Posted on 05/01/2017 12:05:00 PM PDT by detective
It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. Venezuela was going to be a workers' paradise. President Hugo Chávez said so and declared early into his first term, in 1999, that Venezuela and Cuba would sail toward the same “sea of happiness.” Not surprisingly, Venezuela is now a workers' hell. Authoritarian and dysfunctional, the oil-rich yet impoverished South American nation of 31 million people suffers dire food shortages; soaring levels of violent crime (28,479 deaths reported last year); and epic levels of corruption and drug trafficking. Unemployment is soaring – not surprising given that large swaths of the economy have been nationalized. Venezuela's court-ordered seizure of a General Motors plant is the latest such calamity.
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"U.S. Ambassador John Maisto, put the best face on Chávez's hostility toward America and praise of Fidel Castro. “Watch what Chávez does, not what he says,” said Maisto, a career diplomat with an academic bent. Maisto peddled a soft-line approach on Chávez, viewing him as a late-blooming democratic reformer. The so-called “Maisto Doctrine” encapsulated Clinton-era wishful thinking about Chávez"
They drowned in their sea of happiness, huh.
People need the Lord...
Bernies version of socialism is different. Ask any moronial
Interesting - any Muslim jihadis being brought into the mix as well?
Venezuela and Canada have the same population..................
“But, but...it’s not REAL socialism!!!!1!”
I think its all very good and I really don’t care.
Chavez and Maduro are not alien invaders imposed on the country. They are Venezuelans, representing Venezuelan political culture, who were, for the most part, chosen by the people. Its their own fault, really
If we do not believe in globalism, or government “nation building,” then its really up to Venezuelans to destroy their country in any way they see fit.
Plus - the world, including Americans who follow people like Bernie Sanders, who continue to believe in the socialist tooth-fairy, need a constant, ugly, reminder of the evil of socialism. Venezuela, sadly, is providing that for the entire world.
The socialist overlords always make sure they’re the first one’s to get rich and to hell with everyone else. This was all so predictable.
Its been in chaos for years. Its now in civil war. When the dust settles after the civil war has turned the country to rubble, see who the multi-millionaires and billionaires are. That will tell you everything you need to know about Socialism. The literal ruin of a once-wealthy society to make the politically-connected fabulously rich.
It’s been in chaos for a couple years now.
They’re feeling the Bern down there.
Communism leads to that. Not my problem. People who vote left chose this. Let them solve it.
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