The Venezuela-Cuba Freebie Vacation?

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.25.07 | 4:13 PM ET

You bet. It’s Karl Marx meets Club Med! USA Today reports: “Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has plans to sign an agreement with Cuba to send at least 100,000 poor Venezuelans to the communist-led island for no-cost vacations, an official said Wednesday.” A free vacation? That’s one item on the socialist agenda I can get behind.