tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post6833152952188476621..comments2024-03-27T02:18:35.808-07:00Comments on LAS ARMAS DE CORONEL: Debunking Greg Grandin's lionizing of ChavezGustavo Coronelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00048121984705082839noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-90048228431398260762017-09-14T06:37:00.088-07:002017-09-14T06:37:00.088-07:00Housing...
https://alekboyd.blogspot.no/2011/04/v...Housing...<br /><br />https://alekboyd.blogspot.no/2011/04/venezuela-viviendas-y-pib.htmlABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10014152460206926913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-57788892980772090902017-07-11T18:01:19.868-07:002017-07-11T18:01:19.868-07:00Excuse me just a tiny comment. It sounds better in...Excuse me just a tiny comment. It sounds better in English to say Chavez was the engine instead of the motor behind the current Venezuelan tragedy.Isabelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01272372430024625356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-74441918693072271132017-06-26T11:00:27.559-07:002017-06-26T11:00:27.559-07:00Correction:
Venezuela
Literacy rate, adult total ...Correction:<br /><br /><b>Venezuela</b><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2001 <b>93.0%</b><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2011 <b>94.8%</b><br /><br /><b>Latin America</b><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2000 <b>89.7%</b><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2010 <b>92.6%</b><br /><br /><br /><br />Adult Literacy increase<br />Venezuela 1.8% from 2001-2011<br />Latin America 2.9% from 2000-2010Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-29211259774602936262017-06-26T10:52:03.770-07:002017-06-26T10:52:03.770-07:00So Misiones coverage peaked in 2005,and gradually ...So Misiones coverage peaked in 2005,and gradually declined. So much for “The social gains of Chavismo at its apex, from around 2005 to Chávez’s final re-election in 2012,were spectacular." <br /><br />Which supports the supposition that Chavez pulled the Misiones out of his hat to gain support in the 2004 Recall Referendum. With the Recall won- by hook or by crook- the motivation to financially support the Misiones gradually diminished. <br /><br />In any event, the "achievements" of Chavismo have long been mostly smoke and mirrors. <br /><br />I wonder how Mr. Grandin and the London Review of Books would react to all this.<br /><br />Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-63396568136838462902017-06-26T03:02:47.741-07:002017-06-26T03:02:47.741-07:00Lo mismo sucedió con la "Misiones". Aquí...Lo mismo sucedió con la "Misiones". Aquí pongo el link al artículo que escribí sobre el fracaso de las Misiones, basado en cifras del Banco Central de Venezuela:<br />http://lasarmasdecoronel.blogspot.com/2011/11/el-fracaso-de-las-misiones-segun-el.htmlGustavo Coronelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00048121984705082839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-43907685552284159652017-06-25T14:23:38.116-07:002017-06-25T14:23:38.116-07:00In the opinion of Grandin: “The social gains of Ch...<i>In the opinion of Grandin: “The social gains of Chavismo at its apex, from around 2005 to Chávez’s final re-election in 2012, were spectacular: greater employment, improved nutrition, increased literacy and <b>life expectancy</b>, more and better housing”. </i><br /><br />From 2005 to 2012, Venezuela's Life Expectancy increased 0.72 years, compared to 1.57 years for Latin America. From 2005 to 2012, Venezuela's Life Expectancy went from 9th to 11th in Latin America. <br /><br />Only a lying PSF or Chavista would call that gain "spectacular."<br />I would add that the record for 1999-2012 is similar for Life Expectancy, as in 1999, Venezuela's Life Expectancy ranked 9th in Latin America.<br /><br /><br />I would also add that it is only fair to include housing construction for Chavismo from 1999-2012, given Chavismo's abysmal housing construction record from 1999-2008.<br /><br />Regarding Literacy; <br /><br /><b>Latin America</b><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2000 <i>89.7%</i><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2010 <i>92.6%</i><br /><br /><b>Venezuela</b><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2001 <i>89.7%</i><br />Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above),2011<i>92.6%</i><br /><br />Adult Literacy increase<br />Venezuela 1.8% from 2001-2011<br />Latin America 2.9% from 2000-2010<br /><br />If the claim is made that literacy gains were greater after 2005, here are the adult literacy figures from the World Bank.<br />Venezuela: Adult Literacy,<br />2001 93.0 %<br />2007 95.2 %<br />2009 95.5 %<br />2011 94.8 %<br /><br />As there is a decline in adult literacy from 2009 to 2011, those "spectacular" gains in literacy after 2005 make just one more BS Chavista/PSF claim. Just like the claims that UNESCO had declared Venezuela an "illiteracy-free zone."<br /><br /><a href="http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators" rel="nofollow">World Bank World Development Indicators.</a>Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-55210990646788301622017-06-25T13:16:41.358-07:002017-06-25T13:16:41.358-07:00In the opinion of Grandin: “The social gains of Ch...