Analyst estimates Chávez’s family fortune at around $2 billion

Not bad for the little corporal, derisively known by his countrymen as El Loco.

People are so afraid of him and his successor that they will not pronounce his name and do not want to think about him. The police will shoot you and nothing will happen to the police. It is very dangerous. One wonders why Chavez was never indicted by the much vaunted world court for crimes against humanity?

Here is what Amnesty International says about Chavez in part:

1. Charges against people were politically motivated and overcrowding in the prisons led to many deaths.

2. Leopoldo Lopez illegally prevented from running for office.

3. Hundreds of protests monthly and numerous government threats against even the mildest protests.

4. Police used to threaten people and sometimes murder them.

5. Judges fired for giving the wrong verdicts. High-ranking officials convicted on phony charges. People held in prison without trial.

6. Widespread violence and crime.

Multiply all that by the 14 years that El Loco ruled, and you have an idea of the human rights abuse in Venezuela.

Here is a link to Amnesty International's 2012 report on Venezuela:

http://amnesty.org/en/region/venezuela/report-2012

Here is Wall Street Journal's Latin America expert Mary Anastasia O'Grady on the likely Cuban-influenced successor to Chavez:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578344620552736516.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Here is an older column of hers on the Cubanization of the Latin America, in case you don't think that communism is a threat:

http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200504290714

 

Blood money of a mercenary.