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If you make a research, you'll notice in this chart that Venezuela has the slowest Internet in all of America (with 1.8mbps) which is very strange when taking into consideration that Venezuela has over 50% of its population with access to it and 2 satellites.

The story begins in 2006 (at the full swing of expropriations made by Chávez) with a businessman that wanted to buy CANTV (the internet provider) and since he was an "evil capitalist", Chávez expropriated CANTV and transformed it into a piece of his political strategy by increasing the amount of people that could access it but never increasing its quality or the speed of said connection. By 2009, the Parliament (fully controlled by Chavistas) decided to stop using the money to invest it on the Internet development (but still making it more accessible to the country) so by 2016, the Internet now was being used by over 80% of the country, but still was really small,which was like if all of New Jersey decided to take the smallest Highway to go to New York at the same time.

End result: We have a slower Internet than Bolivia (a Country with only 10M inhabitants and one of the lowest GDPs in America)

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