An Utter Failure

October 29, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under International Affairs 

Hugo Chavez is getting paranoid about his political prospects, but it’s his country that should concern him:

The crop of Chavistas elected in 2000 and 2004 has proven to be a failure, with some honorable exceptions. The love story of Chavez with the masses seems to have started fraying as people get tired of Venezuela having become one of the countries with the highest crime rate. Public services and utilities are slowly but surely collapsing: we have had three — three — national power outages this year lasting several hours each. In some states power outages are almost a daily occurrence. These failures accompany others, such as the deficient official heath system in spite of the Cuban-inspired Barrio Adentro. Garbage has also become a major issue and mostly in Chavista-held cities such as Caracas, which is literally buried by tons of garbage while the free space left is occupied by informal street vendors. This does not help the people that must spend hours in the hopelessly congested streets of Venezuela’s main cities.

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