Reply #57: You are very judgemental...just because I don´t agree with your views

[Summermoondancer]

when you are sitting your comfortable butt in the US and making judgements while I am sitting IN Latin America telling you what it is actually like...just because you disagree with me doesn´t make my viewpoints not credible.

How are you any better than the same righties that you condemn? If you embark on the same stupid personal attacks that they do?

Before 1999 poverty rates were over 50% post 2001 they were 45% that is a mere 5% change not a 50% change that you alledge, in 2004 there was a situation that caused poverty rates to rise again in Venezuela...do you know by chance what it was? I do, but let´s see if you recall it.
In 2005 poverty rates fell to 43.7% which is a very long way from your allegation that it fell by 50%, what you mean is it fell below 50%.

Economic growth in Venezuela has been tied to the rise in oil prices, not because of Hugo Chavez...it is to be seen how this recession will affect Venezuela..and it will hit them as hard as anyone else.