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Venezuela’s Maduro declares economic emergency
Fuel Fix ^ | January 15, 2016 | | Associated Press

Posted on 01/18/2016 5:34:39 AM PST by thackney

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is using special decree powers to declare an economic emergency in the oil-dependent nation.

The decree giving Maduro 60 days to enact sweeping reform was published Friday in the official gazette just hours before the president is expected to deliver his annual state of the union address.

(Excerpt) Read more at fuelfix.com ...


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KEYWORDS: venezuela
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1 posted on 01/18/2016 5:34:39 AM PST by thackney
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To: thackney

Obama is watching this closely. He’s looking to pick up a few pointers for his last year EOs.


2 posted on 01/18/2016 5:43:45 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: thackney

“...an economic emergency in the oil-dependent nation.”

Silly me, I thought they were oil exporters.

Thank you AP for learnin’ me good.


3 posted on 01/18/2016 5:44:43 AM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: VanShuyten

Obama doesn’t need to import any Cuban thugs.
He’s got the IRS, EPA, etc...


4 posted on 01/18/2016 5:52:17 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: BBB333

They are definitely dependent upon that oil.

That is the source of other peoples money for their socialist utopia.


5 posted on 01/18/2016 5:55:08 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

This emergency has much more to do with undermining the power of the new opposition legislature than any economic issue. He’d be happy to keep the people in misery as long as he is in charge.


6 posted on 01/18/2016 6:26:54 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: thackney

They were in an economic emergency for years. When a country is so far down that it runs out of basics like toilet paper they’re gone.


7 posted on 01/18/2016 6:33:12 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: thackney
"Economic emergency."
Another way of saying the government
wants to steal more from the public.
8 posted on 01/18/2016 6:38:27 AM PST by StormEye
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To: StormEye

Sanders Socialism on display.


9 posted on 01/18/2016 6:43:35 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: thackney

Martial law in 4..3...2..1


10 posted on 01/18/2016 6:56:19 AM PST by circlecity
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To: thackney

So, like our President, Mr Maduro is simply ignoring his new opposition-majority legislature and going it on his own.

This will not result in more toilet paper.


11 posted on 01/18/2016 7:21:28 AM PST by lurk
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“He’d be happy to keep the people in misery as long as he is in charge.”

Just like the Democrats. They don’t care if everyone is in soup lines as long as they are the ones who get to dish it up.


12 posted on 01/18/2016 7:27:28 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: BBB333

“Thank you AP for learnin’ me good.”

If you dont read the AP you’re uninformed.

If you read the AP, you’re misinformed.


13 posted on 01/18/2016 7:35:51 AM PST by Stand W ("Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!"Wlook forward to opening up a can on)
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