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Now it is fair - no rich, no middle class either. Everyone is equally poor and depressed.
It is true that Venezuela's middle class is going to hell in a hand basket, but the rich... well...
"Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, the late president's second-oldest daughter, holds assets in American and Andorran banks totaling almost $4.2billion, Diario las Americas reports."
"Alejandro Andrade, who served as Venezuela’s treasury minister from 2007 to 2010 and was reportedly a close associate of Chavez, was discovered to have $11.2billion in his name sitting in HSBC accounts in Switzerland, according to documents leaked by whistleblower Hervé Falciani."
It is true that Venezuela's middle class is going to hell in a hand basket, but the rich... well...
"Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, the late president's second-oldest daughter, holds assets in American and Andorran banks totaling almost $4.2billion, Diario las Americas reports."
"Alejandro Andrade, who served as Venezuela’s treasury minister from 2007 to 2010 and was reportedly a close associate of Chavez, was discovered to have $11.2billion in his name sitting in HSBC accounts in Switzerland, according to documents leaked by whistleblower Hervé Falciani."
In Latin America it doesn't matter who is president. They make themselves and his friends richer
The situation was horrible in Venezuela before Chavez was elected. People seem to forget that. However what did Chavez do? Sure he threw some bones to the poor people but his friends are filthy rich now with homes in Miami, NY and Europe. The level of corruption is the same, the only thing that changed is that wealth was transferred from one party to another.
I also find it funny how Venezuelans cross the border to buy groceries in Colombia but they go back to Venezuela because they don't want to lose their jobs or their benefits. Obviously the situation can't be that bad if they are going back to Venezuela. They only want to move to the US because the US is a rich country, not because it is not socialist, otherwise they would be moving in droves to Colombia.
Last edited by Sugah Ray; 10-16-2016 at 11:10 AM..
Lose their jobs and benefits? What jobs and what benefits might those be?
They are more likely returning because they want food but also don't want themselves or their children to live on the streets of the other countries. Also they do not want to leave their family. They also still love their country and want to stay to try to help it out of this disaster and be there to help rebuild it.
The problem however is that it maybe too late to rebuild it. It will take decades to undue to damage that Chavez and company have wrought. It's not just the economy that has to be rebuilt but also the complete political structure which runs from it's democratic institutions, eradication of corruption, the rule of law, riding the country of it's criminal cartels, grotesque socio/economic inequality, and violence.
All of the above will help rebuilt the democratic foundations which be necessary to also rebuild the entire social, health, and education systems.
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