Socialism always starts as a “people’s movement,” with mindless and ignorant people being directed by elitist con men in the background, telling the foolish that by bringing down the “rich,” everyone will share in the abundance that socialism will bring. It is always a lie, and invariably almost all the people end up in poverty, with the exception of the top socialist leaders who live like kings. Fidel Castro is certainly one who has lived that life, and his protege, Hugo Chavez destroyed the Venezuelan economy pursuing the same socialist policies.
When the economy comes crashing down, it is necessary for the leadership to blame an outside source, and when Chavez was alive, he continually named the United States for all of the woes the country was suffering from. In fact, the oil rich country provides 9 percent of the U.S. gross oil imports, which must be a considerable sum of export income to the nation of 30 million people. As such, the U.S. provided a huge portion of the countries income, but Chavez resented that as well.
Venezuela has expropriated foreign and domestic businesses, which means that the people have little invested in the country and are becoming very unhappy with the leadership as it nosedives to complete economic ruin.
For more on the Venezuelan “people’s paradise,” see page 2:
Socialism after the $$$ well runs dry ! Free stuff , welfare , healthcare , this happens when the country spends more than it takes in !! You know kinda like the last 7.5 yrs in America ! Doubling the national debt and still giving $$$ it away faster than we can borrow it !!
That’s how$#%&!@*did it ! Time magazine’s 1938 man of the year a socialist !
Someone kill Maduro and its over!!! USA needs to help countries like this instead of sticking their nose in countries that don’t want or need there help!!!$#%&!@*the Middle East bring the help to our side of the world and let them fucker destroy themselves!!!
Yes Communists always need the boogie man to blame – but they aren’t fooling anyone.
So this is all for the safety of Venezuelans…. right. So was the socialism they were sold on 17 short years ago.
The$#%&!@*we have called the President can’t invade his own damn refrigerator at night much less another country. He’d be too afraid of losing his Nobel Peace Prize.
Wow…
They even tell their people: “…the US will attack soon if they don’t stop rioting…” ???
SO FEW articles are even REACHING THE US!
Most of the US is unaware that 1) Venezuela is Socialist and 2) Venezuela is collapsing BECAUSE of Socialism…
Because the 2 Main Democratic Candidates WANT Socialism for America!
Who has the guns?
You are right, it was the fall of oil prices. 1st they subsidized the oils it cost like $0.35 pet gallon. Then the people figured out the could by truckloads of gas, take it to Columbia and Brazil and sell for a buck. Venezuela was then actually paying to gas up three countries. Venezuela had to put more and more capital towards there gas subsidiaries which left less money for other giv’t controlled operations like electricity and farming. Led to rolling blackouts and food shortages. In short, they turned themselves into the equivalent of North Korea in less than a generation. All hail Hillary, Obama and the socialist democrats for that is yhe course the USA is heading.
You must be a minister or something.