"... your point? ..."  Just noting the huge inconsistency in Ms. Klein's attitude toward market-economy nations that produce crude oil (Canada is Evil because of tar sands, e.g.), and the 'free pass ' a socialist nations gets - even if it is one of the largest oil exporters in the world (thus ultimately responsible for a helluva lot of CO2 generation).  It appears as a breathtaking exercise in rationalizing complete contradiction.

"... Chavez used Venezuela's oil wealth to benefit the wretched poor ..."  Did he?  Or did he put up one or two Potemkin apartment blocks, and use the rest of the funds to enrich himself, his family, his cronies in the Army, and various politicians around the Caribbean basin?  Ordinary, middle-class people that I've met from Venezuela don't speak of Hugo C. in anywhere near the glowing terms that you and Ms. Klein might prefer.  :-/

Give him credit - he *did* level the income gap between poor and middle-class.  (Now *everybody* is poor!)  :(