Reply #17: Oh, I don't know maybe because of: [View All]

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1 - Mision Bario Adentro "... a series of initiatives deployed in 3 distinct stages to provide free, comprehensive and high-quality community health and dental care in hospitals and clinics (aided by 20,000 Cuban doctors). More than 500 centers providing medical care have been built.."

2 - Mision Mercal "...provides access to high quality produce, grains, dairy products and meat at affordable prices. It also provides the poor with better access to nutritious, safe, organic locally and nationally grown foods as well as attempting to increase Venezuela's food sovereignty."

3 - Mision Robinson "... uses volunteers to teach the poor to read and write. In 2004 it had raised the literacy rate to an impressive 99% of the population having so far enrolled nearly 1.4 million people, nearly 1.3 of whom have successfully completed the program.."

4 -Mision Ribas "... nearly 29 thousand education centers around the country provides a high school education to Venezuelans of all ages..."

5 - Mision Sucre "... provides access to higher education to all Venezuelans with a high school or equivalency degree." "...education now is completely free through the university level..."

6 - Misiones Guaicaipuro and Habitat "...restore communal land titles and human rights to the country's poor and indigenous peoples as well as defend their rights against resource and financial speculation by dominant business interests..."

If this is what a "clown" does, the world could use a hell of a lot more of them!