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EX500rider

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11. Lets see...
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 04:23 PM
Jan 2016

I see you stopped at 2010 for poverty levels, don't blame you...

Venezuela’s poverty rate rose to 32 percent at the end of last year from a record low 25 percent in 2012, according to the National Statistics Institute, or INE. That represents an additional 1.8 million people who live in families with less in income than 6,648 bolivars ($87 at the black market rate) a month.
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/08/02/venezuelas-increasing-inflation-shortages-leave-poor-doubting-maduro

Education?
18 Venezuelan universities on brink of shutdown as economic crisis enters the classroom
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/10/27/18-venezuelan-universities-on-brink-shutdown-as-crisis-enters-classroom/

"They used speculation and black market to start to destroy the bolivar."
No the Venezuelan govt did that with over printing and bad currency controls.

".....even before the oil price suspicious plummet."
Nothing suspicious about it, US fracking help caused a glut, Saudi doesn't want to cut production to mess with Iran & US fracking.

"They used sabotage of the infrastructure like the electrical grid
."
Venezuelan govt again responsible for not upgrading and expanding capacity, not "sabotage" lol

"Dumping food and daily household products to keep them off the retail markets."
Only thing keeping products off the market are price controls coupled with currency controls and rampant inflation.

"Disinformation in right wing media."
Venz. govt took over or closed most opposition in the press, getting a bad score of "NOT FREE" from Freedom House's press rankings. Human Rights Watch said that during "the leadership of President Chávez and now President Maduro, the accumulation of power in the executive branch and the erosion of human rights guarantees have enabled the government to intimidate, censor, and prosecute its critics" and reported that broadcasters may be censored if they criticize the government."
Reporters Without Borders said that the media in Venezuela is "almost entirely dominated by the government and its obligatory announcements, called cadenas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Venezuela
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/venezuela

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