Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, in the style of Stalin before him, continuously makes ridiculous claims about ending poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and exclusion. Under his great “socialism,” all is sweetness and light, wonder and justice, just like the Happy Commie pictures you find in Iron Curtain propaganda posters. Yeah, sure.

Have you ever tried to learn another language? Do you remember how hard it was to learn to read when you were five or six, even if you had the best teachers? Under Chavistadom, you are now asked to believe that it no longer is hard anymore to become literate and under Miraculous Cuban Methods, shantytown dwellers with no previous skill set can effortlessly read in less than just a year.

That’s the snake oil claims of Hugo Chavez that no one but a fool or a starry-eyed leftist of the totalitarian set would actually believe.

Surprisingly, that doesn’t include the United Nations. The UN refused to endorse Chavez’s claims of magic-wand literacy on the Caracas shantytowns, which his minions have falsely claimed as UN-certified illiteracy-free zones.

Turns out it’s not true at all. Any more than Chavez’s poverty claims, debunked earlier by Andres Oppenheimer, using Venezuelan government data, have any truth to them. Communism is, was, and always will be a sham of phony claims on human development. The reality is, it’s the most inhuman, unaccountable, and brutal system ever devised in history.

Alek Boyd at VCrisis has once again debunked another Chavez lie about the UN supposedly certifying the country as free from illiteracy. It’s no such thing. Read the whole thing here.