Baloney - poverty has shot up since this thug got his hands on the oil. His oil benefits a few cronies on the ground and most of the billions are in Cayman island banks or safe with fidel who's suddenly gotten a bunch of billions no one knows how he managed to get. There are gonna be some big news stories out there coming soon about chavez's massive oil ripoff. By their results do you judge them and right now, despite record-high oil prices, venezuela's poor are poorer than ever.
Do you have any links for this?
The reason I made my post is that I understand that Chavez has had more social programs than the opposition. In fact when the coup took place virtually all his social programs were immediately shut down. The schools, the medicals centres, the free food for children in the schools.
I would be interested in seeing some facts and statistics about Venezeula if you have any.