Thank you very much for your question. It is very relevant. Putting everything in context is something we should do.
I think at the outset I did say something about achievements. These are real achievements: reduction in poverty, access to health care. The Venezuelans have used their oil wealth to subsidize Cuban medicine, Cuban doctors. That's been very successful.
As you pointed out, the indicators are showing that the incidence of poverty is less.
One way of looking at this is in a comparative way. Let's say you had an adopted child, and you could put that child in any country in Latin America, with the qualification that the child had to be placed in, and grow up in, the worst economic area--in a slum zone of that country. Where would you put the child? Well, Venezuela wouldn't be such a bad place. It would be a lot better than Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Paraguay, Jamaica, and several others. You could apply this same measurement to Cuba. The ladder from extreme poverty exists in Cuba in a way that does not exist in any of the other countries. That's something that is necessary to view to get the full picture.
However, the quality of life is in trouble in Venezuela. Corruption is a serious problem, as is the dysfunction and incompetence of the government. Inflation bears on everybody, but it bears most heavily on the most impoverished. They have the highest inflation rate in the entire region.
I can't give you exact figures, but while economically Venezuela is increasingly in trouble in some of these vital sectors, Colombia is beginning to march upward. This is not to say it has entirely vanquished illiteracy and extreme poverty, but the Colombian indicators are beginning to climb.