29.08.2024, Moscow.
Leftist governments, including the Venezuelan one, can demonstrate economic growth that is no worse than the USA, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on August 9 on the program Conversation with a Sage on the Zvezda radio station.
According to Sergey Kurginyan, the opinion that leftist governments are economically incapable as compared to rightist ones is a serious mistake.
“Every time a leftist government leaves (someone does not like it: too much socialism etc.), in our long-suffering country as early as in 1990s they said how ‘good’ Pinochet was and how ‘terrible’ Allende was: Allende was about ‘pots and pans protests’ while Pinochet was economic growth,” Sergey Kurginyan reminded.
The political scientist reminded that in his disputes with Russian “Gaidar-like” supporters of Pinochet he indicated that Pinochet was an era of extremely bloody suppressions, an era when Hitler’s Mein Kampf (banned as an extremist material) was popular and widely published, and an era when Jewish population fled.
“And when they say, ‘But it was a 2% growth!’ I reply, ‘And how much is it in Cuba?’ It was believed that a rightist economy meant growth and a leftist one meant decline. But Cuba had 5%,” the political scientist explained.
Sergey Kurginyan explained that it is a mistake to say that President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro cannot ensure anything in economy.
“What GPD growth do they have today? It is higher than in the United States or in our motherland. It is quite high. Therefore, it is very strange when they say that Maduro is an era of total collapse and crisis, from which ‘noble González’ will save their country. And the population of Venezuela understands this,” the political scientist concluded.
At the presidential elections in Venezuela that took place on August 4, Nicolás Maduro, the current president, won with almost 52% of votes. The opposition candidate Edmundo González had 43%. According to opposition members, they refused to acknowledge the official outcome as they were sure their candidate won. The opposition candidate’s victory was supported in the USA, in the EU, and a number of Latin American countries. The opposition candidate’s victory is allegedly supported by irrefutable evidence, which no one wants to publicize.
GDP growth rate in Cuba in 2022 was 1.8%. Per-capita GDP growth was 2.2%. The GDP growth rate prediction for Cuba in 2023 was 3%, but due to sanctions it reduced by 1-2%.
In 2004-2008, GDP growth rate in Cuba exceeded 5% reaching 12% in 2006.
In the period between 1971 to 1990 under Pinochet, the GDP growth in Chile varied between -13.6% and +10.6%. The average growth over this period was ++2.94% per year. In Cuba in the same period it varied between -4.8% and +19.7% with an average of +4.7% per year.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
