Before Hugo Chavez’ election in 1999:
- 65% of Venezuelan people lived below the international poverty line
- Only 30% could afford meat, coffee & basic goods
- 1.5 million adult Venezuelans were illiterate
- Nearly half the population was forced to live in the barrios
By 2013, the year of Hugo Chavez’ death:
- Poverty had fallen by more than half
- Food consumption was up by 80%
- In 2005, the country was declared fully literate
- Quality housing was declared a right and public housing began to replace the unsatisfactory living conditions
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