Venezuelan Socialism in Action: Starvation for the People, Desk Empanadas for the Powerful
President Maduro pulls a tasty snack out of his desk during a live broadcast
President Maduro pulls a tasty snack out of his desk during a live broadcast
Venezuelan grocery stores have products shoppers don't want.
Nicolas Maduro's brand of socialism has brought poverty, hunger, and death.
The famed MIT linguist once praised former socialist President Hugo Chávez. How about now?
A vital lesson, as we confront calls for more regulation and government control in all aspects of our lives.
Millennials may have mixed views of capitalism, but they hold socialism in even lower regard.
Embargoes don't work. Let capitalism and socialism duke it out.
Socialism and big government remain popular, particularly among young people.
"I believe that the color of radicalism today is not red, but green."
Venezuela descends into chaos as Chomsky says he's right about Hugo Chavez's sharp poverty reduction.
Protests over starvation and the deteriorating economic and political conditions reveal the end-game in any socialist project.
At least 20 people have died during unrest this month.
Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela is one place where Friedrich Hayek's most dire warnings remain relevant.
It's not the bakers who are waging "economic war" against the people of Venezuela. It's the government.
He stood for natural rights, racial equality, and economic liberty in a free labor system. At the heart of his worldview was the principle of self-ownership.
The calls arise after allegations of corruption and human rights abuses under Maduro.
Stories that inspire others to generate bitcoins for the victims of socialism and legal representation for cellphone Romeos.
Socialist Venezuela may not outlast Fidel Castro by much.
How cryptocurrency is turning socialism against itself
Government responds to inflationary pressure by contributing to it.
Maduro-aligned election board delays referendum until 2017, virtually guaranteeing socialist rule until 2019.
It's allure is a primitive evolutionary hold over.
2008 Cato Institute Milton Friedman Prize winner Yon Goicoechea is among the arrested.
Maduro's government claims the lines are a calculated political attempt to stir up "anxiety."
Can be ordered to work in fields for up to 60 days or longer to provide food for starving country.
It's an on-brand choice for the Democratic Socialist senator.
Free-market capitalism, I choose you.
Planning a recovery is tough in a country where an awful lot of guys with guns aren't ready to admit that socialism has failed again.
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
Self-induced catastrophe
President Maduro says images of the horror his country has become are part of a conspiracy against his government.
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One of baseball's weirdest players ever wants to be chief executive of America's crunchiest state.
The story of Chile's success starts in the mid-1970s, when Chile's military government abandoned socialism and started to implement economic reforms.
What system better allows people the freedom to live how they choose?
Vigilante violence plagues the streets, citizens are hunting dogs and cats for food, but the president insists Bolivarian socialism will save the day.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds points to the real-time economics lessons coming out of Venezuela...
Bolivarian socialism apparently means financing things like lousy race-car drivers while the people lack medicine, food, and toilet paper.
Former Reasoner Michael Moynihan hosts, Reason contributor Johan Norberg calls in to discuss Bernie Sanders and socialism
Seize the means of production? Meh. Millennials love private enterprise-as long as you don't call it "capitalism."
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