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The only way a Socialist government can function is with vast mineral wealth to sustain the machine. You can't touch Venezuela in terms of natural resources.
So the question remains... why are they a fucking shithole?
How can so many people actually support Chavez? He has billions of dollars at his disposal from the nationalized oil company, yet he can't even make his much-touted social programs a reality. How do people not question that?
I lived in VE, from my point of view:
In the past it was rich landowners vs the poor underclass.
Now it is rich capitalist pig business owners and people who work for a living vs everyone else who sucks chavez's cancerous teat.
Somewhere I have video of hundreds of people "slash and burning" land next to a Toyota dealership. Chavez allows "his people" to take over and develop any unused land for purposes of bettering the Bolivarian Socialist State of Chavezlandia.
Pray for cancer, pray for lead, pray for anything but him being in power 6 more years.