Venezuelan leader warns of sabotage plans

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11. After reading your response, particularly

this : "Venezuela's economy is better than ours, btw, so much better that it has been suggested that maybe we should have consulted with the Chavez Government for advice to stop the continuing and impending disaster the solution for which we seem to believe is TAKE FROM THE POOR. Chavez was able to improve Ven's economy without robbing the poor and bailing out crooked banks."

I am moved to ask - have you ever looked at the economic situation in Venezuela? Leaving aside the pure ideology, using which you fail to respond to my specific points: inflation, devaluation of the currency, scarcity of basic articles in the stores, electric service that's unreliable, draining the national Petroleum company (PDVSA) of assets and appointing political cronies to run it (and not even going into plundering the national oil riches to support ideological movements abroad - Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua and, of course Cuba), on what facts do you base this hyperbolic assertion?

Ideology is fine, in its place. But while you are entitled to your beliefs, you are not entitled to your own facts. Please show me where I am mistaken in analyzing the present economic situation in Venezuela.