An Unnecessary US Coup D'Etat in Venezuela

The United States has been campaigning against Chavez for lord only knows how long. America has disagreed with pretty much everything he's done and has even entered Venezuela to aid in any and every campaign against him. Media has said poverty has risen, domestic spending has decreased, social services have decreased, but have never once had any data to support those claims.

I've found an article that presents actual and accurate data about Venezuela's poverty level, among other things, since Chavez took office in 1999. This article not only explains the actual numbers, but why the United States media may have become so... mistaken. All of the information I'm going to give you has been supported by The Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Since he's inauguration, the poverty level has dropped. It has peaked twice, however, during his administration. The first time was because of an oil strike where workers weren't working - a bad way to put it, sorry. This was remedied by nationalizing the oil industry. The second time was most probably due to a rapid growth in population that needed a year or two to compensate for. Overall, the number of houses in poverty dropped by 4.9% and the number of people in poverty dropped by 6.29% from 1999 (when he took office) to 2005 (the latest accurate information). It was expected to drop even more as the economy grew, I'm not sure where it is at now.
So poverty dropped. Chavez dropped the poverty in Venezuela. Terrible dictator hated by his people?
Not so much.
As for our media...
"So most of the news reports and articles alleging an increase in poverty under the Chávez administration are analogous to comparing winter temperatures to spring temperatures, and concluding on that basis that there is no global warming."

On top of that, Chavez has increased social support since 2003. There is an organization, Mercal, that sells food at about a 40% discount to help those who are too poor to afford it at full price. Their market share in Venezuela increased. There is now a program that provides free medical and health care to 54% of the population in Venezuela. That's better than anything we have.
"Access to free health care is a major improvement in the lives of the poor, and one that does not show up in the standard measure of poverty. It is not possible to adjust the poverty rate in a way that fully accounts for this change. For example, we could estimate the value of the health services provided free to the poor and add that to their income. However, the value of these services is so large relative to the poverty threshold that this method would move the vast majority of poor people over the poverty line." Terrible, incompassionate man looking to make some quick $$$?
Not so much.

According to the information I received from Upsidedownworld.org, the United States is now campaigning against Chavez in Venezuela: financially carrying his opposition, supporting inaccurate polls that not even survey organizations will support, and accusing him of corruption and fraud.
Chavez has done good things for his people. He's protected their oil industry by nationalizing it and guaranteeing it for his own people instead of us, he's lowered the poverty rate periodically, and he's provided those below the poverty line with free health care that our government won't even give us.

This evidence is what I use to show that the United States is manipulating elections for purely selfish reasons and needs to stop.

http://www.rethinkvenezuela.com/downloads/ceprpov.htm