Posted on 05/26/2016 9:14:29 AM PDT by navysealdad
Venezuela is in the midst of a stunning social, political, and economic collapse. The country of 30 million people is facing dire food and medicine shortages, frequent power outages, serious political unrest, the world’s highest inflation rate, rampant violent crime, and one of the world’s highest murder rates. Earlier this month, Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, declared a state of emergency.
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Gee, who didn’t see this coming?
Was it a “dream” of Venezuelans or just the Venezuelan government?
As soon as we elected George Bush I could tell that he would cause this collapse!
When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved Socialism.
Vote Bernie - wipe your butt with a leaf.
Venezuela was a socialist country before Chavez, and had the resulting economic problems. Chavez convinced them that their problems were caused by not-enough-socialism and that their economy should be run by him. Purer, more corrupt socialism was what he promised and what he delivered, and drove Venezuela into the dirt.
He died, and his deputy has tried to stay true to the vision, delivering even more socialism and even more corruption, and the result is what you see.
well worth reading and thanks for posting
> How Venezuela’s socialist dream collapsed into a nightmare
If you punish the productive, you get less stuff. It’s not complicated.
Actually, sadly, it was a dream of Venezuelans. I remember his original coup attempt, and the enthusiasm with which they looked to him to solve all their problems.
He was a rock star from that day forward. For them, yes, he destroyed the country, but he meant well. And he really loved the poor.
Chavez is dead?
WOW !!
I thought it was just an, Unsuccessful Recovery.
Chavisimo, Obamisimo, Clintonismo, Sanderisimo, Warrenismo, What ever you call it, it always ends the same
Make American Venezuela Again (for the first time), Bernie 2016!
One brand of toilet paper is better than many.
Zero brands of toilet paper is better than one.
They can always move to Jonestown, Guyana. I hear that’s a socialist paradise.
The collapse commenced the moment they chose the Chavista socialist path. It was inevitable. Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!
Just one: the grape kind.
socialism always ruins a country destroys it like socialism has destroyed Venezuela which was prosperous with capitalism
Now Bernie sanders a socialist might win .Sanders will do to the USA what Chavez did to venezuela
TRump made a mistake helping sanders
They’ve achieved “income equality” - nobody can afford anything.
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