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Horrific: Jose Villarroel waits for hours in an emergency operating room at Luis Razetti Hospital in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, in April

Horrific: Jose Villarroel waits for hours in an emergency operating room at Luis Razetti Hospital in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, in April

 

Life on hold: Julio Rafael Parucho, who suffered a serious head injury, and has had to wait a year for a follow-up operation because of a shortage of doctors in Puerto la Cruz

Life on hold: Julio Rafael Parucho, who suffered a serious head injury, and has had to wait a year for a follow-up operation because of a shortage of doctors in Puerto la Cruz


No beds: Nicolas Espinoza's daughter sleeps in the children's cancer ward at Luis Razetti Hospital

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Even as recently as 2013, Salon magazine was proclaiming the virtue of Chavez and his brand of socialism calling it an "economic miracle."

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/0...zs_economic_miracle/

I found this statement poignant:

"When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics. When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela’s did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter – and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore. It suddenly looks like a threat to the corporate capitalism, especially when said country has valuable oil resources that global powerhouses like the United States rely on."

Venezuela not so much cratered, rather fell off a cliff.

 

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OldSalt posted:

Even as recently as 2013, Salon magazine was proclaiming the virtue of Chavez and his brand of socialism calling it an "economic miracle."

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/0...zs_economic_miracle/

I found this statement poignant:

"When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics. When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela’s did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter – and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore. It suddenly looks like a threat to the corporate capitalism, especially when said country has valuable oil resources that global powerhouses like the United States rely on."

Venezuela not so much cratered, rather fell off a cliff.

 

Venezuela used to be the darling of the glitterati, the chattering class and leftists, in general,  Now, one hears less than crickets chirping from the bunch of them on the subject.

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