Poll: Brazil is better conducted than Venezuela

Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

During June 2009, we made the following question to the visitors of our Spanish website Morochos.org:

Which of the following countries governed by the left do you think that is better conducted?

We gave two options and each received the following percentage of votes:

1) Brazil, 78%

2) Venezuela, 22%

Observations:

Brazil and Venezuela represent the two political models among which the Latin American left is divided. On one side we have Chavez with his "twenty-first century socialism", which is merely a revival of the socialist system, human rights violator, that Fidel Castro established in Cuba with the help of the Soviets. On the other side is Lula, a more sophisticated leftist that, in addition to assimilate the basic rules of democracy, is aware that the Cuban socialist system has too many flaws to be considered a reasonable project.

From the first moment the answer to this survey would seem obvious, in fact almost any government in the world is better guided than the Chavez regime in Venezuela. However, despite the clear preference for the Lula government, Chavez has some imitators in the region. But anyway, there is nothing new to find disoriented politicians everywhere, especially if we talk about Latin America.

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