Sounds great, why don't u move.
Outside the Economy. It will take all these new-found characteristics to solve the problems that face Venezuela. Oil production—2,770,000 bbl. a day, second only to the U.S.—brings the government $2,400,000 a day in revenue, gives Venezuela the highest per-capita income—$800 a year—in Latin America.
But oil brings poverty along with riches. Attracted by the smell of wealth and the hope of jobs, rural workers flock to oilfields and cities, only to sit idle in shantytowns. By leaving fields unworked behind them, they increase the need to import food. Last year the country spent $152 million to import staples such as wheat, corn, rice and meat. Imported eggs alone cost $30,000 a day.
The oil-economy prices are among the world's highest. It costs around $16,000 a year for a family to live a middle-class life in Caracas. And the wealth is sadly out of balance: 2,000,000 Venezuelans in a total population of 6,320,000 are outside the money economy entirely. Other problems that Betancourt faces:
¶ Large landowners, 1.9% of the farming population, hold 74% of the farming land; some 350,000 peasant families have neither land nor work.
¶ About 25% of Caracas' housing, 50% of housing in other cities and 99% of rural housing must be replaced.
¶ More than half the population is illiterate.
¶ Total population is jumping at a fast 3% a year, and the work force is growing by 60,000 a year; urban unemployment is rising.
¶ There is only one hospital bed for every 500 inhabitants.
