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by otalp 3228 days ago
Venezuela is very far from the government he prefers. In fact it's close to the exact opposite, since he's an an anarchist and vocal critic of Lenin and Stalin. He however supports the rights of Latin American countries to elect their own government over CIA backed dictators who privatise resources and funnel out a country's wealth.

The fact that social democratic countries in Latin America have overall had better development than extreme free market societies like haiti or pre-socialist Brazil is pretty widely accepted, dutch disease inflicted Venezuela notwithstanding.

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Which social democracy is doing well here in south america? We are currently paying the price for all the post-socialist economical measures here in Brazil.It's not pretty.
As I have some Brazilian friends that disagree with you I went to the statistic data and it doesn't look so bad.

For instance,the poverty headcount:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAHC?locations=BR

Specially against this one, a growing population:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=BR

Ecuador didn't do too badly under Correa: http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/ecuador-2017-02.pdf