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Originally Posted by MattLarson
From your links, it looks as though Chavez is performing very poorly indeed.
Notice that Venezuela's improvement in HDI over the measured timespan is much lower than any other on the graph. In 1975, Venezuela was actually slightly better off than Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole. Venezuelan growth in HDI then essentially parallels the regional figures from the mid 80s through 1992.
Then, Venezuela begins to lag behind the other nations in the region in their HDI score.
Notice that there is no change in the slope of the curve between Chavez's election in 1999 and the end of the graph in 2005.
It seems that Chavez hasn't really accomplished much at all, and under his leadership the gap between the HDI in Venezuela and the HDI in the rest of the region is widening.
Hmmmm.
Matt |
The trend is still upward. And when you are working with close to the poorest country in latin america, you cant expect to see huge improvements in short periods of time. Did you look at the other source which goes into details that the HDI graph does not? And you should note that the period of decline (with respect to latin america/Caribbean) is during the period of corrupt lending institutions debt and Washington backed corporate policies.
The data from the other graph shows improvements in the things i mentioned, and more.
Like i said repeatedly, nobody is claiming that Chavez has brought utopia to Venezuela. Plenty of people are trying to claim he is a dictator destroying Venezuela. He is clearly not a dictator, and the stats show he is not destroying the countries economy, they show improvements in areas of education, health, and GDP.
Andrew