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bvar22

(39,909 posts)
8. Irony impaired?
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 02:31 PM
Oct 2012

You can't see it, can you?

You don't dispute this:

[font size=3]"living standards of the majority of Venezuelans have dramatically improved under Chávez..., poverty has been cut in half and extreme poverty by 70%. And this measures only cash income. Millions have access to healthcare for the first time, and college enrolment has doubled, with free tuition for many students. Inequality has also been considerably reduced. By contrast, the two decades that preceded Chávez amount to one of the worst economic failures in Latin America..."
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And, yet, you use the emotionally charged language of an agenda driven, Talking Points ONLY low information partisan to insists that Chavez must LIE to present himself as a "Man of the People".
Like the DU contingent that insist that Chavez is a dictator despite the FACT that the elections in Venezuela are more open, transparent and verifiable than the opaque privatized elections in the USA.

Josh, the disconnect in your logic is a chasm that rivals the Grand Canyon.
It is laughable.
Chavez doesn't have to lie.
All he has to do is point to the above record that you don't dispute.
I wish the USA had a record near as good.


Venezuela belongs to the Venezuelans,
and all the social justice criteria indicates that they are on the right track.
Venezuela has open and transparent elections.
It is up to them.
When they are tired of Chavez, they will replace him.
It is none of our business,
nor is it the business of the IMF, the World Banks, The Colonial Conservatives,
or our 1% who no longer reap HUGE profits from Venezuelan resources.

VIVA Democracy!
I pray we get some here soon!



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