True she is a billionaire, but most was received after Hugo´s death in 2013. It takes time to embezzle that much from your countries coffers. Been here since 1981 and saw it all.
So what are conditions in the country now? The MSM is so unreliable in reporting things that are "headline events", and when that headline is over, you never hear about the longer term story. Venezuela was the "Ukraine" of news a few years ago, but now it's as if Venezuela doesn't exist. (but still has the most incredible beauty pageant contestants! :) )
My wife was born and raised there and her parents are still stuck there so I am close to the situation.
It is terrible there right now. Jobs are almost non existent, if you do find one the pay is not enough to support yourself. My in-laws were middle class and live in, what used to be, a nice, fairly wealthy area and they only get their water turned on twice a day for 30 minutes, constantly have power outages and grocery stores rarely have enough food to support the amount of people in the area. They are both university educated professionals that used to own a thriving small business and now they have to scramble daily when the water comes on for 30 minutes just to do normal household activities (cleaning and cooking) and struggle to get enough food on the table to survive.
Its a pretty dire situation in that "wealthy" area, it must be like a doomsday scenario in traditional working class and impoverished areas because all of the government handouts dried up.
The media has never really truly described what is going on there. It is a failed socialist state that systematically destroyed a once thriving country with a huge middle class and reduced it to ashes. Venezuela was the closest thing to the US that South America had and they crushed it.
God help them! Here at home after about the kids clamour to be in with their peers, riled up by their brainwashers ( aka "teachers") to attend rallies, protests and take sex change drugs. they are tricked to support the communist party, and approve open borders and trans and pan gender people.
Pretty scary how leftists can ruin a country so easily. What is really maddening is that despite all the history of how socialism destroys countries, the stupid Democrats in this country (the voters), fall for their evil Democrat politicians promises of how socialism (of course they don't call it that) will make right all the "unfairness" of their lives.
Maybe once he joins the ranks of Van Gogh and can sell his artwork for even more money. Who needs a foundation anymore when you have "anonymous" rich leaders who love Hunters art.
After Chavez was elected in 2001 his daughter became a billionaire, worth 4 billion dollars.
True she is a billionaire, but most was received after Hugo´s death in 2013. It takes time to embezzle that much from your countries coffers. Been here since 1981 and saw it all.
So what are conditions in the country now? The MSM is so unreliable in reporting things that are "headline events", and when that headline is over, you never hear about the longer term story. Venezuela was the "Ukraine" of news a few years ago, but now it's as if Venezuela doesn't exist. (but still has the most incredible beauty pageant contestants! :) )
My wife was born and raised there and her parents are still stuck there so I am close to the situation.
It is terrible there right now. Jobs are almost non existent, if you do find one the pay is not enough to support yourself. My in-laws were middle class and live in, what used to be, a nice, fairly wealthy area and they only get their water turned on twice a day for 30 minutes, constantly have power outages and grocery stores rarely have enough food to support the amount of people in the area. They are both university educated professionals that used to own a thriving small business and now they have to scramble daily when the water comes on for 30 minutes just to do normal household activities (cleaning and cooking) and struggle to get enough food on the table to survive.
Its a pretty dire situation in that "wealthy" area, it must be like a doomsday scenario in traditional working class and impoverished areas because all of the government handouts dried up.
The media has never really truly described what is going on there. It is a failed socialist state that systematically destroyed a once thriving country with a huge middle class and reduced it to ashes. Venezuela was the closest thing to the US that South America had and they crushed it.
God help them! Here at home after about the kids clamour to be in with their peers, riled up by their brainwashers ( aka "teachers") to attend rallies, protests and take sex change drugs. they are tricked to support the communist party, and approve open borders and trans and pan gender people.
Pretty scary how leftists can ruin a country so easily. What is really maddening is that despite all the history of how socialism destroys countries, the stupid Democrats in this country (the voters), fall for their evil Democrat politicians promises of how socialism (of course they don't call it that) will make right all the "unfairness" of their lives.
I believe the media stopped reporting on Venezuela after it was shown that the citizens were shooting animals in the zoo to prevent starvation.
Didn't the average adult citizen lose 20 lbs?
Which would be justified
shooting? they were using rocks too.
Is Hunter a billionaire yet?
Maybe once he joins the ranks of Van Gogh and can sell his artwork for even more money. Who needs a foundation anymore when you have "anonymous" rich leaders who love Hunters art.
Boy. she must have been a hard worker......