For those of us who've never starved in a shantytown in the hills above Caracas, or lost an infant at birth it's easy to say Chavez is a disaster for Venezuela's economy. Like the old way was working so well.
How would you like to be hopeless and know that the rich weren't economically rewarded because they invented something or even DID something creative with their lives but instead this vast wealth came from generations of ownership.Of course those acquisitions coming from the gun of Euro-immigrants being aimed at your ancestors heads. who TRULY "owns" the land?
You know the deal American Indians got from the settlers in America? Well it's the same deal native South American's got. Except the Mestizo' and pardo's don't own casino's. So they live in squaller while international stock holders get the benefit of outsized earnings tied to the theft of a nation's resources. Sweet deal.
How would you like to be hopeless and know that the rich weren't economically rewarded because they invented something or even DID something creative with their lives but instead this vast wealth came from generations of ownership.Of course those acquisitions coming from the gun of Euro-immigrants being aimed at your ancestors heads. who TRULY "owns" the land?
You know the deal American Indians got from the settlers in America? Well it's the same deal native South American's got. Except the Mestizo' and pardo's don't own casino's. So they live in squaller while international stock holders get the benefit of outsized earnings tied to the theft of a nation's resources. Sweet deal.