Dr. Rowley’s cozy friendship with our Venezuelan neighbor and
resident tyrant Nicolas Maduro is clearly rubbing off on him. He’s adopted Maduro’s fondness for Conga line
dancing, making rambling speeches and threatening political rivals with
violence. It now appears that Dr. Rowley has also developed a taste for that
favorite dish of the Maduro regime; public displays of ridiculous political
propaganda. That’s because on Wednesday Dr. Rowley’s government held what it
described as a “public education exercise” on the economics of the energy
industry at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Except the public wasn’t invited, and
people educated in economics and the energy industry weren’t allowed to speak.