Venezuela's President: Trump won't be worse than Obama

Yahoo News! ^ | January 17, 2017 | By JORGE RUEDA

[Brad from Tennessee]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has received a backhanded compliment from the United States' arch nemesis in Latin America.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday night that he is keeping an open mind about Trump and hopes to maintain respectful relations with the incoming Republican administration.

But he said he was certain that whatever geopolitical changes Trump ushers in they won't be more harmful than the policies promoted by the outgoing Barack Obama.

"He won't be worse than Obama, that's the only thing I dare to say," Maduro said on state TV alongside OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo of Nigeria.

During the campaign, Trump denounced "oppression" in Venezuela and accused Maduro of running the oil economy into the ground. In turn, Maduro referred to Trump as a "bandit" and "mental patient."

But the embattled socialist has taken a softer tone since Trump's victory as Venezuela's economy, which largely depends on oil exports to the U.S., has spiraled further out of control and political tensions mount.

"Obama left a legacy that the big media outlets want to hide," Maduro said Monday, referring to the outgoing president's perpetual war footing in the Middle East and his alleged failure in Latin America to more forcefully condemn the removal of leftist leaders in Brazil, Honduras and Paraguay. . .

[Da Coyote]

Nothing in the multiverse is worse than Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch.

Nothing.

As in zip, zero, nada.

[wareagle7295]

What clever wording Yahoo:

” President-elect Donald Trump has received a backhanded compliment from the United States’ arch nemesis in Latin America. “

ummm how about:

“Outgoing President Barrack Obama received an insult from...”

[freedumb2003]

>>”He won’t be worse than Obama, that’s the only thing I dare to say,”<<

That is like saying he will be the best yodeler in Harlem.

[TYVets]

Not much of a complement

[EagleUSA]

Marxist failure comparing someone to Marxist failure.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That’s kind of funny because the Obama administration is full of admirers of the wonderful revolution in Venezuela.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Venezuela Export Partners:

US 26.6%, India 13.7%, China 11.7%, Cuba 6.4% (2015)

Venezuela Import Partners:

US 18.4%, China 15.3%, Brazil 9.7%, Colombia 5.9%, Mexico 4.2% (2015)

—CIA World Factbook

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ve.html

[depressed in 06]

Even Odunga’s friends don’t like him.

[Hatteras]

"In turn, Maduro referred to Trump as a "bandit" and "mental patient."

Too funny. "mental patient"... Doesn't he know that's politically incorrect? LOL!

[MichaelCorleone]

He’s not stupid enough to go down the same road as Angela Merkel. Good for him.

There may be hope for Venezuela yet. Time to buy the Bolivar?

[Redwood71]

This type of comment coming from a dictator of a country that would have already financially melted down if it wasn’t for the petroleum purchases the US make from them. My old man used to say, “Don’t defecate where you eat.” Applies here, Nicolas.

red

[jbrown7.62x39]

Not an unreasonable statement, in my opinion

[HLPhat]

>>Marxist failure comparing someone to Marxist failure.

Comrade Maduro is letting the curtain slip on the nature of Marxist vampirasta's hidden Achilles heal:

Without individuals who can/will actually produce, the "need" of the collective herd inevitably outweighs its "ability" to feed itelf.

Obama's "homogeneous team" and utopian"culture" of progressive leaches have nearly bled the global cash-cow dry.

PIP seems to have become a popular tool to the new generation middle managers for the purpose of a "homogeneous team".  That is, PIP has become an acceptable and common practice to get rid of the "black horse" employee that is typically high-skilled and highly productive, thus at odds with a team of mostly mediocre members (including the manager) and hard to terminate based on pure work performance.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-25/how-companies-are-using-pip-humiliate-and-get-rid-workers?destination=node%2F508730

"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, [Banksters], writers and schoolmasters?

If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola’s.

Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum."

--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816

 

Same Ol'

[jmcenanly]

To refer to Venezuela as America’s ‘Arch-nemesis’ is to overstate their power. They may complain about us, but there is little that they can do to us.

[Laser_Ray]

It is physically impossible for Trump to be worse than Obama as much is it is for a diamond to glitter less than mud.