#Poverty trap

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Venezuela’s ‘socialist paradise’ turns into a nightmare: medical shortages claim lives as oil price collapses – Telegraph

“It’s the government who is responsible for my wife’s death, not the doctors,” Mr Perez, 63, told The Telegraph last week. “Things are very bad in this country, and they are getting worse. I feel that we are in a dictatorship. At the start I believed in Chavez, now I can’t look at him. He Read More
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The Socialist Sinking Ship: Then and Now | Mises Institute

      April 20, 2015Carmen Elena Dorobăț A little late to the party, the BBC wonders at the surreal and ongoing failure of the Venezuelan regime to provide its citizens with life’s basic amenities. Goods such as flour, sugar, cooking oil, shampoo and detergent, and the oft-mentioned toilet paper are now in such short Read More
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Immigrati, qualche scomoda verità

Solo di fronte a 700 morti le coscienze si scuotono. Settecento morti sono troppi anche per chi in questi anni ha fatto finta di non vedere. Perchè la tragedia va oltre questa cifra, ha proporzioni davvero enormi, in quello che è diventato un domino  della disperazione, che oggi ci fa dire: si stava meglio quando Saddam, Gheddafi, ovviamente Mubarak e Ben Ali. Meglio non solo noi occidentali, meglio innanzitutto... Read More