US to withdrawal all remaining personnel from venezuela embassy this week (Venezuela live thread)

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[PapaBear3625]

On national television tonight Maduro issued public invitation to armed paramilitary gangs in Venezuela to take action:.... “the time for active resistance has arrived”

Maduro's hold on power is dependent upon his paramilitary thugs. He no longer has much of anything to pay them with.

[caww]

Anarchy, dozens and dozens of lootings, destructions, fires being lit and assaults reported today. And situation is still ongoing

Super market looted and set on fire..

[caww]

Those are ‘Cuban’ paramilitary thugs paid by Cuba.

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[RegulatorCountry]

No signs of missed meals there.

[OKSooner]

"the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy."

Thank you for pointing out the (now) obvious euphemism.

Good time to keep one eye on the news, one would suppose.

[caww]

10 Family members of Nicolas Maduro and their associates were turned back from the Colombian border. Sounds like they’re on the run!

[OKSooner]

Gee, this was all happening yesterday. Shows how much I’ve been paying attention...

[caww]

Our embassy withdrawal was a unilateral decision of State Dept ‘because’ embassy has no power & local hospitals unable to provide medical services if were needed.

[sparklite2]

Venezuelans are no dummies. They’ve seen how black Americans riot. First, you burn down the grocery stores... It’s not like you’ll need them after the ‘revolution.’

[McGruff]

What's so important about Venezuela?

That is. Right now the Russians control it.

[sparklite2]

Yeah, those aren’t the ‘faces’ of starving people.

[janetjanet998]

sound like the Government is setting him up..will they try to arrest him?

Crisis in Venezuela : the Prosecutor opens an investigation against Juan Guaidó for “sabotage” of the electrical system

[Billthedrill]

10 Family members of Nicolas Maduro and their associates were turned back from the Colombian border.

Ah. End game. Sure would have been interesting to have a look inside that luggage.

[sparklite2]

If by ‘control it,’ you mean actually get it out of the ground, nobody controls Venezuelan oil.

[sparklite2]

All the gold from Venezuela’s
in a bank in the middle of Istanbul
in Nick Maduro’s name.

So, if you’re headin’ to Venezuela,
it don’t matter how many Bolivars you have,
toilet paper’s your train to fame.

[caww]

One way to rule is by administrating scarcity and use the security forces against the unruly. It can work for some time, but not for forever.

[McCarthysGhost]

The stylings of the great Hugo Chavez. Friend to Barack and Hollywood.

[caww]

What they're collecting is storm water (runoff water) which picks up potential pollutants that may include sediment, nutrients (from lawn fertilizers), bacteria (from animal and human waste), pesticides (from lawn and garden chemicals), metals (from rooftops and roadways), and petroleum by-products (from leaking vehicles).

Pollution originating over a large land area without a single point of origin and generally carried by storm water is considered non-point pollution.