Justice Minister Pedro Carreno became the subject of widespread criticism and ridicule by local media this week, when a journalist asked if it wasn't contradictory to attack capitalism while sporting a $180 Louis Vuitton tie and $500 Gucci shoes.
Apparently caught off guard, Carreno stammered unintelligibly for a few seconds before responding: "It's not contradictory because I would like Venezuela to produce all this, that way I could purchase things produced here instead of 95 percent of what we consume being imported."
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Information Minister Willian Lara often wears Tommy Hilfiger jackets, although they are red - the color of Chavez's ruling party. And Luis Acosta, the pro-Chavez governor of Carabobo state, argued last year that authorities can purchase expensive cars without sacrificing their revolutionary ideals.
"Is it that we revolutionaries don't have the right to have a Hummer or a car? If we make money, we can do it," Acosta said.
What a hoot....
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Their socialists sound just like ours. Witness Hillary Clinton and her "cattle futures" investments of the 90s: somehow it was fine for her but for anyone but a Democrat -- it is evil and corrupt.
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