RIP Hugo Chavez
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- ZOOP0
He was good for a laugh when he talked about Bush. The state run oil industry should make the appointment of a new leader interesting.
- eoin0
Dazzlingly illuminating ... before you shape and share your opinion on Chavez, you must watch this.
- maquito0
I have a good friend from Venezuela.
I asked him once why did chavez win so much elections for 20 years in a row... something like "tell me the real thing"...His answer was "Because his supporters are those who don't know how to read, how to write, and are completely useless for the nation. The rest of 'us', had to leave Venezuela cause he was practically stealing our income to give it away to that supporters".
Pretty cool way to generate that indicators huh...
- fadein110
rich don't like losing shit
- Llyod0
I want to assfuck his corpse.
- sine0
it's not just about the "rich losing out".
his case (and Venezuela's) is an interesting one...
on the one hand he uplifted the lives of many (short-term), but created long-term problems for industry and business/economy.- the world (generalized) aren't interested in that model as far as investment goes.sine
- Llyod0
he was a fucking neo commie pos
- pr20
Chavez was a complex figure. A few months ago i worked with a soundman who just emigrated from Venezuela - he said you KNOW that every year you will get robbed at least once (sometimes including being kidnapped). Chavez was for equality but if you ever lived in socialism (i have) you know that the dream never matches the reality. People deep down are scumbags who will take advantage of the system or each other to be just a bit better off. The really poor robbing the above-poor middle class is just an example of that. In that sense Chavez presented a very complex dilemma - to keep on fighting for what life should be (equality etc) or what it really is (as capitalism is trying to convince us): filled with one scumbag stubbing another scumbag in the back. That persistence to create a dream of a kind rather than settle on practicality of life is something to be admired in him.
- yes. great post. as idealogical as it is, it's just not sustainable.sine
- neither is capitalism as it turns us into animalspr2
- It wasn't a good idea even on paper, communism equalizes down and strips your dignity and - everyone loses.shaft
- I lived behind the Iron Curtain longer than pr2 (I'm older), I'd never want to go back there.shaft
- I tried both, would choose capitalism again. It's not easy but gives you opportunity. In Cuba you have none.shaft
- both of my parents lived under communism most of their life (including small amount of prosecution) and now having lived in US past 10 years the long for good old day...pr2
- ... lived in US past 10 years the long for good old day...pr2
- utopian0
I will personally miss gawking at his nappy ass hair and odd-shaped jug head.
RIP Hugo
- ernexbcn0
Venezuela with the biggest oil boom in its history (100 dollars a barrel) has the highest inflation of America.
When Chávez won in 1998 there were 4 thousand violent deaths in Venezuela, last year 21 thousand.
That's one bullshit revolution.
- did he kill them all by himself?GeorgesII
- no you idiot, but it shows the incapacity of his government, the right to life is in our constitutionernexbcn
- I'd love to see you grow up in a city that has 70 to 100 people dead every fucking weekendernexbcn
- by thugsernexbcn
- I don't think we go that high, but were close, this is one competition I rather loseGeorgesII
- Ernexbro, I understand you 100% as an expat myself, I know full well to go back home and see the decadence evolving, sad shitGeorgesII
- ernexbcn0
As always, it's insulting to read some very superficial comments about a country that most of you have never visited and have no fucking clue about how's life in a 3rd. world country like Venezuela where you don't know if you are going to be back safe at home every day you go to work.
I understand some liked the guy, but he managed to take a country with the biggest oil incomes of its history to the worst economic situation it has ever been.
Don't be another Sean Penn or Danny Glover, seriously.
- Weyland0
Rest in proletariat, you motherfucker
- CALLES0
Miami Celebrates
- GeorgesII0
So who's going to be president now,
how does the continuity of govnmt works in venezuela?
- ernexbcn0
President should be the president of the congress but they like always interpret the constitution as they see fit, so the guy in charge now is Maduro the former VP.
Constitution is pretty clear on that, and elections need to be held within 30 days from his death.
- lowimpakt0
ernexbcn - I'm trying to be objective on this but on what measure are you saying " the worst economic situation it has ever been"
I'm looking through some time-series data on Venezuela GDP, GNI etc http://databank.worldbank.org/da…
There is a broad decline and moderate growth between 1976 and 1986, steep declines in 1991, 1997.
The two worst years since the 1960's for growth were 1989 (-10.7%) and 2002 (-10.5%). 2004 saw the most growth at anytime since 1960 - again followed by a flow decline but with growth returning between 2009 - 2011.
Fuel exports started to decline in 1983 and growing again in 1998 (although dropped off the chart in 2010). Ore and metal exports have been steady since 1960 but shot higher than ever in 2010
Since 1994 the highest year of interest rate were 1993 and 1998
external debt stocks increased massively between 1970 and 1989 but have been in decline since
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this is all fascinating. i'm hooked on boring data
- lowimpakt0
GNI (atlas method) is interesting