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user-inactivated · 4278 days ago · link ·
This is extremely oversimplified. I think the key number is in the bottom right -- and the unprecedented expansion of the Venezuelan oil industry in the last decade has not paid the dividends it should have. Here is a great take on the economic situation in Venezuela as perceived internally, and a good subsequent discussion. A pithy infographic is not an argument.
nametheoccupation · 4279 days ago · link ·
I assume it's real GDP per capita and not nominal?
thenewgreen · 4281 days ago · link ·
It's not hard to see why his country feels so grateful to him. That murder rate is a pretty big jump though, but a lot of people would gladly take that for the economic improvements.
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AnSionnachRua · 4280 days ago · link ·
Two abstract statistics do not display the complex sea of relations that is Venezuelan life...