Posted on 07/13/2016 12:28:34 PM PDT by DCBryan1
Venezuela’s Marxist President Nicolás Maduro (shown, left) closed the loop on Monday night, declaring under powers granted to himself by his “emergency decree” announced in January (later to be declared “constitutional” by his hand-picked Supreme Court) that his new Great Sovereign Supply Mission would be run by the country’s defense minister, Vladimir Padrino López (shown, right).
Maduro put everything that moves into the hands of Padrino: "All the ministries, all the ministers, all the state institutions are at the service [of] and in absolute subordination [to the new mission]."
Padrino, the head of Venezuela’s armed forces, now will be in charge of transporting and distributing what’s left of products supplied by the crippled economy, enforcing price controls, and “stimulating” the economy.
A former head of the armed forces commission in the now emasculated congress, Luis Manuel Esculpí, said, “This is now a completely militarized government. The army is Maduro’s [sole] source of authority.”
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Hunger does tend to put idealogies on the back burner.
“Padrino, the head of Venezuela’s armed forces...
Needs to study carefully what happened to Qaddhafi’s chief of the army. (Hint: he got two bullets to the back of his head.)
Word on darknet: stay away from government offices and armed forces bases. If you see any unexplained mass movement/convoys of people who are obviously armed-forces personnel (military vehicles, body armor, assault rifles openly carried) get your ass as far indoors away from exterior walls and windows as you can and STAY THERE until the convoy/group is out of sight. A basement or a high floor on a building is safer than sheltering at ground-level as most shots will generally be aimed at ground-level targets.
Nothing will be done because that’s where this country is headed.
Maduro should familiarize himself with the name Ceausescu
Vladimir Padrino López has small hands.
Actually, they haven’t even run out of other people’s money yet! Rather, the subsidization and government running of various things resulted in impressive mismanagement of what was still available.
People with Dollars apparently can still get what they need, or even want. It’s largely all those “benefiting” from the socialism who are uber screwed ... which is as it should be.
“People with Dollars apparently can still get what they need, or even want. It’s largely all those “benefiting” from the socialism who are uber screwed ... which is as it should be.”
Very interesting comment, right on target.
It’s like the old joke about the Soviet Union: give them the Sahara to manage and in a few years sand would be hard to come by.
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