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7. Chile is now Venezuela? Pinochet is now Maduro?

Fri Aug 10, 2018, 11:03 AM

Aug 2018

Under Pinochet, 95% of the population didn't live in poverty the way that Venezuelans live currently under Chavismo.

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Venezuela really couldn't get any worse then it is now. EX500rider Aug 2018 #2

You really think that? Farmer-Rick Aug 2018 #4

Chile is now Venezuela? Pinochet is now Maduro? GatoGordo Aug 2018 #7

That's fake news Farmer-Rick Aug 2018 #9

You get your information on Venezuela... from comedy programming? GatoGordo Aug 2018 #10

And yet it did: EX500rider Aug 2018 #12

You get your info on Venezuela from where? GatoGordo Aug 2018 #3

The same place you get your propaganda Farmer-Rick Aug 2018 #5

So you don't have a source for your information. You have rhetoric. GatoGordo Aug 2018 #6

Check out Democracy Now. Farmer-Rick Aug 2018 #8

You get your information from comedy bits? GatoGordo Aug 2018 #11