Street Survival (Chavez and his Socialist Paradise)

El Universal ^ | 3/4/2006 | El Universal

[Dallas59]

Official numbers are inconsistent with overwhelming reality.

Over the last few years, indigence has become an oversized scourge.

In almost all avenues in the capital city, hundred Venezuelans beg for a loaf of bread and sleep on the outside, in streets, on sidewalks or under bridges. According to world experts in extreme poverty, beggary is a widespread phenomenon and the state is most accountable for it, as it "must ensure education, information, and health care, and deal with indigence and poverty."

The Venezuelan state is deep in debt to thousand citizens who survive on what they can find in dumps, sewages or corners.

A census conducted in 2004 by Caracas Mayoralty found about 1,700 beggars in the capital city. It seems that they are more. Therefore, the numbers are hardly reliable. The Mayoralty argues that identification of homeless is not easy due precisely to their wandering condition.

[Dallas59]

Chavez buys arms, sells gas to the poor of America with cars, rants about Bush, while his own starve in the streets...

[xcamel]

"Nuevo Cubano"

[Tijeras_Slim]

Fruits of Marxism, as predictable as the sun coming up.

[spanalot]

How long will it take for genocide to follow.

http://www.lietuvos.net/istorija/communism/

[Tijeras_Slim]

It was come after hyperinflation destroys the middle class, and all resources are confiscated from their producers.

[trek]

T-Shirt time:

Either of the last 2 pictures with this caption:

I Voted For Communism and All I Got was this Cardboard Box and a Bottle of Glue.

[rottndog]

Venezuela--no, that can't be right. Rampant homelessness and poverty can only happen in a capitalist country run by Ronald Reagan. This must be fascist right wing propaganda!

[cpdiii]

Fruits of Marxism, as predictable as the sun coming up.

What we are seeing is Zimbabwe Part II. I lived in Venezuela in the 70s. A lovely country with good people was the Venezuela before Chavez. However, it did suffer from great corruption inside the government. Chavez was elected the first time as an expression of rage against the corruption in Caracas. He was not elected the second time. That election was stolen despite what that POS "Jimma" Carter said. Chavez will never leave office via the elections. He rigged the last one and will rig the next one. He will only leave via a revolution. He is also giving support and aid and sanctuary to the FARC guerrillas operation in Columbia. FARC is actually a communist rebel group that finances its movement via the narco trade. I could see the possibility of war in the future between Columbia and Venezuela. What Chavez is doing with FARC is truly an overt act of war against Columbia. A lovely country is in for some hard hard times and a lot of death. It is not going to be pretty.

[adorno]

In almost all avenues in the capital city, hundred Venezuelans beg for a loaf of bread and sleep on the outside, in streets, on sidewalks or under bridges. According to world experts in extreme poverty, beggary is a widespread phenomenon and the state is most accountable for it, as it "must ensure education, information, and health care, and deal with indigence and poverty."

Sheehan and Belafonte and Jimmy Carter were said to be deeply disturbed by those reports of poverty in Venezuala. They blamed it all on Bush and America.