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The Daily Mail is a tabloid and not worth responding to. Extreme poverty halved under Chavez. The most vulnerable citizens in Venezuela (poor, indigenous Venez
by door4 8y ago
The Daily Mail is a tabloid and not worth responding to.
Extreme poverty halved under Chavez. The most vulnerable citizens in Venezuela (poor, indigenous Venezuelans) are the strongest supporters of the socialist government.
Venezuela has had economic problems, relating to their over-reliance on oil revenue (which has always been a problem and has nothing to do with socialism), and bad monetary policy (which again, is not at all related to socialism)
Meanwhile, the US continues to levy harsher sanctions aimed at forcing regime change (ie, so their country is run by a puppet state friendly to US capital), which only makes the crisis worse.
- candiodari 8y agoI find it hard to believe that's still true. The only supporters left are the worst of the worst : police and military personnel who don't do it for the money, but because the state let's them bully, beat up and even rape. Same happened in the Soviet Union, but of course giving total power to the state (def. of socialism) never leads to the people that are the state (all states are nothing but a group of people) abusing that power to get away with bullying, rape and murder. Especially once, inevitably, a socialist state runs out of other ways to pay them. They can't survive without them. But noooo, it's outside sabotage, as if capitalist states don't sabotage each other too....