Chavez on poverty and IMF

March 16, 2003

It seems I was a little early yesterday when I wrote about the Government and poverty. It appears Hugo Chavez does not read his own Government statistics, as today he said he will fight poverty aggressively to erradicae “that 80% of the population” that lives below the poverty line. Now, I wonder what he thinks his job has been for the last four years, no? He said five years ago that reducing poverty was his number one goal, but now says poverty is the same as when he took office…..In the same nationwide address, Chavez accused some officers of the IMF of plotting last year’s coup agaisnt him…….way to go Hugo, that is how you gain friends internationally!

This entry was posted on March 16, 2003 at 7:14 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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