The Times’ Nicholas Casey has for years provided an
unforgettable chronicle of human tragedy in the form of Venezuelan parents
burying their starving children, of hospital patients dying for lack of basics
such as antibiotics or oxygen tanks, of yet another generation of boat people
risking their lives on the high seas to flee their socialist paradise. Nearly 3
million Venezuelans — one-tenth of the total population — have now fled the
country, according to The Wall Street Journal, creating a refugee crisis
comparable to that of the Rohingya in Myanmar. So why the relative silence?
Part of the reason is that campus activism is a left-wing phenomenon, making it
awkward to target left-wing villains. A larger reason is that, until a few
years ago, the Venezuelan regime was a cause of the left, cheered by people
like Naomi Klein, Sean Penn and Danny Glover. More…
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