>Troops have been deployed around Venezuela’s capital of Caracas and in ‘every strategic region’ this weekend during the country’s largest ever military exercise.
>The government claims the exercises are in response to the threat of invasion from the United States, but the real reason for the government’s state of emergency declaration is likely much closer to home.
>For over a year now, Venezuelans have been suffering under an ever deepening economic and political crisis.
>Bare supermarket shelves are common. Vital medicines are in short supply. Crime is rising. Blackouts occur daily. To save electricity, the government asked public sector workers to only show up on Mondays and Tuesdays - and this could soon extend to private companies as well. All this in one of the largest oil producing nations on earth.
>Maduro has also made dangerously anti-democratic statements, telling foreign journalists that parliament has "lost political validity" and "it's a matter of time before it disappears."
>With the crisis only deepening, the role of the military may prove significant. With his militarized declaration of a national emergency, the 53-year-old president appears to believe the armed forces will be useful in holding power.
>According to Alexandra Ulmer for Reuters, the military controls roughly a third of ministerial posts, is regularly praised by President Maduro, and has been given control of an oil services company.
>The opposition also believes the army could be key. Reuters reported opposition leader Henrique Capriles as this week claiming he had "high-placed allies" in the army. “I want to tell the armed forces that the hour of truth is coming,” he said. “You must decide whether you're with the constitution, or Maduro.”
Capriles is an American shill, funded by the United States
Jaxson Williams
>“You must decide whether you're with the constitution, or Maduro.” >if you're not with me then you're my enemy
God that was edgy as fuck. Why are right wingers so cringe worthy?
Grayson Morales
Well, you know 100% what's going to happen baring a miracle this country is going to go full gulag best Korea mode.
Also now I'm a Cruzmissile
Brody Miller
THAT ISNT PROOF ITS BAD ITS NOT REAL GOMMUNISM OK :DDD
I LERND IN SCHOOL ITS GOOD EVERYONE IS RICH :P
FKING CABITALISM LOL
Colton Miller
WHOA HOL UP DAT AINT REAL SOCLIZM DAS AINT SHIET
Jose Russell
This is why you don't base your economy around one export. The decline in the price of oil is killing them, and their retarded socialist government makes everything so much worse.
Kayden Richardson
As if your political situation is any better, Brazil
Kevin Mitchell
At least they have food though.
Nicholas Scott
kek
Levi Foster
>The government claims the exercises are in response to the threat of invasion from the United States Kek
hey fascist shitlordz it's true the cia sabotaged the socialist paradise with scanctions north korea vuvuzela and cuba were phosphorus until the cia sabotaged it!
Angel Morgan
oh shit
Nathaniel Thompson
ra-ra-ra-rare?
Ryder Scott
VENEZUELAN CIVIL WAR WHEN
Ayden Cox
viva socialism!
Robert Parker
>77777 Noice
But generally it's because authoritarians have, by nature, a limited degree of mental flexability. In short, they're kinda stupid
Kayden Adams
Maduro thought he could ride Chavez's coattails forever
Ethan Diaz
floridafag here
Can you believe that the Venezuelans and Cubans here are majority for either Clinton or Bernie - a lot for Bernie?
Nolan Hill
>God that was edgy as fuck. Why are right wingers so cringe worthy? >Maduro >A right winger
Why do leftists refuse to get an education? Feel free to educate yourself on the subjects you post on, thumbdick.
Jeremiah Gutierrez
>supporting Venezuelan constitution >right wing
Nigga pls. Just because he's an enemy to the commie in charge doesn't mean he's right wing.
Kayden Brooks
>being this much of a fucking disgusting nigger faggot nigger cuckold nigger nigger cuck homo faggot bastard newfag
Benjamin Murphy
I am by no means a socialist, but the real reason Venezuela is like it is, is because the white Spaniards that ran the country have basically thrown their hands up and handed it back to the Indians. I expect the country to go back to doing human sacrifices within the next 50 years.
A nice look at the future of the US actually, if nothing changes.
Adrian Sullivan
Thats what will happen with countries which economy is based on oil import
Logan Roberts
EQUALITY xD
Julian Jackson
Export you mean
Brandon Ortiz
>parliament has "lost political validity" and "it's a matter of time before it disappears." >Not a right winger Just deal with the fact that your half of the political spectrum includes fascists. There's no shame in it, it's just a fact
Wyatt Miller
Fuck yes. At this rate communist death squads and full scale genocide are only weeks away.
