You think that's the answer to their problems? More Ollie North's selling arms to Iran and drug running to pay goons to kill more Latin Americans?
That's your answer?
The PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA have chosen the Chavez-Maduro administration, time and again. And they've also rated their own country FIFTH IN THE WORLD on their own sense of well-being and future prospects (in the latest Gallup Well-being poll).
They must know things that you are not saying.
The black holes in YOUR assessment of Venezuela are all the reasons WHY the people of Venezuela voted, time and again, for Chavez, recently threw out all but four of the rightwing governors, and voted (though by a much closer margin than Chavez) for Chavez's VP, Nicolas Maduro. (And stop with the juvenile "Manuro." It's a stupid, childish joke.)
The Chavez-Maduro government has many remarkable achievements that comprise the reasons why Venezuelans have voted for them. These include the REDUCTION in inflation from pre-Chavez, astronomic levels. Pre-Chavez inflation peaked at 99.99%!. It's no wonder that the people of Venezuela prefer Chavez policies. And on many other issues--access to health care, access to higher education, access to the public airwaves, high employment rates with good wages and benefits, pensions for all (including mothers, housewives and street vendors), better oil contracts with the multinationals with more funds going to Venezuelan social programs, much more community involvement in the spending of that money, high economic growth rates, access to credit, help for small businesses and co-ops, fair taxation, strong banking regulation, and more--Chavez government policies have been SUCCESSFUL and that is why Venezuelans have voted for them.
No, the Chavez-Maduro government hasn't solved every problem. Yes, they have solved MANY problems. THAT is why they are in office. That is why people vote for them. The prior rightwng and "neo-liberal" (U.S.-friendly) governments did NOT solve problems like acute poverty, acute lack of health care and acute lack of educational opportunity. They couldn't have cared less about the gravest problems in the country. They served the rich oil elite and MADE problems--horrible problems--for everybody else, including murdering hundreds of poor protestors.
You think U.S./Wall Street ideas and U.S.A.I.D.-supported candidates would be better for Venezuela? You think rule by Exxon Mobil, Chevron and the CIA would be better for Venezuela?
Right. Maybe Venezuela should be like Colombia and Honduras, U.S. client states where thousands of labor leaders, teachers, community activists, human rights workers, peasant leaders and other advocates of the poor, journalists and political leftists, have been murdered--by the U.S. supported militaries and their closely tied rightwing death squads. Ollie North's kind of countries.
Your badmouthing of Venezuela doesn't reflect reality. And your alternative is...what? Malfeasance by the rich? 99.99% inflation? No health care for the poor? No higher education for the poor? High infant mortality rate? Poor wages, no unions, no housing, no shoes to put on their children's feet, no say in anything? The banksters ripping everybody off? Privatization of everything, costing the poor more than their pittance wages, for water, for electricity, for transportation, for living itself, and slaughter of the poor if they object?
That's what they had before Chavez. You want them to return to that? To rule by the oblivious rich and their U.S. corporate pals?
It seems that you truly do want this to happen to Venezuela: Ollie North's wet dream.
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