I wonder if the completely snookered folks like you can even at least appreciate what Chavez brought to Venezuela when he first came to elected power? The astounding advancements in literacy, education, and higher education, a legacy of 2 new Universities that are now the largest in the country. It places 2nd in Latin America and 5th in the world with the greatest proportions of university students. Poverty being reduced from 70.8% (1996) to 21% (2010). Extreme poverty reduced from 40% (1996) to a very low level of 7.3% (2010).
I could go on.
Do you actually believe that the powerful moneyed establishment simply stood by and did nothing when such a populist Socialist engaged in such massive redistribution of wealth and management? That they just sat by and watched their investments being taken over that were generating nice profits within the previous draconian yes-men government?..especially watching Chavez become a kind of beacon to the rest of South America?
They used speculation and black market to start to destroy the bolivar even before the oil price suspicious plummet. They used sabotage of the infrastructure like the electrical grid. Dumping food and daily household products to keep them off the retail markets. Disinformation in right wing media. It was a multilevel, manifold and vicious like we have never seen before.
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/the-us-covert-war-on-venezuela-in-2015/
Did Chavez and Murado double down stubbornly and refuse to capitulate? To the detriment of the economy? Probably. But PLEASE, don't be so naive as to think that the US and other nation's financial oligarchy would not covertly, and overtly, work to isolate, impoverish, and destabilize Venezuela ever since Chavez gained power.
If Sanders ever does get elected, I hope you are not the pushover you seem to be because he will also be attacked on all fronts relentlessly. And it will be important not to believe the first thing you hear by the corporate owned media, whose ownership will no doubt feel threatened.
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