Marxism alive and well in South America

Another Hugo Chavez is born. This time in Peru. Pedro Castillo has been voted in, just, as the next president of Peru. They never learn in these countries. Chavez became president in Venezuela with golden promises of caring for the poor on a platform of socialism that was going to transform the lives and livelihoods of the working class. But he was a demagogue who failed to understand basic mathematics and soon started down the road to ruin that is Venezuela today. His devoted loyalist bus-driving successor Nicolas Maduro followed the same path and pretty well turned the country into an econmic scrapheap, helped along by massive corruption and supression of anything that sounded like democracy. Now here we have Pedro Castillo, a Marxist, in Peru promising the same sort of nirvana, an economic miracle for the poor. Anyone with any cash in the bank has aleady begun to remove it and send it out of the country. The added danger of course is that Russia and China will smell an opportunity to get their claws into the Castillo government, as they have done in Caracas, and win influence and power in the region while the United States will do nothing because they cannot be seen to be giving any support to Marxist-orientated nations. So watch out for the Mexican-hat-wearing President Castillo and his economic Marxist dreams going the way of the Chavez/Maduro experiment.