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Caracas, Venezuela – Buy and sell, wheel and deal, but don’t get rich.
That’s the advice to businessmen from Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, a self-proclaimed revolutionary who wants to develop a new form of socialism to fight poverty in the world’s fifth biggest oil exporter.
«Being rich is bad, it’s bad. People who are rich, who have a lot of money should donate all of that,» Chavez told a conference for small business owners.
Chavez, an ally and admirer of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, often presents his left-leaning policies as an alternative to «savage capitalism». Since his 1998 election, he has increased public spending on a raft of social programmes for the poor.
But critics accuse Chavez, the son of rural school teachers who rose to political fame by leading a botched military coup, of trying to copy Cuba’s communist system in Venezuela.
They say he has increased state intervention in the economy and squeezed private business with currency and price curbs.
«I don’t want money. Really, when I leave here, there’ll be a shack or a hammock waiting for me somewhere,» said Chavez in a sharp business suit. «I don’t want anything for myself.»
Para el que todos los demas menos sus amigos sean pobres y pata en el suelo es una virtud, y el, camino a ser uno de los hombres mas ricos del mundo. Por eso digo, quie quienes todavia lo siguen son bien bolsas….
Miguel (Valencia)
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