FUCKING SOCIALISM GUYS. It always comes though with the body count.
Michael Murphy
redpill me on why spics love socialism so much? something in the hot sauce?
Zachary Carter
>WHO WILL WIN?
The side with the most & biggest guns.
Logan Scott
IV'E BECOME SO NUMB
Jeremiah Morris
Huh I guess some people would come on the internet and tell lies.
Julian Flores
Look at all that free stuff! Free products for the proletariat! Long live Socialism and Communism!
Jack Wilson
They're following crude prices down the drain.
Christian Ward
Che fucked a lot of hot bitches. Other guys pretended to like socialism to fuck those same bitches.
Then the memes consumed them.
Carson Wood
Oil prices crashed. That's literally their entire economy.
Julian Foster
Maduro, the guy who said that, is a Socialist.
I thought that as well so I went with Maduro because I think the army is going to turn out to be loyal to the Socialists.
Jaxson Clark
What does that have to do with being right wing? Leftists can have dictators too.
Nathan Perez
>tfw communism is dying even in SA
Jeremiah Moore
So not really a socialism problem
Connor Peterson
decades of right-wing dictatorships everywhere
Andrew Mitchell
Yet they tried to do the same here and on Argentina. At least we throw away the red scum.
Nonetheless former president dilma left a hole of 100 billion here
Jackson Ramirez
The guy is openly a Socialist. You might want to get your money back on that community college you went to.
William Young
checked and
lol socialism not even once
Adrian Parker
When communism fails it fails fast and hard.
Grayson Rogers
>BUT SOCIALISM CAN WORK!
Nolan Rodriguez
Socialism = fascism
Alright buddy
Daniel Gray
That should be interesting to see if the army stays loyal. You need to at least keep the army and their families fed and happy to avoid a coup. Seeing that their oil industry is the only lifeline and decaying, my guess is he won't.
Jackson Foster
/THREAD
Elijah Russell
But it is a socialism problem because they nationalized the means of oil production. If the oil was privately owned this wouldn't be a problem.
Christian White
Hey man at least he had the balls to overthrow the red government here. Stay mad with Hillary amerianon
Jonathan Garcia
The extremity of the left is strong government.
The extremity of the right is anarchy.
'Right winger' doesn't mean 'power hungry asshole' like Facebook wants you to believe.
Jason Perez
Daily reminder that capriles is a Jew
Jonathan Morgan
A lot of them have left Venezuela, the ones left are called the right-wing death squads
Venezuela was supposed to be a stable and prosperous American colony, something even Saudi Arabia could achieve. But I guess that shows the flaws of democracy -- the people will vote for gibs and throw away everything.
Aaron Wright
The thing is that Chavez was from the army as well and it is filled with his buddies. I cannot see them defecting.
What are you trying to say?
Owen Myers
So what does this have to do with socialism? Their economy crashes because it wasn't diversified
Lincoln Long
He's going to give them free reign to break into people's houses and steal every morsel of food they have. No TP, unfortunately.
Anthony Flores
The oil economy is nationalized and owned by the government. It absolutely is their fault. Chavez was able to deliver socialized policies like healthcare or whatever, but that was based off the record high oil prices in the early 2000s. It is a completely unsustainable model, and it looks like we are finally seeing the crash.
Socialism & Communism will only work with very small, completely white, non corrupt societies.
Luke Ross
>government mismanages their centralized, planned ecomony >lol what does this have to do with socialism
Robert Morgan
Socialism will never work. Stop trying to push it.
Grayson Thomas
>introduce socialism >country crumbles >this happens x100 >it wasn't really socialism guys! it was this! socialism's great! it just has to be done THIS way!
Because the entire oil industry was nationalised and the gov could seize private land on a whim to use it 'for the people'. That's not a very good climate for investors.
The only good thing to come out of Venezuela is the Torre David.
Jaxson Barnes
Great. It's about time for Venezuela to remove all capital controls in exchange for a loan from the IMF. That way, the chosen few can come in, buy up all the country's distressed assets and enslave the Venezuelan people. I guess socialist nationalism is done. It's time for zio-feudalism!
Luis Anderson
Problem is it's not socialist enough. There are capitalist elements in society still, undermining the people. Once these are gotten rid of, prosperity will return of course.
