I realize that whoever came up with this method of assigning order to a queue waiting to buy corn flour at a Venezuelan supermarket probably had no idea of the historical associations, but still, it makes one shudder.
At Caracas Chronicles, Francisco Toro labels it “Annals of Revolutionary Dignity.”
Of more immediate concern to Venezuelans is that 14 years into the Bolivarian Revolution, during which about a trillion dollars in oil revenue has flowed into government coffers, there are chronic shortages of corn meal and other basic goods.
The great Mexican journalist Alma Guillermoprieto has an excellent piece in The New York Review of Books on “Chavismo After Chávez.”
(Hat tip: Caracas Chronicle)
