AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic

[gambit]

Western media is just beyond a joke now.

Hey, buddy...That Western media article just made an oblique jab at China with all those skyscrapers in Shanghai, Beijing, etc., while so much of China is in poverty.

 

[UnChosen]

Hey, buddy...That Western media article just made an oblique jab at China with all those skyscrapers in Shanghai, Beijing, etc., while so much of China is in poverty.

It is also a jab at the US and many other countries in the world.

 

[PeaceGen]

AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers

By Jim Naureckas

March 07, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "FAIR" --- One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death comes from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson (3/5/13):

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.

That's right: Chavez squandered his nation's oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world's tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?

Souce: NACLA's Keane Bhatt

In case you're curious about what kind of results this kooky agenda had, here's a chart (NACLA, 10/8/12) based on World Bank poverty stats–showing the proportion of Venezuelans living on less than $2 a day falling from 35 percent to 13 percent over three years. (For comparison purposes, there's a similar stat for Brazil, which made substantial but less dramatic progress against poverty over the same time period.)

Of course, during this time, the number of Venezuelans living in the world's tallest building went from 0 percent to 0 percent, while the number of copies of the Mona Lisa remained flat, at none. So you have to say that Chavez's presidency was overall pretty disappointing–at least by AP's standards.

AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers

LOL. ROFL

No-body should mess with Venezuela or with Chavez' shrine.

Chavez was a SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT TO DO WITH OIL PROFITS.

If the next Venezualan government follows in Chavez' foodsteps, they're on my friends-and-protection list!
I MEAN THAT, GREEDY BANKER PIGS

 

[Hasbara Buster]

I never know whether you are serious or not.

 

[jandk]

skyscrapers are necessary for poverty alleviation. .. the hungry poor people will not have the energy to go all the way up the building and die on the way, hence alleviating poverty completely.