I have discussed quite some with them and listened to what they say. People are not stupid, but very very ignorant. There are some who are very clever and realize, but a lot do not.
Most Venezuelans in those barrios have never been abroad and those who do often have really a very weak framework of reference.
They think about what they have had 2, 4, 5, max. 10 years ago.

It does not matter they have been given only the crumbles the Arnes and the Hugos left.
I saw one of them in Brussels. There was a discussion about the film Secuestro Express. He stood up and said things were not thaat bad. I later talked to him. He said he had been living in a barrio in the capital for 30 years and had never been hurt or robbed. I really had to explain what statistics really mean.

Once I asked some Venezuelans who were at the university or had finished it and who were not from the slums some very trivial history questions. I asked them those questions because they were not following something I told them about genes and history and I wanted to see what level they had. I asked the questions and most of them had NO clue. I mentioned this to someone else in a blog (RomRod) and he did the same test. Later he told me: similar answers, their idea of history is a “pasticho mental”.
Some of the questions:
In what century did Spaniards arrive to what would be Venezuela, MORE OR LESS?
In what century did we get our independence?
In what century more or less was Jesus born more or less? (whether they are believers or not)
What language did Spanish derive from?

A lot of people in the barrios have no idea about oil prices now or ten years ago, about what our oil dependency really means, etc.
Mind: most people in Venezuela, whether pro or against chavez, think Venezuela is a rich country. It is only in as much as almost any country but Mali o Niger is. Even in the best case scenario our population can no longer prosper based on petrodollars alone (just divide some kind of ideal revenues through population).

It is about real deep ignorance. There are others abroad who are simply idiots: the PSFs. They had usually much better schools than the average Venezuelan had.

What do you mean by no having education, reference, etc. All they need to do is go to the closest Barrio Adentro or any hospital in the country. If they think this is better than in other countries, then we are really screwed.

You know what bothers me about this? That there are a lot of people in Venezuela that for some uninmaginable reason still believe him. Can someone explain how this can be?