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A comment on Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis. Parent comment

Re:Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricit... by stickfigure on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:25PM (#11308115)
I don't think you and the parent contradict each other. Venezuela has natural resources, favorable geography, a reasonably well-educated population, and (until recently) reasonably modern infrastructure. Many countries have fared far better with far less. The problem is management.
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Re:Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricit... by noir_lord on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:30PM (#11308896)
> The problem is management.

When isn't that true sadly.

> No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time

Churchill quoting one of his predecessors in his autobiography "Churchill by Himself".

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