Venezuela has never been "the wealthiest country" of South America [View all]

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That's just the new post-truth argument that the US mythomaniac press has taken out of its ignorant butt to deceive even more ignorant people.

In the 1950s, Venezuela already had some of the largest slums of the continent. Petare was everywhere in the media as a symbol of inequality and poverty in Latin America.

Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay are the three wealthiest nations of South America since the 19th century. That hasn't changed and one just has to compare literacy rate, child mortality, and other social indicators to realize that.

That's basic history.