Brilliant Article: Hugo Chávez slips into demagogy

international | crime and justice | other press Monday January 17, 2005 03:11 by Big Irish from the USA

fter routing the opposition at the polls last year, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has signalled an escalation of his offensive against the country's elites with a "war" on latifundio, big rural estates that he blames for rural poverty. This is a mistake.