Frank weeps for a fellow dictator

Bainimarama’s message of condolence for the Venezuelan people made it look like he identified with the ego-maniac Hugo Chavez. According to Bainimarama he was “a great and a visionary leader who was always firm in his convictions that the people of Venezuela deserved better living conditions.” It almost sounds like he’s talking about himself. Like Chavez, Bainimarama has done a good job of wrecking the economy and trying to use all the power of Government to make himself look good while all the time trumpeting empty words about ‘reform’. Unfortunately for Frank and the rest of us, we don’t have huge oil reserves. We have instead a dying sugar industry and a tourism industry that is threatened by the trashing of our image overseas thanks to the antics of Bainimarama’s goon squad.

Fiji Times March 10, 2013 Chavez’s death saddens PM