When China signed up to build Venezuela’s Tinaco-Anaco Railway in 2009, the scheme was hailed as proof of the effectiveness of socialist brotherhood. Gleaming new Chinese trains were envisaged, whisking passengers and cargo along at 137mph on about 300 miles of track. Hugo Chávez, the late Venezuelan president, called the $800m project “socialism on rails” and said the air-conditioned carriages would be available to everyone, rich or poor.
中國2009年簽署爲委內瑞拉修建「迪納科-阿納科高鐵」(Tinaco-Anaco Railway)的協議時,該計劃被稱頌爲印證了社會主義兄弟情誼的有效性。按照設想,在約300英里長的軌道上,一趟趟嶄新的中國造列車將滿載旅客和貨物以137英里/每小時的速度穿行。委內瑞拉已故總統烏戈•查韋斯(Hugo Chávez)當時將這個8億美元的工程稱爲「鐵軌上的社會主義」,並表示,所有委內瑞拉人,不論貧富,都將可以乘坐這些空調列車。