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UD_LOVIO-Louis Vuitton Carreño: 'El Capitalismo es Malo'

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This is a priceless video from You Tube.
It has Venezuela’s Interior Minister Pedro Carreno talking to reporters
about the greatness of socialism. But then the clouds parted and the
sun shown down on this man and his Gucci and Louis Vuitton clothing. A
reporter asked him whether or not he was being hypocritical by bashing
capitalism while wearing the fruits of its labor.

According to Reuters
he said: “I don’t, uh … I … of course,” stammered Carreno on Tuesday
before regaining his composure. “It’s not contradictory because I would
like Venezuela to produce all this so I could buy stuff produced here
instead of 95 percent of what we consume being imported.”

Here’s the whole story:

CARACAS (Reuters) - A video of a Gucci- and Louis
Vuitton-clad politician attacking capitalism then struggling to explain
how his luxurious clothes square with his socialist beliefs has become
an instant YouTube hit in Venezuela.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Pedro Carreno was momentarily at a loss
for words when a journalist interrupted his speech and asked if it was
not contradictory to criticize capitalism while wearing Gucci shoes and
a tie made by Parisian luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton.

“I don’t, uh … I … of course,” stammered Carreno on Tuesday before
regaining his composure. “It’s not contradictory because I would like
Venezuela to produce all this so I could buy stuff produced here
instead of 95 percent of what we consume being imported.”

The video clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDsdXkY4UlE) had been
viewed more than 15,000 times on Thursday, a day after it was posted on
the YouTube Web site.

Despite the best efforts of left-wing President Hugo Chavez to
instill austere socialist values in its people, the oil-rich South
American nation remains attached to consumerism.

Riding a boom in oil prices, middle-class and wealthy Venezuelans
are on a spending spree, guzzling fine whiskies and snapping up luxury
cars. Poorer Venezuelans also have benefited, with subsidies driving a
spike in demand for basic products.

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