Venezuela Opposition won’t win

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela Opposition won’t win
By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Monday, March 11 2013

FROM eating dog chow to the bread itself, the lower class masses in Venezuela would not vote for the Opposition parties in the next election to find a replacement for President Hugo Chavez who died last week Tuesday following a two-year battle with Cancer.

So says Anthropologist John Sorrillo, who said that prior to the late President Chavez taking leadership in Venezuela, 14 years ago, that oil rich country’s poor people ate dog chow as they “could not even get the crumbs of the bread to eat.”

Sorrillo, a Venezuelan-born who has called Trinidad his home for the past 30 years, hailed Chavez as a great leader whose ideologies came from liberator Simon Bolivar. Describing himself as a ‘Chavista’ (a die-hard supporter of Chavez), the anthropologist praised the leader for transforming the country and creating programmes to benefit the people.

Saying the people lost a hero, Chavez’ love for the masses was reflected at his funeral last Friday with thousands of people attending.

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http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,174670.html

[joelz]

1. maybe these poor folks missed the

ap story
and just don't know what they are missing out on.

Chavez invested Venezuela’s oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains were meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world’s tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/08/ap-chavez-made-meager-gai.html

[Judi Lynn]

3. They must be so humiliated! n/t

[Dawson Leery]

2. There is certainly a Bolivarian aspect to Chavez's economic philosophy.