Chávez has learned nothing from history

On his annual visit to Minsk on September 9, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez suggested to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that their two countries should unite to become a single republic. The left-leaning daily Népszava comments: "If this were April we could pass it off as a joke. ... It very much seems that the Venezuelan president has learned nothing from the mistakes, blunders and tactical faux-pas committed by the politicians of socialist countries. Chávez tends to fall prey to the same extreme behaviour that was the undoing of his political and ideological predecessors. Much has changed in Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union. What has not changed is the following: you can't construct a new, left-wing world on the basis of a failed schema."

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