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AloeVera

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64. If VZ was doing so great, why was Chavismo accepted and championed by its people?

Reply to Callie1979 (Reply #62)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:28 PM

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If you were to look beyond the right-wing talking points that you seem to have espoused and swallowed whole, you would then know that VZ was not doing great at all prior to Chavez. Neither economically nor democratically.

Your "once prosperous" Venezuela had a poverty rate of close to 50% by the end of the '80s, and a staggering 70% by 1995 - well before Chavez, who managed to cut this in half if you are interested in facts. Clearly all that wealth was not distributed equally.

Is this what you meant by "once prosperous"?

I could go on, but I have a feeling it won't do any good.

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