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America gave her force-fed austerity. Government serves business and privileged elites. Bolivarianism helps everyone.
For Rosa and other immigrants, Venezuela resembles paradise. It has Latin America's lowest inequality level. Media scoundrels don't explain.
Bolivarianism benefits get swept under the rug. Venezuelans love Chavez for good reason. From 1980 through 1998, personal income fell 14%. Under Chavez, it's risen impressively.
Venezuela's most disadvantaged are better off than earlier times in their life. TimesSpeak claims otherwise.
"He used price controls to make food affordable," it said. It "contributed to shortages in basic goods. He created a popular program of neighborhood clinics often staffed by Cuban doctors, but hospitals frequently lack basic equipment."
On August 20, 2012, Venezuela Analysis headlined "Chavez Opens Two New Hospitals," saying:
Doing so followed another earlier in the year. They're "high tech medical facilities." They're state-of-the-art. They're "true hospitals of the twenty-first century."
In Petare, Miranda state alone, Ana Francisca Perez de Leon II Hospital serves about "one million people."
They'll benefit from "an intensive care unit, an emergency room, a surgery wing, a government pharmacy, a blood bank, a dentistry unit and classrooms for medical students, as well as many other services."
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