A great man , an enemy of slavery and true freedom fighter , has passed on.
Rip , el comandante.
Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are tools also. I'll be glad when they're off the air but not glad when they're dead.
So little humanity is being shown in P&N today. Not surprising considering the decreasing quality of posters in here as of the last couple years.
Where in my statement did I say they should let foreigners come in and establish their government. I said that the upper and middle class would rather elect a president than have dictator that rigs elections in his favor.
It's a trick. Get an axe.
So much for Cuban medicine being superior to American...
Wich meedle class ?
In 1996 70% where under poverty level under the rule
of the 5% that where the upper class , the meddle class
accounted for 20% at the time.
Keep you facts straight before posting utter lies.
The US don't kill people with cancer....we're not Russian.
Carracas has been reduced to a gutted, festering shithole over the last two decades when, as late as the mid 80s, it was seen as a rather cosmopolitan city--a jewel in South America, actually.
Chavez was an utter piece of shit. You should move to Carracas since you prefer to schlob the knob of an incompetent and blathering communist swine.
According to The Washington Post, citing statistics from the United Nations, poverty in Venezuela stood at 28% in 2008,[260] down from 55.44% in 1998 before Chávez got into office.[261] Economist Mark Weisbrot found that, "During the ... economic expansion, the poverty rate [was] cut by more than half, from 54 percent of households in the first half of 2003 to 26 percent at the end of 2008. Extreme poverty has fallen even more, by 72 percent. These poverty rates measure only cash income, and does take into account increased access to health care or education."[247][262]
Between 1998 and 2006 malnutrition related deaths fell by 50%.[247][270] In October 2009, the Executive Director of the National Institute of Nutrition (INN) Marilyn Di Luca reported that the average daily caloric intake of the Venezuelan people had reached 2790 calories, and that malnutrition had fallen from 21% in 1998 to 6%.[271]
Wich meedle class ?
In 1996 70% where under poverty level under the rule
of the 5% that where the upper class , the meddle class
accounted for 20% at the time.
Keep you facts straight before posting utter lies.
US kills even its own soldiers with depleted uranium, let alone Iraqi civilians.
Make it happen Comrade. Be a leader not a follower.The day will come when the rest of you wake up and call for justice for the Worker.
I'll see your DU munitions (Russia has/uses these too BTW) and raise with Chernobyl
Too late.... The rabid and rather vapid ideologues have pounced on it.Guess I should have posted this in the Debate forum where an adult discussion could take place. Feel free to move this mods.