That’s sort of where I am. He was a very charismatic leader who truly loved his people. It’s a shame that the political landscape made him an enemy to the US.
52% of Venezuelans voted for opposition parties in 2010, and yet he still won. Don’t you find it strange that thousands of Chinese workers start showing up a few months before the elections?
The man was worth over $1 billion by the time of his death. He robbed his own people. All he had to do was sweet talk them constantly, and give them a crumb of a crumb.
It may actually be considerably more than a billion, somewhere between one and two- it may surprise you to know that an autocrat who was in complete control of his country may not have been very open with his financial figures.
The second link doesn’t really negate the stuff in the first, but if we’re playing ping-pong:
Although the degree to which this is done to the American people isn’t as obvious or transperant to that of what Chavez did, its being done with the same amount of ferocity. the only diffrence is that we are told and spoon fed the illusion of freedom and the bullshit that is “Democracy”.