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[HawkerHurricane]

As I said, all examples are from inlaws in the country, translated my my wife. Therefore, no links, newspaper articles, or others.

My Brother in law, the geoligist, worked for the government in the Iron industry. He was fired for 'incorrect statements'. When he got a job in the private sector, a crowd harrassed him at his workplace for 'being against the government'.

The surgeon has had his family harrassed more than once, especially over the issue of Cuban doctors working under him at the government owned clinic. (He works at the clinic 4 days a week, private practice 2 days). He says thier skills are substandard, but when he put in a official complaint about one, he had his tires slashed, complete with note saying why.
Reason he complained about doctor: young boy (8 years) came in with crushed hand. My bro in law evaluated, decided that it could be repaired, assigned the Cuban M.D. to treat him...and the Cuban amputated the hand, saying it couldn't be fixed. Didn't ask for help, didn't say 'are you sure it can be saved', just cut it off. Not the only incident, but the only one he's reported, for fear of getting worse. He'd quit the clinic, but then all the cases would be handled by the Cuban or interns...he's considering dumping his private practice to work more at the clinic, even though it would cut his pay. Anything to keep the idiot from amputating more limbs.

Now, I'm not going to say that President Chavez treats the poor badly. But what he's doing is not going to help them; he going to drive the professionals out of the country if he keeps it up.

As I said, trapped between Chavez and the CIA...neither option is going to help.