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Venezuelan archbishop calls for Chavez to stop posturing and address urgent problems

The Archbishop is right. And Socialism is as much of a disaster as a political system as Capitalism is. Still, in Latin America, you didn't hear this sort of hue and cry under right wing governments. I think the Church leaders knew that if they spoke out they'd end up like Msgr. Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez.

Forgive my generalities and cynicism and, as always, I'm open to correction, but I don't believe there has been this sort of vocal criticism under right-wing dictatorships whose leaders have been trained by the School of the Americas. Perhaps church leaders are becoming more courageous. I believe Msgr. Romero is a saint.