How Will The Mayor Who Vows To Clean Up Venezuelas Filthy Capital Do It?
A mayor loyal to President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his office will take over two waste-collection companies the are responsible for picking up garbage in Caracas, where residents have long complained about inadequate trash collection. Chavez himself has repeatedly weighed in on the issue, criticizing city authorities for failing to get rid of the heaps of refuse that line the capital’s gritty downtown streets.
Whoever solves the problem will simply need to do a better job of trash collection. Here is more information on the problem of uncollected trash in Caracas, Venezuela: Mayor seizes waste-management companies, vows to clean up Venezuela’s trash-strewn capital By Associated Press March 18, 2010 | 5:40 p.m. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It’s a dirty job, and now the government’s gonna do it. A mayor loyal to President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his office will take over two waste-collection companies the are responsible for picking up garbage in Caracas, where residents have long complained about inadequate trash collection. Chavez himself has repeatedly weighed in on the issue, criticizing city authorities for failing to get rid of the heaps of refuse that line the capital’s gritty downtown streets. Jorge Rodriguez, the mayor of Caracas’ El Libertador district and a self-proclaimed socialist, blamed the problem on “the failure of the capitalist system, in which private interests were put
