Posted on 04/19/2018 8:30:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Venezuela arrested two Chevron employees in Caracas Monday on trumped up charges of corruption.
On the surface, the act looks just plain insane: Venezuela's oil industry has cratered into a heap of rubble. Production of oil has fallen to 1949 levels, and five-digit inflation is destroying the value of the currency. Those two events are related: some 25,000 highly skilled state oil company employees have walked away from their jobs, unable to stand working for worthless currency that won't even buy them a cup of coffee.
Oil is responsible for 90% of Venezuela's export earnings and pretty well finances the Chavista government. The only hope this disastrous oil-collapsed country has left for any reprieve is in its foreign investors, such as Chevron. Even the Chinese and the Russians, who had been Venezuela's great white sugar-daddy hope, aren't touching them. There's just Chevron and a few other companies, hedging their bets that the Chavistas won't last by their willingness to wait them out.
And now Venezuela is arresting them.
Suicide? Naaah. Last year, the Chavistas, in a good imitation of what their Iranian and Cuban allies do, took a U.S. hostage. He was a Mormon kid from Utah who fell in love with a Venezuelan woman and foolishly agreed to visit her in that country. For his trouble, he got arrested and thrown into in a Chavista dungeon, where he remains to this day, a sad hostage to the dictatorial regime of Nicolás Maduro. The motive for the senseless arrest was to use the kid as a bargaining chip for the two nephews of his wife, who were busted by the Drug Enforcement Administration in Haiti for big-league drug-trafficking while actually living in the palace household.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
El Salvador didn’t have an MS-13 and massive refugee exportation problem when they were under one of those mean right-wing juntas either.
Russia, China Flee Venezuelan Refineries Fearing Imminent Collapse.
The Limits to Russia’s and China’s Support of Venezuela.
Link: https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2018/01/15/venezuela_maduro_chavez_russia_china_112682.html#!
A bigger concern, IMO, is how Iran and Hezbollah have infiltrated Venezuelan government at the highest levels and in turn use Venezuela for military reasons disguised as humanitarian.
Russia, China and Iran in Venezuela.
Link: http://gulagbound.com/54884/russia-china-and-iran-in-venezuela/
Link: https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/iran-russia-and-chinas-central-role-in-the-venezue
No idea how many are coming to the U.S.A.,
But i’ve read reports of folks in other countries surrounding this socialist utopia are more than fed up with their scum coming.
Oh, he understood. But the left is constitutionally incapable of admitting they were wrong. I have engaged with quite a few, with exactly the same response....it is almost like arguing with robots all running the same program.
And when I think of morons like Glover and Penn running down there and making out with the pig Hugo while trashing America.
Arm the civilians, a couple of million ak47s and a few thousand sniper rifles. Take out the Venezuelan Air Force and army choppers
The problem will solve itself.
Yeah, but we need a permanent presence in a place sitting on so much oil, or Russia or china will fill the void.
Not being able to admit they have ever been wrong does indeed seem to run deep.
Not long ago I posted this (snippet) in another thread:
Every so often I suggest that what is really involved with the Clintons in particular is not just that they don’t accept the evidence that can be given but that having backed these people then, they have backed them now and forever and what is really at stake for the Left is that they cannot accept that they weren’t right to begin with.
Their pride demands that they were and are right, not just those old enough to have initially supported Clinton but also all of those that generation has mentored and taught and so forth.
They cannot be wrong and so the aren’t. QED. That is why Bill and Hillary no matter their abundant foiables must be the most brilliant and the most deserving ... to the point that it took a black man to somehow be more Historical than the triumph of the Clinton Supporters over all Clinton Naysayers.
And of course what is true of the Clintons is true of their attachment to the Party of the Clintons too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3647152/posts?page=29#29
“Yeah, but we need a permanent presence in a place sitting on so much oil, or Russia or china will fill the void.”
No, we need to stay out of the place and make clear to the Russians and Chinese to do the same.
The Venezuelans need to determine their own future for better or for worse.
Snippet = insightful!
We need a low yield nuclear bomb strike on the Parliament building. Blame it on the Iranians trying to sneak a bomb into the US.
Mueller is starting to take hostages: White House Employees Arrested on Trumped Up Charges.
Without constant vigilance we are within a generation of the same situation as Venezuela.
Hey...Venezuela, do you know what 47,000 Marines and Sailors look like coming ashore....Keep this shit up and you will, because this is the sort of thing that would get you introduced to the II Marine Expeditionary Force, real F’n fast.
I would suggest that you let the American’s go...NOW!!!
This is President Trump with General Mattis as the Secretary of Defense, not President Odufus and his lame a$$ SECDEF sidekick A$$ Carter...
There will be consequences and repercussions....Your military is NO position to try and defend you...You will lose and we will replace you and your $hithole government, count on it.
What it must be like to be Venezuelan doctors watching their patients die for lack of basic medications, hanging in themselves and also hoping for regime change, is all too easy to imagine. Those patients are hostages as well. At its last stage - Zimbabwe reached this - the entire population is hostage and the ransom is an unending supply of foreign aid that goes into the pockets of the same thieves responsible for the disaster. Collapse is not imminent, but suffering is inevitable. And fools in the United States still defend socialism.
Chevron dancing with the devil gets consumed.
Sort a like Starbucks and the left.
This is the first step to taking over Chevron and other US companies.
I’m willing to bet a lot that they are not US Citizens. They may not be from Venezuela though. Chevron has a huge gang of green card / H1B types in Houston b/c they are relatively cheap and willing to live here for cheap.
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