A Coup in Venezuela Means Another Victory For Corruption

[Judi Lynn]

A Coup in Venezuela Means Another Victory For Corruption
Posted: 03/12/2014 5:27 pm

The United States and Canada have plenty of reasons to be afraid of the (oil rich) Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, so they are doing their utmost to address their perceived problem.

The US, in particular, fears that Venezuela's social democracy will set a dangerous precedent, and that, if allowed, other countries will follow suit. They also fear the status quo, wherein they are denied control over Venezuela's oil reserves (the world's largest).

The Bolivarian revolution itself, initiated by late president Hugo Chavez in 1998 and continuing with president Nicolas Maduro, is emblematic of the US' s "problem", even as the legitimacy of the revolution is beyond dispute:

Chavez, who died of cancer on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, won 18 of 19 contested elections in a country whose electoral system was described by former US president Jimmy Carter as "the best in the world".

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-taliano/venezuela-politics_b_4948047.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Unavoidable facts mentioned in the article:

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Some of the Bolivarian Revolution's accomplishments are listed below:

-Between 1998 and 2011, the poverty rate dropped from 49% to 27.4%

-Venezuela's extreme poverty rate dropped from 11.4% to 6.9% in ten years

-Venezuela reduced its extreme poverty rate from 6.3% to 5.5% in 2013 alone

-Venezuela now boasts the lowest Gini coefficient in Latin America (a measure of income inequality, lower numbers mean less inequality)

-Venezuelans have access to free and universal healthcare

-Access to quality education (at all levels) is guaranteed for all

-Food is deemed affordable

From 2006 to 2011, Venezuela moved up 7 spots in the United Nations' Human Development Index , to 73 out of 187 countries

ETC.

[mecherosegarden]

2. It seems that all of that has been lost.

We are becoming one of the poorest country on the region. There are not medicines in the hospitals. There is not food in the supermarkets to the point that the regimen is going to issue "cards" so people can buy food and not what they want to buy but what they are going to be allowed to buy. Meanwhile, they get a stamp on their hand so they can get inside the supermarkets to buy whatever is available right now. They do have education but jobs are not being paid. The General of the army , who is in charge of the Venezuelan army, is Cuban, and more Cuban troops are arriving in Venezuela to defend thw wonderful legacy of Chavez: Poverty, insecurity, lack of medicine, lack of freedom!

This is a picture of what is happening in Venezuela. And this is everywhere, and almost everyday.

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