Venezuela fails
The Miami Herald’s Feb. 15 editorial laments as a failure what has happened in and to Venezuela since the late Hugo Chávez became president in 1999. Yet the purpose of communism is failure, which it achieves royally.
Cuba’s example should have been evident to the majority of Venezuela’s electorate in 1998, but it wasn’t.
Philip Riggio, Aventura
This story was originally published February 19, 2017 at 2:00 PM with the headline "Venezuela fails."