Hugo Chavez went to hospital today for an emergency. I wrote the following blog two months ago.
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I'm not a mean person but the schadenfreude in me comes out when I see a person who is anti-commerce, making his people suffer, being forced to survive on the dregs of anti-commerce medicine.
I’m talking about Hugo Chavez who has painted himself into a ideological corner only to find he has cancer that would best be treated in one of the thriving modern pro-commerce societies. Instead he has to go to Cuba a backwater of anti-commerce tyranny where medical care is 70 years behind the time.
I suspect that the Cuban tyrants who run the government have provided some up-to-date pro-commerce medicine for themselves and visiting tyrants but I doubt that it is close to first class.
Arabs have always had the same problem and until the last decade most Arab tyrants secretly went to Israel’s Hadassah Hospital for care.
All you have to do is be an anti-commerce tyrant and you can suffer the medical consequences.