(SAYING) Venezuelan economist Orlando Ochoa says nationalistic slogans and socialist rhetoric cannot disguise what he sees as a simple truth: that the Chavez model is unsustainable.

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In addition the special powers he pursued to secure a socialist model were rejected by the voters.

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But Cuba's socialist model is changing, forced since the 1990s to open up to limited private enterprise to survive the loss of huge Soviet subsidies.

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As most of the developing world eschews the socialist model to embrace market capitalism, America rids the world of arch-terrorists and spreads material benefit to a widening global populace.

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