Ryan Howard
Majority of key technical person of oil industry already left.
Maduro actually don't fuck know how baic economy works so he keeps printing money and don't understand why there are no goods.
Meanwhile daily ocuppstion of private industry because they aren't producing enough. There aren't any supplies, maduro basically destroyed the entire economy, even productive farms were taken by the state just to turn barren soil.
It's communism state of art.
Jackson Morgan
>BUT SOCIALISM CAN WORK!
Grayson Rivera
Left wing economics
Benjamin Lewis
HELLO MIGUEL MIGUEL SI WE GOT BROBLEM HERE
Jack Myers
There are many countries that have an economy based on oil exports that didn't implode like this. It has FAAAAar more to do with demographics, especially in leadership. Their leadership is basically sub 100 IQ now.
Noah Roberts
I think spic countries seem to flip back and forth between radical socialism and radical right-wing dictators. I dunno if they will ever find a balance.
Bentley Lee
>The government claims the exercises are in response to the threat of invasion from the United States What?
Anthony Hall
It's because Socialism is about putting economic authority into fewer and fewer hands and the brains controlling those hands simply do not have the brain power to live everyone's lives for everyone. So they lock the price of one thing in place without being able to calculate all the damages that causes by chain reaction. Before long the whole economy is a fantasy and no one can price anything appropriately. They want something for nothing; that quickly means slavery and revolution.
Charles Diaz
>Europe all socialist democracies. highest standard of living on earth.
>hey guys look at this one third world country that is also socialist! This proves it doesn't work!
Easton Evans
Their economy was already crashing in 2012 with high oil prices. Chavez's nationalized industries are now producing at one third of their capacity.
Oil was 76% of exports in 1999 and now it's 96%.
Jonathan Jackson
This is what Salon readers actually believe
that, and they believe in pedo rights next
Michael Gonzalez
If the oil production was a handful of private companies they would have been producing oil for cheaper because of the competition.
Unfortunately the oil production was a socialist government monopoly and as long as the oil prices were high enough-- why waste effort making the production cheaper?
Given they would still have had production grind to a halt at some point. Canada private companies have been slowing and stopping production as of late. However it wouldn't have been as devastating as they could have competed on the national market for longer.
Blame the Bernie minded and OPEC
Jack Price
Your country is going to be FULL of Venezuelan refugees. It's going to be sooo progressive.
Christopher Thomas
haha
Carson Young
social market economy !== socialism
Hunter Wright
IT JUST NEEDS ANOTHER CHANCE GUYS ITS THE IDEOLOGY THATS NEVER BEEN TRIED
Juan Smith
>Socialism is a mess. Explain Europe.
Adam Ramirez
>Socialism = fascism
Get a look at this uneducated faggot.
A fascists can be right or left wing. This fascist is a socialist. Sorry that you were born with an IQ of 47 and listened to too much Rage Against the Machine. However, that doesn't change what words mean.
Lincoln Walker
wat r u telling me?
Camden Mitchell
no, because under Socialism those white people will not have the proper motivation to breed at replacement to support themselves in old age, and so eventually population will collapse or the uncultured and uneducated will be imported.
Connor Scott
Europe has welfare states, not Socialism.
Alexander Miller
I hope they make it
surely this is US related somehow, putting pressure on them starving them out so they can get another puppet in there (if current is not already one not informed about current state)
Blake Young
>maduro actually claims he talks to deceased Chavez as a bird > maduro slept several times on Chavez tomb
Yes he is pretty mad he probably believe he need to keep destructing any remnant of private property to ensure heaven on earth
Adam Martin
see
Hunter Scott
Oh yes paying 70% of my income to the state just to get 'free' healthcare is such a great standard of living.
Sure feels great to not have any rights either.
Eli Campbell
How putting in charge a literal shill gonna help them if their problems stem from low oil prices? Explain it to me.
Luis Moore
>Europe all socialist democracies False. Many European countries actually have higher market freedom indexes than the US.
Oh I don't disagree at all. I'm just saying the main reason why they went under so fast was because oil prices plummeted. Otherwise they could have stayed afloat longer.
Jayden Morales
Argentina is in the other end of S. America, they're going to receive very few.
If anything its Colombia that is going to be full, the ones coming here will end up in Roraima which is empty rainforest anyway.