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Venezuela president declares emergency, cites U.S., domestic 'threats'
Reuters ^ | Fri May 13, 2016 | Reuters

Posted on 05/13/2016 10:38:46 PM PDT by Dallas59

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency on Friday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.

Maduro did not provide details of the measure. A previous state of emergency, implemented in states near the Colombian border last year, suspended constitutional guarantees in those areas, except for guarantees relating to human rights.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: cuba; hugochavez; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; opec; russia; socialism; socialisthell; venezuela; venezuelacrisis; venezuelaoil
Same blow that Bernie Sanders snorts. The US is coming for us!
1 posted on 05/13/2016 10:38:46 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

Is there an election coming up that he thinks he might lose?


2 posted on 05/13/2016 10:43:57 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Threats? You would think Trump won.


3 posted on 05/13/2016 10:47:34 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Dallas59

Well we know it’s a lie, because this President doesn’t threaten, because when he does they just laugh at him anyway.


4 posted on 05/13/2016 11:16:50 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: aquila48

There is a recall petition. If he can delay it past January he can appoint his lackey VP as his successor so that VZ can continue circling the socialist toilet bowl.


5 posted on 05/13/2016 11:20:05 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Dallas59

6 posted on 05/14/2016 2:14:08 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Dallas59

Starve your people blame your nieghbor


7 posted on 05/14/2016 3:20:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Dallas59

yeah, that’s the ticket.
Though Venezuela has more oil than god, they can’t pay the light bill cause they are such an economic socialist basket case/


8 posted on 05/14/2016 3:35:09 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (500 years ago we had Shakesphere, obammys people live in mud huts still. Go figure)
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To: Dallas59

You knew that somehow this socialist bungler would blame his failures on the United States. It’s been happening at least since Fidel and Che.


9 posted on 05/14/2016 5:03:10 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Dallas59

Self-absorbed losers always seek to blame someone else for their self-inflicted failures.


10 posted on 05/14/2016 5:17:53 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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