<i>In the opinion of Grandin: “The social gains of Chavismo at its apex, from around 2005 to Chávez’s final re-election in 2012, were spectacular: greater employment, improved nutrition, increased literacy and life expectancy,<b> more and better housing”. </b></i><br /><br />For housing, I refer Grandin to my <a href="https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2013/05/23/parking-in-caracas-is-getting-harder/#comment-47527" rel="nofollow">Caracas Chronicles comment in 2013.</a> Quote:<br /><i>Let us now deal with "national affordable housing industry." Several months ago Quico had a very informative graph at <a href="https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2013/02/06/gran-mision-mad-rush-to-catch-up-after-years-of-broken-promises/" rel="nofollow">Gran Mision Mad Rush to Catch Up After Years of Broken Promises</a>. While Quico’s graph compared housing construction per year for Chavismo versus Fourth Republic, he did not translate this into a housing construction per capita per year stat.<br />From the <a href="http://transparencia.org.ve/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/0.-Antecedentes-y-Metodolog%C3%ADa-GMVV.pdf" rel="nofollow">link</a> @ page 5 that Quico supplied in his comment <i>@February 6, 2013 at 10:04 am</i>, I got concrete numbers, which agree- not surprisingly- with Quico’s graph.<br />Housing Construction per year<br />1979-1998 65,871<br />1999-2012 53,481<br /><br />To translate this into a housing construction per capita stat per year, I went to the same World Bank link where I got the economy figures.<br />Average population for 1979-1998: 19,043,171<br />Average population for 1999-2011 26,575,846<br />The World Bank data doesn’t give population for 2012, but by extrapolating 2011’s growth for 2012, one can come up with an average population for 1999-2012: 26,801,060<br />Not much difference.<br /><br />When this is translated into Housing Units constructed per year per 100,000 population, we get:<br /><br />1979-1998 346<br />1999-2012 200 [using pop average 1999-2012]<br />1999-2012 201 [using pop average 1999-2011]<br /><br />Once again, metrics show that Chavismo comes up short. What a surprise.<br /><br />As A Barreda’s comment at the Gran Mision link show, the recent surge in housing construction has a number of very poorly constructed housing units. So the recent surge in housing construction has to be taken with a considerable grain of salt. </i><br /><br />In the last year I have seen some undocumented claims that under Chavismo some 1,500,000 housing units have been built, which given the previous well-documented figure of 53,461 units per year from 1999-2012, imply that around 200,000 housing units per year were built from 2013-2016. Which sounds like utter nonsense, given the performance of the Venezuelan economy from 2013-2016.Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-16672366975957305982017-06-25T12:05:15.292-07:002017-06-25T12:05:15.292-07:00AMIGOS MÍOS, ME ACABA DE OCURRIR ALGO SORPRENDENTE...AMIGOS MÍOS, ME ACABA DE OCURRIR ALGO SORPRENDENTE, a<br />Antetodo soy espanol vivo en Espana: este medio me impide publicar enlaces a páginas del regimen y de los opositores sobre los fallecidos en venezuela: me dice que los del alba no los puedo publicar y me bloquea. os recomiendo buscarlos en google : poner Alba listado fallecidos, para el oficial y El Nacional para la versión opositora en el buscador y comparadlos: os lo daba hecho pero la empresa americana que nos da cobijo acá dice que tiene sus "normas". Pura ideología, obviamente). La libertad en internet mengua.<br />Sólo una nota: el listado de El nacional, "olvida" los 8 policias muertos por bala y no identifica los autores de muertes (muchas) cuyo causante no sea la policía o los chavistas. Realmente interesante comparar ambos listados. Luego que cada uno saque sus conclusiones. <br />Sobre lo "otro" yo ya he sacado las mías.<br />¿SORPRENDENTE? no tantoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-17041221988588023962017-06-25T07:01:43.982-07:002017-06-25T07:01:43.982-07:00Leftists always want to be judged on their intenti...Leftists always want to be judged on their intentions, not the horrible results of their actions. <br />"Their heart was in the right place." Chavez was just another Castro wannabe hero whose revolution could only survive as long as the oil-addicted capitalist gringos continued to pay him billions of $$$ for his oil. When there is no more money to steal, socialism fails. The mechanism of creation of wealth is beyond their understanding, only the seizure of other people's wealth and redistribution. It always seems like it's working for awhile. Then the crooks and the looters step in and the repression starts. RLEEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04825555024937741161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125355648059480100.post-51917950769227941702017-06-24T09:49:38.262-07:002017-06-24T09:49:38.262-07:00During the activities yesterday of change in the m...During the activities yesterday of change in the military leadership, the following refrain was repeated a vomit inducing number of times:<br /><br />Some General: Chavez vive!<br />Maduro: Y la patria sigue<br />General: Independencia y patria socialista!<br />Maduro: viviremos y venceremos<br />General: El sol de venezuela nace en el Esequibo!<br />Maduro: Nace en el esequibo<br /><br />What demented mind created this "cursileria".<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com