The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End

My article from the March 6, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End By Matthew Vadum After a long battle with cancer, Barack Obama’s less media-savvy comrade Hugo Chavez is finally dead. Venezuela’s Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, announced that the communist tyrant died yesterday after seeking medical treatment from the quacks and bunglers laughingly referred to as the Cuban health care system. Hidden away from the public for months, Chavez, whose election in 1999 sparked a leftist revival throughout Latin America, may have actually died some time ago. Chavez will be remembered not only for … Continue reading The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End

Death of a Venezuelan storm trooperette

I had a piece recently in Front Page Magazine about a vicious communist hoodlum in Venezuela who died. Her name was Lina Ron and this is what I wrote about her: History has shown that female fanatics on the left can be every bit as bloodthirsty and nihilistic as their male counterparts. Elena Ceausescu was keen on political murder and repression. She helped to steal from the Romanian people in order to feed her megalomaniacal husband’s edifice complex. During China’s grotesquely brutal Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong’s homicidal wife Jiang Qing did her bit to ideologically purify the People’s Republic. She … Continue reading Death of a Venezuelan storm trooperette