In Cuba, instead of using democratic decision-making conventions, like voting, governance is done through the screams and hurled objects of swarming Castroite mobs. Any time a dissident becomes known, the mobs which carry out actos de repudio – acts of repudiation – are right there on the scene, howling communist slogans, throwing rocks, and wielding fists. That’s what passes for governance in Cuba, which calls itself a ‘revolutionary democracy.’ Nature’s bullies never had it better.

Today, that Castroite practice has been imported to Venezuela.

Miguel Octavio, writing on The Devil’s Excrement posts a passage from an article about a terrifying Chavista mob performing an acto de repudio circling and swarming around RCTV, the television station that is already under a death sentence by decree from Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

This is what it’s come to in Venezuela. Democracy (as in voting) is no longer in place – mob rule is. The market, (which is the people who like to watch the station of their own free will) is no longer in place – mob rule is. It’s worth it to pay close attention to this barbaric phenomenon, because this demonstrates how democracies die.

Read the whole thing here.