Hugo Chavez

'When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on'  ​George Orwell in 'Homage to Catalonia'

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​Sebastiaio Salgado

Miners in Serra Pelada, Brasil

​There is an ambiguity in Orwell's phrase.  Some people sympathise with the policeman not the worker.  It's a preference I find incomprehensible but other than that politics is not especially complicated.

I do not think that Hugo Chavez had to ask himself whose side he was on.  ​

We are all poorer for his leaving.