“[President Hugo] Chávez has now reached the Robert Mugabe level of economic incompetence by messing with the farm sector. Let’s hope he does not move past that to the Mao Zedong/Great Leap Forward level of economic mismanagement.” — Dan Drezner

The latest issue of Foreign Policy has a provocative piece by Alvaro Vargas Llosa on the “Latin American Idiots” who love Chávez and President Evo Morales of Bolivia.