From Aljazeera
''The facts are stark. Venezuela holds what is now recognised as the
largest oil reserves on the planet - even larger than Saudi Arabia's.
But until recently this was an energy Holy Grail run by the usual tiny,
arrogant, rapacious elite, and where the masses had no possibility of
decent education, decent housing or a decent salary.
The record of Chavismo is a story of how to progressively
horizontalise a vertical society. Chavismo channels no less than 43 per
cent of the state budget to an array of social policies.
Unemployment went down from over 20 per cent to less than 7 per cent.
No less than 22 public universities were built in the past 10 years.
The number of teachers went from 65,000 to 350,000. Illiteracy has been
eradicated. There is an ongoing agrarian reform - still a dream in most
South American latitudes.''
''The ruling class obviously was not amused''
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