\u201cOnly a Presidential Referendum Can Save Venezuela from Its Humanitarian Crisis\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important, though, to keep trying. \u00a0The loss of freedom, repeated economic failure, and, sometimes,\u00a0millions of dead\u2013 these mean nothing. \u00a0As Comrade Stalin liked to say, if you\u2019re making an omelet, you have to break a few eggs. \u00a0Or, in another of his\u00a0famously charming bon mots<\/em>, \u201cThe death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions is a statistic.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 You may or may not have heard, but socialism has furnished us with\u00a0yet another illustrative example of government-induced starvation, now capped off with the introduction of forced-labor camps: \u00a0 \u201cVenezuela Reaches the End of the Road to Serfdom\u201d \u00a0 \u201cOnly a Presidential Referendum Can Save Venezuela from Its Humanitarian Crisis\u201d \u00a0 It\u2019s important, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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