October 26, 2005
castrocare comes to Venezuela
Ever since castro showed up in Caracas, sending in his 30,000 Cuban 'doctors,' Venezuelan health care has fallen apart. Like castro's vaunted program, Hugo Chavez's castroite health care program is not only a shambles of socialism, but gallingly touted as humane and the wave of the future in a Potemkin display of lying propaganda. It's anything but.
Miguel Octavio has an item first describing how a Norwegian reporter asked Hugo Chavez a question about the deplorable state of Venezuela's Cubanized health care system and how Chavez attacked the reporter and lied about the state of Venezuelan hospitals.
Then the article describes the terrible state of Venezuela's hospitals and how the writer's cousin died for lack of any recognizable medical attention after a brain aneurysm. This, in a nation that's dripping with $84 billion in state-oil company earnings supposedly there to 'help' the people!
The awful story can be read here.
Posted by Mora at October 26, 2005 01:29 PM
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Venezuela: a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to get sick there. Or at least it used to be a nice place to visit.
Posted by: PTG at October 26, 2005 01:35 PM
Castro defeated again:
Sakharov Prize to Ladies in White on Cuba
Posted by: Stefania at October 26, 2005 01:36 PM
You know what? An Italian town is named "Castrocaro" ... but it has nothing to do with Castro !
Posted by: Stefania at October 26, 2005 01:56 PM
PTG, Venezuela is still a nice place to visit, but I recommend you to go with a good travel insurance (I am venezuelan).
Posted by: K-2 at October 27, 2005 08:22 AM
