Venezuelan Gun Destruction Shows Danger of ‘Just Following Orders’ Culture

It should surprise no one that Reverol has been indicted in the U.S. on drug-trafficking charges, or that drug money fuels much of the criminal violence plaguing Venezuela. Nor should it surprise us that socialist President Nicolás Maduro calls a Marxist Spanish professor “the Jesus Christ of economics.”

So is anyone surprised a tyrant, desperate to hold on to power, demands a monopoly of violence?  Or that such an imbalance in power results in a murderous military/police state? [More]

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