Hugo Chavez faces strengthening opposition in Venezuela
Made Popular Jun 30 2008
Hugo Chavez is a larger-than-life figure In Venezuela. He has used the country’s oil wealth to defy the US and EU. He has made friends with Iran and Cuba, two countries which are anti-US. His popularity at home is not due to these factors alone....
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Inflation here is bad, but it is NOT 35%, and it is LOWER than all the previous governments, when it was around 46%.
The crime in Caracas is pretty high, it is also a serious problem, one that goes back decades. Unfortunately one can’t change the world in a day, or even a decade, and I think there are few people here who blame Chavez for the crime. Most of the opposition are simply big business and the upper classes. Perhaps you should get your sources from somewhere else apart from big business newspapers, in order to better understand what is going on here.