Reader comments are listed below. Comments are currently closed and new comments are no longer being accepted. I was in Medellin last November. It is not quite a First World City, but it is not terribly far removed. Colombia does a lot better than Venezuela, perhaps because the economy is more diversified.
Some of it is diversified in the bad way of trafficking in cocaine, but most of it is diversification in the good way of having many crops and industries to develop, and having a business culture. Venezuela got locked into a petroleum economy. In Latin America petroleum is a government-owned commodity, so wealth from oil does not usually flow down to the people. It is used to reinforce the government bureaucracies. Then, when, the price goes down, the country suffers.
Venezuela is an especially degenerate government tied to dictatorship and oil. I am sure the average Venezuelan is as fine a person as any other, but the people are handcuffed by their degenerate Commie government.
Like in Cuba many poor venezuelans women must now prostitute themselves to feed their family. Castrism and chavism are really great step forward for women's liberation.
They should thank the progressist left all over the world wich has done so much to help them find this marvellous alternative socialist way of living.
