Reply #13: Nice try? [View All]

[Arepa_Power]

It is a very researchable FACT that poverty AND extreme poverty actually increased during his tenure...that is before Chavez had the numbers "revised" to reflect the "neoliberal" way of measuring poverty. http://www.ine.gov.ve page five social report.

Yes, yes, the famed "missions"

I have seen the food personally that Chavez distributes, and it is of sub standard quality. Frijoles y arroz con cucaracha anyone? Not to mention that the artifical price limits have caused huge food cost inflations throughout the regular markets. El Jefe is such a idiot that he caps the price of the coffee beans, and then does not account for the roasters to pass on the cost...so the roasters are forced to operate at a loss. What is his solution? Threaten the coffee roasters with nationalization. Brilliant.

Of course this will be dismissed outright, but one of my family members has worked in concert with one of the missions...and it is very common for a "sign here to support chavez and you get your food" type of action.

Here's a thought, go there and see the poor still standing on the streets, the insane increase in inflation due to the food "subsidies". Contrary to the information that the VIO puts out.

Chavez needs to stop giving the wealth of Venezuela away to support his vision of a South American socialist empire and start concentrating on his own country and its poor and crumbling infrastructure (like the ONLY highway to the airport that is shutdown). But of course...everything is the fault of the imperialists, chavistas even blame the garbage in the streets on the CIA.