Did I miss something in my math classes?

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Monday, April 21, 2003 By: Becker Yvonne

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:00:27 -0400 From: Becker Yvonne smash2707@terra.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: Who ruined the Venezuelan economy?

Dear Editor: I just read Oscar Heck's op-ed <a href=www.vheadline.com>Who ruined the Venezuelan economy? Chavez Frias? and my eyes cannot believe what they read.

Heck speaks about the right to eat?

Is Oscar Heck aware that Chavez said “con hambre y sin empleo con Chavez me resteo” which means “hungry and unemployed I support Chavez.”

Does Heck think this means Chavez cares about poor people?

Heck says most of the opposition is middle or high class ... it seems you live in another country than me. If about 20% is upper class (middle class and and rich people), how do you explain that at least 70% of the population opposes Chavez (some say 80%).

Did I miss something in my math classes?

Later Heck says Chavez gives poor people the right to complain about corruption and abuse? Maybe that is about the only right they have, because investigations don’t go any further than the complains. How can he explain the huge amounts of money this government has stolen or misused, and that no one has been convicted for corruption?

Access to good education? I guess that is the reason why public universities are practically broke, and "Bolivarian schools" break down less than three months after being build, and most of them don't give lunch (there is even a video of Chavez asking the students if they already had had lunch and they answer Noooooo!).

I wonder where Heck gets the "access to good education with filled stomachs" line from. He says that if elections are called after the Referendum Chavez would win ... who in his sound mind would think that someone who had just been revoked could run for Presidency? I don’t understand the logic.

I am sorry if I sound harsh.

I am just sick of reading false affirmations made by people who either don't know the Venezuelan reality, or believe what they read without researching any further or are paid by the government to make propaganda for a false revolution ... which has only brought destruction.

I don't deny that there were serious problems when Chavez came to power; but it is also truth that under his government poverty, unemployment, corruption and insecurity have increased. Further, the government seems to support criminality and terrorism, as can clearly be proven by Chavez' defense of murderers like Gouveia or violation of the laws and he Constitution.

Yvonne Becker smash2707@terra.com

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