hugo Chávez, a firebrand leftist, took office 15 years ago. This has happened, moreover, as capitalism has increasingly been dismantled supposedly replaced by more economic equality and social justice in the oil-rich yet impoverished South American nation.
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As the fallout over the death of a beauty queen plays out, cynicism is likely to grow toward Venezuela-style socialism. So will murder, corruption, and economic decline. How ironic that a beauty queens death may serve as a catalyst for positive change that opposition candidates have been unable to achieve by defeating Hugo Chávez or Nicolás Maduro at the polls.
Can a Beauty Queen?s Murder Bring Down Socialism? | FrontPage Magazine
Can a Beauty Queens Murder Bring Down Socialism?
January 16, 2014 by David Paulin
Beauty queens are revered in Venezuela, none more so than those crowned Miss Venezuela. So when a beloved former Miss named Mónica Spear and her ex-husband were murdered by highway bandits, the crime sparked national outrage touching off street protests, non-stop media coverage, and an ongoing national conversation about the socialist governments failure to a stop a runaway murder epidemic.
Now, outrage over the murders is prompting many Venezuelans to confront the contradictions of Venezuela-style socialism. One of the biggest ironies: violent crime has exploded since President Hugo Chávez, a firebrand leftist, took office 15 years ago. This has happened, moreover, as capitalism has increasingly been dismantled supposedly replaced by more economic equality and social justice in the oil-rich yet impoverished South American nation.
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As the fallout over the death of a beauty queen plays out, cynicism is likely to grow toward Venezuela-style socialism. So will murder, corruption, and economic decline. How ironic that a beauty queens death may serve as a catalyst for positive change that opposition candidates have been unable to achieve by defeating Hugo Chávez or Nicolás Maduro at the polls.
Can a Beauty Queen?s Murder Bring Down Socialism? | FrontPage Magazine
