Enrique (22,024 posts)
Chavez wasted money on health care when he could have built skyscrapers
just mentioned on Democracy Now.
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/06/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers/
One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death comes from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson (3/5/13):
Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains were meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world's tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.
That's right: Chavez squandered his nation's oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world's tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?
In case you're curious about what kind of results this kooky agenda had, here's a chart (NACLA, 10/8/12) based on World Bank poverty stats–showing the proportion of Venezuelans living on less than $2 a day falling from 35 percent to 13 percent over three years. (For comparison purposes, there's a similar stat for Brazil, which made substantial but less dramatic progress against poverty over the same time period.)
Of course, during this time, the number of Venezuelans living in the world's tallest building went from 0 percent to 0 percent, while the number of copies of the Mona Lisa remained flat, at none. So you have to say that Chavez's presidency was overall pretty disappointing–at least by AP's standards.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022477608Yeah the AP is known for their right wing slant.
Now the reason I brought this thread over here.
A lousy freeper troll shows up and tries to educate the moonbats about Chavez and what the pardise on earth is really like.
Perseus (5 posts)
55. Where do you people get your information from?
Has anyone on this blog ever been in Venezuela?
Hospitals are so underfunded there that its hard to get a band-aid, people die in corridors waiting for a physician to treat them. Many Cuban "Doctors" were taken to Venezuela and medicine in Cuba is not as good as what Michael Moore made you believe. They misdiagnosed Chavez cancer and that is why he never got any better, a Venezuelan Dr. diagnosed him correctly but because Chavez trusted more the Cubans than his own people, he decided to get treatment in Cuba. Venezuela is blessed with some of the best minds in the medical field, a proof of that is that there are many hospitals in the USA where Venezuelans are the head of different departments. I don't know if he is still there but the head of the cardiology department at the Mass General Hospital was from Venezuela during the 1980s.
It is truly amazing how fanatic the people at DU are, I have family and friends who live there, all the praises and support for Chavez just shows the ignorance that prevails at DU in regards to Chavez and Venezuela.
All of you become frustrated when trying to discuss issues with republicans because, not only that they don't listen, but most of their answers are nothing but insults and wisecracks. Sorry to tell you but, from what I have read here and the answers I got to a previous blog of mine, you are no better. Needless to say, it was a very frustrating exchange.
I was in Venezuela in 1998 during the presidential campaign, and what I heard from Chavez was fantastic, I told my family that if I could vote there I would vote for him, but the reality of his years as president is very different. I also won't deny that, on paper, he had very good ideas, but the people he surrounded himself with and the advice he received from Castro deviated him from his original goals. He has created division between classes, Venezuela was never knows for kidnappings, it is now rampant, the killings, the corruption from government officials.
I am sure that most of you cringe about Scalia and Roberts here in the USA, but they are nothing compared to the supreme court in Venezuela, and that is saying a lot.
Education is meant to indoctrinate children to the "Socialist" agenda, and teach Cuban philosophy. Chavez gave more to Cuba than to the Venezuelan people, the poor are not better off, some of them do love him out of ignorance, but not because their life is better off today.
Once again, I dare any of you Chavez supporters to visit Venezuela and see for yourselves, and stop drinking the cool-aid that people like Amy Goodman and the "Revolution will not be televised" try to sell.
Also, don't bother to answer this entry because I will not read the wisecracks that i am sure will be posted against my entry.
Educate yourselves, and this will be a better World.
Sounds a lot like what is going on here, the poor are not better off but they love 0bama out of ignorance.
The only responses so far,
Enrique (22,024 posts)
56. Amy Goodman is a good source
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she doesn't sell kool-aid, as you put it. She gives information, including criticisms of Chavez.
Catherina (27,707 posts)
58. Pure comedy gold.
Love always,
a Chavez supporter who spent much time in Venezuela
Yeah that was a real knee slapper, sadly the low information voters in Venezuela have to live under these conditions.
