Venezuela: The 21st Century Socialist Country?

Question

I am currently doing a research paper based upon Venezuela under the Chavez administration. I came across some articles on the Internet that mentioned that the middle class has been receiving the worst treatment. One of the articles I had found on the BBC News stated that Chavez has provided medical care to poor neighbors. However, these doctors are from Cuba. Some argue that his outsourcing has decreased the use of Venezuelan clinics and many Venezuelan doctors are out of jobs also it makes it harder for students in medical programs to complete required one year service at medical facilities.
In addition, I had recently view a documentation that focused on the 2006 election between Hugo Chavez and Manuel Morales. The documentation did not explain why Chavez has not tried to diversify the Venezuelan economy or why continuing to trade with the US when Chavez wants to impose a Pan Latin America and Caribbean trade without the US. I thought Chavez was anti-American?

Does anyone know of Venezuelan websites or blogs that I can go to receive more information Venezuela's movement towards socialism?

Also, I have heard Venezuelan university students have also been embroiled in the political climate. I think there was a recent protest by college student against the Chavez administration. Is Chavez reducing funding to these institutions? Limiting their freedom of speech? Imposing such restricting upon these people wouldn't it just lead them to leave the country and seeking jobs and education outside of Venezuela causing educational and capital flight?

Answer 1

Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.

Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).

Actual economics is the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.

Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.

Anti-democracy republicanism is the psychology of imaginary parents, and false government.

Answer 2

Comparing the now mortgage bankrupt American middle class to mean the same as a South American petite bourgeois (aka Small-time Gangsters) undermines your statement/question. Chavez seems to be one of the first SA leader that denies strong family lines to European ancestry, he is popular because he rose from the people he knows very well, the natural rural poor of the countryside. Venezuela has been governed by a cabal of elitist families just like the US has with its old family stock from New England.(George W.Bush is one recent example) The Cuban medical staff is likely highly trained and motivated to be ranked amongst the best in the world. BTW, national oil based governments and their economies throughout the world are the least sophisticated because those in charge generally do not feel the pain to diversify when revenues or royalties checks keep coming in the mail.

Answer 3

Venezuela is not seizing assets YET.

But they are rising taxes to such high levels that most business can't afford so they close.
Add to this confrontative speeches against business/free enterprise.

So little is invested in Venezuela, many want to get out.

Venezuela is now entirely dependent on oil prices. Before they had a bit of other exports, now then dont.

When oil prices fall (be it in 5, 10, 15, 25 years, whatever), Venezuela will sink into deep, deep poverty, as they wont have money to pay for goods, and they will get no loans for being considered an unstable country. Insults to the US, World Bank, IMF, wont help them get loans either.

So, if oil price ever gets down, venezuela will have to give away their oil reserves in order to get loans to survive.

Answer 4

When your Chevez took away you ten leading freedoms for the people, he went down the drain the same way Cuba did.