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On Venezuela:
"If you like Chavez so much yadda yadda"
Sucks less than the opposition. Simple as that.
"I know someone who has a business there, and it's shitty."
And that's only coz of the evil govanmant!!1 and never because of that someone's incompetence. It's true because you asked an objective observer, that very same person.
Your mentioning of internet access reminded me of something: People online don't represent average opinion, because the poorest people are excluded. So social democrats and socialists receive a stronger negative response here than in the real world.
On Ukraine: Yushchenko is a criminal because he and his party was involved in the manipulation of the election, just like that other dude.
"Yes, Yuschchenko happens to like economic progress, increase of GDP per capita and quality of life"
When measuring quality of live I rather use stuff like infant mortality rate, lifespan and literacy.
And in that regard, the USA has pretty much the same level as the thirld world country Cuba. The first world socialist country sweden fares better than them.
You can look this up at the CIA world fact book page:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/flagsoftheworld.html
I bet that means the CIA are commies for ya.