Where are all the Chavez and Maduro Catholycs Today?

As you know, I try not to comment on topics that do not affect the Archdiocese of Washington DC.  However, there had been dead silence from the liberal Catholycs regarding the situation in Venezuela.


When Chavez took control of Venezuela, liberal Catholycs, similar to the boys and girls over at the National Catholic Reporter, were jumping all over themselves about how great things.  They kept telling us how wonderful things were, how terrible we in the US were, etc.  When I would tell them that it will come crashing down, I was told that I had no idea of what I was talking about.


However, over the last year or so, there has been SILENCE about their support for the socialist government of Maduro.  Could it be because the country no longer had medical supplies, limited food, etc.?  Years of mismanagement, and a drop in the price of oil has turned Venezuela into a third world country.


Maybe those liberal Catholycs should start sending their cash to the poor in Venezuela, and deprive themselves of a couple of meals.


I doubt it, because they are all talk.

Chavez and the Catholic Left - The Silence is Deafening.

A couple of years ago, I was having dinner with a local family, including their parents. The entire family was Catholic, although the dad was on the Catholic left.

During dinner, he waxed on and on about Hugo Chavez -- free education, free health care, the social programs, etc. Of course, we got into a heated political discussion. I saw him a Communist dictator who will bring the country down. He saw it as the new workers paradise, what every Catholic should push for.

Today, thanks to Hugo:

- Human Rights Watch representatives have been expelled from the country
- banning of Radio Caracal Television, one of the few voices of opposition, in 2007 (does the Fairness Doctrine come to mind here?)
- vandalism of the Caracas municipal city hall, with the destruction of all of the vehicles and equipment (since Hugo's man lost the local election)
- inflation is apx. 30%
- crime is 2.5 times higher then when Chavez took office
- Caracas is the murder capital of the world, with more crime than in Sao Paulo or Johannesburg
- PDVSA, the state run oil company, is rife with mismanagement and corruption.
- Oil production is only 25% of what it was when Chavez took office
- PDVSA has a debt of apx. $10 billion, with workers and contractors complaining of no salaries or payments for work done

So the other day I asked myself, after story after story about Hugao, where is the Social Justice/Catholic Left?

Almost a decade ago, Hugo was held up as the model of what the US should be and what is wrong with the US. He was to Catholic Left's role model. Today, we hear nothing about him from them.

Maybe they have finally learned what many of us realized long ago, but cannot admit to it.

He is a typical socialist/communist dictator. Plain and simple.

Yet the Catholic Left/Social Justice crowd is silent.

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