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They're impressive by any standard. They include free healthcare, education, and other essential services. State resources provide them. America's go largely for militarism, imperial wars, banker handouts, and other benefits for corporate favorites.
Imperial priorities and profiteering come at the expense of growing poverty, unemployment, homelessness, hunger, and other unmet needs.
Police state harshness enforces the message on non-believers. Scoundrel media substitute misinformation for real news, information, commentary and analysis.
Venezuela's Constitution Article 58 mandates "timely, true, and impartial" information "without censorship, in accordance with the principles of this constitution."All Venezuelans are enfranchised equally from birth. Article 56 states they "have the right to be registered free of charge with the Civil Registry Office after birth, and to obtain public documents constituting evidence of the biological identity, in accordance with law."
In America, voting rights vary by state. Millions of citizens are wrongly declared ineligible. Others are fraudulently stricken from polls. Black and Latino voters are marginalized.
Electoral fraud is rampant. Free, fair, and open elections don't exist. Corporate owned/programmed electronic voting machines control the process. Ordinary people are shut out.
Venezuela established participatory democracy. Citizen assemblies were created. Constitutional provisions mandate fundamental freedoms, prohibit discrimination, and guarantee indigenous rights.
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