Chavez vs. Fidelito

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=8795

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> In a country of 25 million, 1.4 million learned to read and write within
> a year and a half, while three million Venezuelans previously excluded
> from education due to poverty enrolled in the education system. Seventy
> percent of the population now enjoys access to free health care while 45
> percent of the people receive subsidized food via cooperatives, special
> food programs and government distribution centers.
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All this and, as far as I know, there is little, if any, political
repression, not even really economic "repression" (if you could call
taking resources away from corporations "repression").

What Thomas Friedman would achieve in 50 years, this guy achieves in 5.

The hope of the world in the next century lies in South America.