Posted on 03/11/2019 9:03:29 PM PDT by janetjanet998
The U.S. will withdraw all remaining personnel from @usembassyve this week. This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in #Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy.
It is now cheaper to use Venezualan Bolivars as toilet paper, than to buy toilet paper with them.
Another triumph of Socialism.
And what does Cuba have to pay them with?
Yikes - that’s been growing for awhile.
That’s pretty scary
The local news radio station has said, at this time of writing, that over 500 stores and facilities across #Maracaibo in #Venezuela were looted in less then 24 hours.
Americans should consider fleeing Venezuela as new sanctions loom, State Department says
WASHINGTON – Americans in Venezuela should “strongly consider” leaving the country, the State Department said Tuesday, and agency officials are trying to facilitate travel arrangements for U.S. citizens who want to flee the increasingly dangerous and unstable situation in Caracas.
https://www.usatoday.com/news/
“Doubt there will be war.”
Said almost everyone just before a war started.
Send lawyers, guns and money. Scratch the lawyers. They am t gonna help.
WTH is Warren Zevon when you need him?! Probably still rotting in a Havana jail (Yeah, I know he’s dead).
#Breaking: just in - An electrical substation in #Maracaibo just exploded and reports of power has been lost in the state of #Zulia #SinLuz
Another long night in Venezuela.
Tomorrow (March 13) House Dems will have a hearing, about potentially blocking the use of funds to intervene in Venezuela:
Hearing on H.R. 1004, Prohibiting Unauthorized Military Action in Venezuela Act, March 13, 2019 4:00 PM
Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building,
The Honorable David Cicilline (D-RI)
Fortunately it doesn’t matter what the Rats in the House do in their attempt to keep Maduro in power. Any US military action in Venezuela will be very quick and decisive and won’t require any additional appropriations by congress.
Isn’t it odd how Rat politicians think it was OK for a democrat president to bomb the daylights out of Serbia to force a regime change in 1999, but they’re opposed to any use of force in Venezuela? That’s the typical liberal double standard, and the usual false propaganda from left-wing politicians.
You are right about having to re-energize small and grow only as things remain stable.
But to do that a lot of engaged switches would have to be opened, and at this point ain’t nobody got time fo’dat.
I’d guess that if the USA were going to conduct a military intervention in Venezuela, key Congressional leaders would have been briefed, before things were put into motion.
This may just be some communist tool trying to gather Intel for them, like Ron Dellums used to do.
Marco Rubio re-tweeted a video clip that showed a gang of Collectivos on motorcycles swoop in firing a few shots, to disperse protesters.
I guess that was the purpose of Maduro’s mobilization order to them yesterday.
One of the commenters on the thread said (in Spanish) that it is the same fifty guys, riding around to break up any protests. If the protesters were armed, it might go differently
Give it time. The protesters will arm themselves in some way and the moto gangsters will have a very bad day.
Yeah we could use him right about now. Oh well. At least we have his music.
more substations exploded overnight
Now Venezuela’s water turns BLACK: Horrified residents wake up to find their taps ‘running with oil’ after week-long power blackout heavily restricted the supply
Residents of San Diego, Carabobo state, woke up to find water running black
Locals said the supply seemed to have be contaminated with crude oil
Comes amid a week-long power blackout that has cut the supply in some areas
Venezuela has the world’s largest crude oil reserves but Maduro has been accused of squandering the resource, ruining the country financially
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6803871/Venezuelas-water-runs-black-local-complain-contaminated-oil.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
China offers help to Venezuela to restore power
BEIJING (Reuters) - China offered on Wednesday to help Venezuela restore its power grid, after President Nicolas Maduro accused U.S. counterpart Donald Trump of cyber “sabotage” that plunged the South American country into its worst blackout on record.
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