Posted on 01/10/2019 2:27:20 PM PST by detective
In Venezuela, the main thing we hope and watch for is the whole disaster ending. The people are starving. The aid is not getting through. The oil is gone. The cocaine is out of control. The terrorists are running wild. The torture has started. The oil infrastructure is collapsing. The currency is rotten, with inflation in seven digits. The corruption tops Mobutu's. The country is selling itself out like a raddled street whore to hostile powers in exchange for military weapons and foreign troops to base there, and getting itself into deep-dive debt. Millions are fleeing. The neighbors are angry.
Disasters always do end at some point. But as in the case of Cuba, which incidentally runs Venezuela, that could be a very long time. So the natural thing is to watch for the cracks forming, to watch the opposition for a critical legislative maneuver or, more likely, a Venezuelan Spring – to watch the neighbors, to watch the military, to watch anyone out there who can force some kind of change in the hellhole.
You know that dictator Nicolás Maduro, who just swore himself into office for another term after a fraud election, is busy torturing troops and their relatives. So it certainly leaped out to a lot of us that Maduro's defense minister, Vladimir Padrino (perfect name for a mafia-state functionary, given that "padrino" means "godfather," and Vlad, well, you know...), reportedly told Maduro behind closed doors, but not beyond U.S. eavesdropping capacities, that he needed to step down and get the hell out.
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Tomorrow’s News today:
Venezuelan Defense Minister found dead of apparent suicide.............
IOW, We paid him to do it...............
I’m sure Maduro has a few shekels stashed away in a Swiss bank account. Pretty good for a bus driver turned dictator.
Yep, someones gonna wake up with a Colombian necktie...
The Cubans run the show and Maduro made them look bad with his comic banana republic dictator impersonation.
He’ll go quietly or be executed like Hazifullah Amin.
The oil is gone. ...
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Really? Gone from the ground or gone from the surface?
“Venezuelan Defense Minister found dead of apparent suicide.............”
Yep, one of those “shot himself in the back of the head twice and cut his own throat before expiring” suicides.
His family is worth billions—always the case in a dictatorship. I am sure he has that stashed somewhere.
Not bloody likely.
The infrastructure has all broken down and has been vandalized
Socialist countries ALWAYS double down on socialism, and they never ever change peacefully. Do not expect a change unless there is a major population reduction...
I wonder, what part of ‘dictator’ does he not understand?............
He probably has it stashed in Miami and the dimrats will protect him. They love dictators.
The defense minister does not seem to be working from a position from much strength, if his sole threat is really his own resignation. If the DM and/or military officers can force Maduro out, that is one thing. But for DM to simply threaten to resign (which has yet to occur) does not suggest that Maduro has lost power internally.
Yep, he won’t last a week.
He’s asking nicely. Next time he won’t be so nice.
This will not end well—lots of folks are going to die.
Looks like they are about to go “Full Pinochet”.
Hopefully a lot of the ones that deserve to.
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