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Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona by boomboomsubban on Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:34PM (#15054548)
Poverty rate, wealth inequality, corruption, violent unrest. Admittedly, 2015 is the last year data seems available for, and pre-Chavez years get very little coverage online. Either way, you can't just point at the problems and say socialism is to blame.
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Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona by jose_zap on Saturday August 19, 2017 @02:08PM (#15054728)
Clearly, you haven't lived in Venezuela. The current crisis cannot be compared to anything in the last 60 years.

I was born in the middle of a crisis, but never lacked anything important. Nowadays I can say with certainty that my family is poorer than when I was a kid.

Chavez left a country with a deeply broken economy before he died.

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