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The apologists for Maduro can believe anything, no matter how self-contradictory. The article in "Green Left Weekly" cited by Chris Slee boasts that basic goods are very cheap in Caracas--cheaper than anywhere else in the world!!!--and easily available!!!. Except... oops ... that hyperinflation is so bad that workers' wages can't afford them. It is supposed to be easy to find goods at these very cheap prices, it's just that these very cheap prices are fabulously expensive in Venezuelan money, and more expensive by the day! If this seems contradictory, well, we are told that "The Economist" said so! Would any serious, committed socialist doubt something that is supposed to come from an unnamed article in "The Economist"? As GLW puts it: "Today, it is again easy to find most of these goods - and relatively cheaply, as The Economist recently noted, ranking Caracas the cheapest city in the world. "But hyperinflation has meant workers´ wages have plummeted, making most things far from cheap for the majority. "Venezuela´s current minimum wage - the lowest in the region - stands at less than US$6 a month, or enough to buy one egg per day." On 22 Mar 2019 at 10:22, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote: > https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-despite-crisis-chavez > %E2%80%99s-legacy-endures > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
