Hugo Chavez, uno pinches tirano, is going to save Boston’s poor by providing them with cheap heating oil:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has begun a program of discounted heating fuel sales for low-income customers in Boston, following up on promises to help the poor throughout the Americas.

The fuel will be sold for 60 cents to 80 cents less than prevailing retail prices, according to Felix Rodriguez, president of Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S. refining and marketing business owned by Venezuela’s state oil company. Citgo will sell 12 million gallons of fuel through two nonprofit groups, he said.

What ego. Hugo will do anything to pump up his delusions of grandeur, even at the expense of his own people in Venezuela:

But Mr Chavez’s “revolution” had little real impact on the lives of ordinary Venezuelans, who still suffer from chronic poverty and widespread unemployment despite the country’s oil wealth.

Hugo’s stunts will play well to the radical Left, who live in la-la land, buying into anything that “opposes” the established order — in this case, anything related to the gas and or oil industry. And the word “poor” is involved — even though Chavez ignores his own poor.

Just as Castro’s evils are ignored by the Left, so are Chavez’s. They have a lot in common. They’re both thugs.