" ... Chavez faces dire problems in Venezuela - World news - Americas - msnbc.com: "Some in the financial community think a distracted Chavez could even help matters. Alejandro Grisanti, an economist with the investment bank Barclays Capital, said the president might have less time to think up new ways to spend money. That could slow a 24 percent inflation rate, second only to that of Ethiopia." (Sanchez, Fabiola. 7/8/2011. LINK AP) ..."
Chavez's charisma and unchecked access to public funds will remain his most useful weapons heading toward the December 2012 election. Those long-unsolved problems may be his biggest challenge to re-election.___________Reference
Even under a robust Chavez, his government has seemed to focus on grand socialist plans and provocative geopolitics rather than on nuts-and-bolt governance. Promised housing has gone unbuilt. Promised upgrades to power plants have been delayed. The worst prison riot in years has broken out after years of unmet vows to fix the country's prisons. Once-profitable farms and factories have struggled after being nationalized. Government debt has soared despite a river of profits from $100 a barrel oil. (ibid)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43687770/ns/world_news-americas/
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