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Thank you for being the only one to answer my question. But let me make another one. We will not agree on an answer, you don't even have to reply if you don't

• mvaliente2001 11y ago
  Relationship between some improvement in health services and economic collapse? No. I think the economic trouble is due to a bigger, wider mismanagement. Health and education are just a drop of water that could (and should) remain untouched even after the prices of oil went down. When I talked about an increase in health and education expenditures, I was talking about increase in the percentage of the budget, so they were done at expense of other things, and it began before the increase in oil prices. The years previous to Chavez, the health budget was 3.5-4.5% and it went up to 6.0%, and remained above 5.0 up to 2010. As you can see, these are not exorbitant expenses, and they are below other countries' expenditures like Uruguay, Tanzania or Uganda [1]. The economical crisis is not because the government increasing expenditures in some basic human needs, but because there hasn't been a cut down anything at all. There are a lot of valid criticisms that can be done to Venezuela's government, but expending a little bit more in its people is not one, in my opinion. [1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS