But I'm pretty damn sure that the Venezuelan model leads to rule-by-bandit
I think you should maybe re-read what I wrote. Most of my praise for Venezuela is in it's Bolivarian principles, but it's application has not been desirable. I agree that it has been totally mismanaged.
You'll notice, however, that my suggestion for Venezuela wasn't the Venezuelan model, but a mixture of Lulaism and the Norwegian model.
Venezuela ain't no Scandinavia.
And there's reasons for that. But that doesn't mean that Venezuela can't move towards a functional social democratic model.
In fact, there's no better example than Rwanda, a country that 15 years ago, was hacking itself apart, and has been able to move in very different direction in that time.
I think you should maybe re-read what I wrote. Most of my praise for Venezuela is in it's Bolivarian principles, but it's application has not been desirable. I agree that it has been totally mismanaged.
You'll notice, however, that my suggestion for Venezuela wasn't the Venezuelan model, but a mixture of Lulaism and the Norwegian model.
Venezuela ain't no Scandinavia.
And there's reasons for that. But that doesn't mean that Venezuela can't move towards a functional social democratic model.
In fact, there's no better example than Rwanda, a country that 15 years ago, was hacking itself apart, and has been able to move in very different direction in that time.