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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his Club of Sycophantic Slugs

by Gustavo Coronel, Geologist at Chevron formerly with PDVSA

The gastropods called slugs (Derocerus reticulatus) are pretty repulsive mollusks: they are slimy, slippery and, being invertebrates, slide around.

They often feed on excrements. Given these less than ideal characteristics and their habit of attacking agricultural crops they are targeted by man. All in all they offer such a repugnant view that they were the objects of a Hollywood horror film (Slugs, 198. I find these specimens an adequate symbol for much of our Latin American and Iberoamerican political leadership today in power. I am talking about people like Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Raul Castro, Rafael Correa, Cristina Kirchner, Evo Morales, Fernando Lugo, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Miguel Angel Moratinos, Lula, Insulza and some others who are not in power but tried to be, like Peru’s Ullanta Humala or Mexico’s Andres Lopez Obrador. This group is spineless, as slugs are. They have renounced democracy and respect for human rights and have adopted obsolete ideologies that have field wherever they have been put in practice.

This club of slugs has principal members, such as the ones above mentioned but also have Associate members, also referred to as fellow travelers, “sandalistasâ€