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rfmcdonald1. The left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research has a press release for a report arguing that Venezuela under Chavez has seen economic successes, with rapid growth in GDP and poverty and falling incomes.
2. Writing in In These Times, Bhaskar Sunkara compares Chavez's 21st century socialism to a post-modern region of Argentina's Peronism, a left-leaning movement that includes populist and authoritarian elements as well.
3. The Los Angeles Times notes that many Venezuelan clients in the Caribbean basin, chief among them Cuba, are concerned that a post-Chavez Venezuela may not provide them with subsidies, including cheap oil.
4. The North American Congress on Latin America notes that Venezuelan subsidy programs even exist in the United States, where state-owned Citgo donates large amounts of heating fuel to poor Americans.
2. Writing in In These Times, Bhaskar Sunkara compares Chavez's 21st century socialism to a post-modern region of Argentina's Peronism, a left-leaning movement that includes populist and authoritarian elements as well.
3. The Los Angeles Times notes that many Venezuelan clients in the Caribbean basin, chief among them Cuba, are concerned that a post-Chavez Venezuela may not provide them with subsidies, including cheap oil.
4. The North American Congress on Latin America notes that Venezuelan subsidy programs even exist in the United States, where state-owned Citgo donates large amounts of heating fuel to poor Americans.
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