“ While the world awaits Robert Mugabe’s departure from Zimbabwe, we have watched the start of another Zimbabwe in the making in South America. Chavez has followed Mugabe’s economic playbook, and he will find the same results: poverty, despair, and shortages in a land that should produce surpluses. Hopefully Venezuelans will draw the appropriate lessons from Mugabe’s regime and rid themselves of Chavez before complete economic collapse. Otherwise, they too will learn what 150,000% inflation means.