Stupidest excuse for Venezuela's failures I've seen so far...

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Just when you thought the "US/CIA is destroying Venezuela" excuse was stupid enough, we get this one...

Ken Livingstone: Venezuela crisis caused by Chávez's failure to kill oligarchs

Guardian UK ^ | Aug 3, 2017 | Jessica Elgot

Ken Livingstone, a former mayor of London, has blamed the turmoil in Venezuela on Hugo Chávez’s unwillingness to execute “oligarchs” after he came to power.
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“One of the things that Chávez did when he came to power, he didn’t kill all the oligarchs. There was about 200 families who controlled about 80% of the wealth in Venezuela,” Livingstone told Talk Radio.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/aug/03/ken-livingstone-venezuela-crisis-hugo-chavez-oligarchs

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1. Time to put old Ken out to pasture.