Hugo Chavez accuses us of planning to wreck the Venezuelan economy before his socialist policies have a chance to.

Chavez, speaking Thursday on his newly scheduled prime-time TV talk show, predicted that “one of the fiercest battle fronts” was coming ahead as Washington readied to destroy Venezuela economically.

He said that recent comments by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accusing Chavez of “destroying” his country’s economy meant that “the imperialist plan of the moment” had turned to economic sabotage.

I see what he’s doing. Like it or not, Chavez is not an idiot. He is counting on socialism to ruin his nation’s economy and is using the now state controlled media apparatus to set the U.S. up to take the blame in the minds of his people. That way he gets an impoverished and therefore maleable population to control, as well as a scapegoat to shift all the blame away from his own regime.

Textbook. And those of us with our eyes open saw it coming.

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