NationMaster - Discussion - Venezuela Profile

kenn perez 15th January 2005	can you please put the history of currency of the country of south america
pablo machado 15th January 2005	In your venezuelan entries, it says that despite a democratic goverment there's no fair chance for the opposition. Are you referring to before chavez, or after? It seems to me that this is very subjective point of view for a site that dedicates itself to such an objective matter as statistics.(doesn't matter if it's pro or anti government)
Jessica Sanchez 23rd May 2005	Hey i just wanted to say that i've always wanted to visit Venezuela. I want to see the beautiful places of Venezuela. Well i have this cousin that got married to a a girl from Venezuela and she has told me a lot of wonderful stuff about Venezuela. I think I'll have more fun down there than here in Michigan. Venezuela is one of the place that i really want to visit.
Jordan 27th May 2005	I like pickles, they are very good, and i bet people in venezuela do too!
Agustin 26th July 2005	A nation lacking political pluralism, minority representation, strong independent institutions and check and balances is not really much of a modern democracy. Venezuela's democracy had many problems prior to Chavez but even then it was a better example of a modern democracy. Chavez has shown no willingness to seek compromise. It is his way or no way. I am a Venezuelan from center left yet I have found many left wing people from outside Venezuela to be rather dogmatic and undemocratic. I wonder what they would say if in their countries they had the same lack of political representation that we have in Venezuela. As bad as the George W. Bush Administration is perceived just imagine not having a Senate with a filibuster or an independent Supreme Court or a trusting military while also been called unpatriotic, maggots, coupmonger and other like qualifiers by the head of government. Even if the last election is to be trusted, 40% of the people wanted him out. That is not a small minority yet we have no representation. Chavez is just another caudillo. It is his way or no way. Venezuela has many problems but Chavez is not the answer. As long as the Venezuelan people remain divided and Chavez continues to enmity and animosity instead of unity there can be no sustainable progress. My hope is that the hangover be not as bad as I forsee. Peace.
Ender 16th August 2005	Never in the history from Venezuela a president had arrived with the objective of improving the quality of life of the more needfuls. Ask it to the people of the districts, to the poor that have lived this history in own meat if they received so much resources for the health, manners or social development of other presidents. Perhaps the system is not perfect, but it is the better democratic period that has enjoyed Venezuela.
cienfuegos 22nd August 2005	What a load of crap. cuba running venezuelan intelligence? working with iran for nuke's? Sounds more like desperite excuses because you don't have any better. What's wrong with giving petro dollars to the poor. If the so called "educated" class want to go, go ahead, your free to, like in any democracy. Even the poor have the chance to have an education, but ofcourse it's understandable why de bourgoise in venezuela doesn't want this. It is a simple fact that chavez has the majority of the people behind him and the majority is poor, so if he has there wellbeing at heart then you couldn't blame him. The only way chavez will be gone if the US does the same to him as they did with salvador allende and other south-american leaders that didn't have US interests at heart. But we don't live in the 70's anymore and there is no soviet union anymore, there are no ties to al-qaeda to south-america so i wonder how the neo-conservatives are gonna pull this one off.
Alejandro 31st August 2005	Jorge, what are you talking about? You call yourself a Venezuelan and you call Venezuela the USA's Backyard? very nationalistic of you. Venezuela is not the backyard of any nation. Our ancestors didn't fight for our independance so that now we can go ahead and label ourselves as some other country's backyard. You can still achieve everything through hard work in Venezuela. That you decided to leave has nothing to do with Chavez. I live in England and I see the improvements he has made? What are you pissed about? That he is feeding the poor? teaching them how to read? Allowing them to get educated? that he is giving them free good health care? That kids get fed in public schools for free? Before Chavez millions of Venezuelan's didn't know how to read nor write. They could die for no access to health care. It was the presidents BEFORE Chavez that allowed the poverty level of Venezuela to get to what it is now. Or are you now going to say that before Chavez there were no slums nor ranchos in Venezuela? There is a fair chance opposition, but Venezuelans are no longer going to fall for the fake promisses from the opposition. The Venezuelan opposition made way too many mistakes and played with too many lives. They expect Venezuelans to want them back after everything they have done? There is more democracy in Venezuela than ever before. What bothers you is that the Government is focused on the people who needs help (the poor) instead of giving them more money to the rich. Debbie, I agree with you, that comment does not belong here and it is completely biased. Also, the unemployment rate of Venezuela has gone down A LOT thanks to Chavez this last year. That needs to be corrected. Any one who wants to know about Venezuela, its democracy and its people has to spend some time researching online and not to listen to the bias dominating networks. By the way, Chavez just offered free health care and cheaper gas to the poor people of the USA which is his strongest oppositor. A third world country offering free health care to the richest country and supposedly the most democratic of all. Something the greatest and richest democracies of the world have never done for the poor countries.
James 1st October 2005	Responding to jorge. It is easy to say a country is 'worse than Cuba' or something similiar by pointing to bias media. This is something that is very worrying. Propaganda distorting truth and reality. Who do we believe; Chavez Internation Bugle or G W Bush Independent Enquirer? etc., etc. And anyone can say something like, 'I have lived through Chavez's actions' (no disrespect at all, Andrea, I trust you are being honest). But how do we know that someone else can come along and lie? What I am getting at is anyone can lie and distort truth and reality, so where can we really find objective media?... http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR530082002 Anybody have a basis to refute and counter this link?
Gonzalo 18th October 2005	My point of view regarding the Venezuela situation was coming from long time ago. Since Lusinchi, Perez, Caldera and the Titere that we have today. I can agree with all of you and also disagree. But with all my respect to all of you we are guilty of the political, economic, and social situation that Venezuela is going trough today. We did allow that to happen. They lie to us since I was a child I do remember my granpa telling me how B.S was Perez, Caldera and I grew up believing in the Copei and AD, and because those political parties were taking money from everywhere and not helping the poor and the middle class the superman of the poor shows up thinking that he will help the poor and now they are poorer and Chevez Rich like hell. It is very sad and totally hurt my feeling because I do have family suffering like you guys and we have not open our eyes to realize and to find out were this problem started. What we need to do, I think is, let him to hang himself up in his own rope because he will make the mistake soon o later and Venezuela will be in a war with USA, Oposition and the Chavez and Cuban Regime and will be the end of this nightmare. After soo many people dies. I do fell sorry for my country
Adam 23rd October 2005	The whole notion of Chavez as a dictator or poorly running his country is nothing but good ol American propaganda at work.
maria 17th November 2005	When will the sex slave business in Venezuala be brought out on world news? Chavez is aware of it, he most likely uses it......Venezuela is the toilet of the Western Hemisphere.
John (NYC) 25th March 2007	"The whole notion of Chavez as a dictator or poorly running his country is nothing but good ol American propaganda at work. " Oh really Adam? So Chavez grabbing power to now rule by decree, bypassing all other branches of government isn't dictator like? As for poorly running his country, Venezuela has one of the highest inflation rates in the world. The economic genious which is Chavez has simply said that he will chop off the end digits off the currency, so a 5000 bolivar note will simply say 5 on it now. WOW, WHAT A FANATASTIC WAY TO MANAGE AN ECONOMY!
federico garcia (valencia venezuela) 15th October 2007	UPGRADE THE FLAG IT HAS ONE MORE STAR AND THE HORSE HEAD ITS POINTING TO THE FRONT
Jesus Ortega (Venezuela) 23rd November 2007	Excelente pagina de información. ¿Existe traducida al español? gracias.
ammu (India) 7th December 2007	I need to know all South America National birds and flowers

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