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"Venezuela is a state of huge oil wealth that was hitherto scarcely used to benefit the population. Now, for the first time in a country of over 25 million people, a functioning health service is being built. Seventeen million people have been given access to free healthcare for the first time in their lives. Illiteracy has been eliminated. Fifteen million people have been given access to food, medicines and other essential products at affordable prices. A quarter of a million eye operations have been financed to rescue people from blindness. These are extraordinary practical achievements."

This is the crap that the Left used to praise Castro early in his regime, while the SU was funding Castro. Now Cuba doesn't provide any decent education or health care, etc. The economy is a disaster except for European tourists and $$ sent from US Cubans. Once the price of oil drops, the same thing will happen in V.

Now, for the first time in a country of over 25 million people, a functioning health service is being built. Seventeen million people have been given access to free healthcare for the first time in their lives. Illiteracy has been eliminated. Fifteen million people have been given access to food, medicines and other essential products at affordable prices. A quarter of a million eye operations have been financed to rescue people from blindness. These are extraordinary practical achievements."

Sounds like that other socialist paradise Cuba! Give up freedom for universal literacy and health care!

As for the numbers, in a nation of 25 million, one-quarter million were going blind? Is there something in the water down there?