RIP Hugo Chavez
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- 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
- CALLES0
Sean Penn Mourns Death Of Hugo Chavez: 'I Lost A Friend'
- ZOOP0
Meanwhile in Cuba...
"This operation was not a success, the report said, adding that the ongoing infection disrupted scar formation between the colon and the rectum, and his abdomen filled with feces, causing another case of peritonitis."
"During a second operation, doctors clean and drained the affected area and created an artificial anus, the report said."
That was '07 Castro is one tough old goat!
Oh, and punches for Chavez, rapid-fire body blows like a heavy bag, in the morgue. He won't care and it won't show at the funeral. It's probably already happened. ツ
- oey0
i need more info graphics!
- hotroddy0
I'm an exiled Venezuelan. And this is why Hugo Chavez will not be missed:
- dbloc0
- Sean Penndejo.ernexbcn
- lol @ penndejooey
- < LOLmoldero
- <<hahaHijoDMaite
- Ambushstudio0
Valiste verga culero
- i_monk0
So why do people hate him? And love him?
- polarizingutopian
- media, because he didnt do what our oil companies wanted him to domoldero
- Besides that he was megalomaniac, sorta like Donald Trump.utopian
- and he kept his country under developeddoesnotexist
- lowimpakt0
@hotroddy - not to belittle that article but those could be accusations laid against almost any politician around the world.
a politician that is broadly accepted as non-hypocritical, honest 100% of the time is VERY rare.
also, I've heard lots of people come out is support of chavez but not question his support for Gaddafi or Assad.
what's up with that?
- hotroddy0
@lowimpact - I understand it's hard to put into context but I don't know politicians (who aren't dictators) whom have nationalized private companies, expropriated private property, shut radio stations and tv stations critical to him, and imprisoned politicians who have been vocal against him.
All the meanwhile have whipped out the middle class, ruined the venezuelan economy, and allowed Caracas to be the most insecure, violent, and expensive city to live in the world.
- oey0
One of my best friends is from Venezuela, portuguese but born and raised over there.
He hates him so to speak.
He says he did some good things but that it had to be like that, specially if they have oil and are supposed to have money in some sort of way.But he loves to go there, but when he goes he comes a bit sad with the situation.
With human rights and freedom.
Press freedom, speaking freedom and so on.
The poverty, violence and other bad things.
He's totally left wing, liberal, traces of anarchism so to say.
Against violence and for him Chavez was nothing but a dictator.He saw him with different eyes in the past, before a certain moment , his revolutionary vision and whatever, but that he came to power he became nothing else like the others.
Dictator but nothing to do with some figures in History, don't get me wrong here.
I have another friend, Venezuelan, and he defended some of the good measures from Chavez, but he would understand why this happened.
He says that despite your, Venezuelan people, views now is a time for reflexion more than anything.
Not looking into the differences.
- 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.
- ukit20
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