Venezuela’s situation in their up-coming elections is very similar to ours, and things are expected to be tense around election time.
Obamay tries but he can’t be as good as Hugo at destroying a country.
Venezuela is worse than Zimbabwe?
Its going to be the dirtiest, most-rigged election in history (except when Saddam won with 100% of the vote)
Sean Penn needs to go down there and make election commercials for his hero on how to take over more private industry to achieve social justice... Equal poverty for all...
I call bullcr@p on this. Venezuela is nowhere near as bad as Zimbabwe, Haiti, or North Korea.
Any Praetorian Guard want to become the liberator of Venezuela?
Hugo should call Barry to get some advice on fixing the economy.
Hardly mystifying.
"If Communism took over the Sahara desert, what would happen? For ten years, nothing; then there would be a shortage of sand." --old Soviet joke.
But according to our Federal Reserve, inflation is caused by economic growth. How can there be double digit inflation when the GDP is declining?
(The fact is there is no evidence for what the Federal Reserve claims.)
I was in Venezuela for a couple of weeks earlier this summer. It was sad to see. A number of friends told me that it was a good place to work when they were there in the early 2000’s. Unfortunately that was not my experience. Definitely a nation in decline.
Even in our downward trend here in the U.S. we have a long way to go to get to their condition, but I fear that the fall of our current system will be sudden and uncontrollable.
Uncontrollable by the government that is. As Americans we will fight for our freedom and our rights and rebuild what we have lost.
God bless the USA!
Why can’t we hear about this in cuba? It’s time for tariffs on nations that do business with the likes of cuba and venezuela.
If I get a chance to bet, I’m betting that Chavez, that pig, will “win.”
Chavez controls the military and the urban poor. Would he acknowledge an unfavorable vote? Likely not.
Venezuela goes to the polls on Sept. 26... Chavez may be taking on more authoritarian powers, but he also has to defend what the latest data show is the worst economy in the world... gross domestic product in Venezuela will decline by 5.5 percent in 2010. Next worst is Greece, with a 3.9 percent decline... [Venezuela's] GDP will fall by 6.2 percent in 2010... When it comes to inflation, no one is close to Venezuela. Consumer prices are already up 31 percent for 2010 and are expected to rise more by year-end. Only two [other nations] suffering double-digit inflation: India and Egypt, both with 11 percent price increases... as the No. 8 oil-producing nation in the world, the country should be benefiting handsomely...
Read on Twitter a few moments ago that between 60 & 70 MP’s were elected to the opposition. Sounds like good numbers against Chavez.
I suppose the reason they have delayed official results in the election is that they are trying to concot the lie Chavez will tell.