Venezuelan Brooks Brothers Rioters with their crocodile tears.

I reserve my contempt for the buffoon holding the office of president.
My hope is that the party can put forth a competent candidate that will actually try to solve the country's many problems rather than blame everyone else for the problems that beset the nation.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/06/what-americans-can-learn-from-venezuelan-democracy/

What Americans Can Learn From Venezuelan Democracy
by GARIKAI CHENGU
Wednesday marked the anniversary of the death of one of the developing world’s greatest heroes: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.

In 2002, Washington backed a failed coup against Mr. Chavez’s democratically elected government. Twelve years on, history appears to be repeating itself: the rightwing, which cannot get elected, is trying to depose the elected government with violent protests and Washington’s assistance.

What may have begun as peaceful student-driven protests in Venezuela, have now descended into a crude Washington-backed attempt at regime change.

So what makes Venezuela so important to Washington? Any real estate agent could tell you: location. Given that Venezuela sits atop the strategic intersection of the Caribbean, South and Central American worlds, control of the nation, has always been a remarkably effective way to project power into these three regions and beyond.

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. At the heart of Venezuela’s current turmoil is Washington’s anger that Venezuela’s oil money is going to help its people and not into American shareholders’ pockets. The issue inVenezuela is not democracy, it is oil.


http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/17/venezuela-under-attack-again/#.Uw1hsmRukOY

False scarcity: A double blow of outrageous overpricing of goods plus artificial food scarcity started just as people were beginning their Christmas shopping. Wealthy merchants proceeded to hoard essential goods: corn flour, sugar, salt, cooking oil, toilet paper, etc. placing them in hidden warehouses or spirited off to Colombia through a well-planned smuggling operation. The military discovered an illegal bridge built for motorcycles that carried the smuggled goods. Thousands of bags of foodstuffs were discovered simply left rotting on Colombian byways: this was not smuggling for economic reasons, but for political reasons. The Colombian government cooperated with the Venezuelan government to stop this smuggling

For instance, there's no doubt that the 2002 coup was a CIA operation that eventually failed, thank goodness, and Venezuela does sit on the world's largest oil reserves.

What's not true, in my opinion is that the US is actively working to overthrow the Chavez revolution, the problem is that despite the oil reserves, the govt. has squandered the money through corruption, the inflation rate is at 56% due to the insane monetary policies of the Maduro govt, there are shortages of food and other goods, very high violent crime rate, their infrastructure is crumbling due to incompetence and corruption.

Hell, even the poor are joining in the protests now, the people are tired of slogans and inaction on the govt. to address the problems.

What desperately needs to happen is that a competent candidate from the ruling party defeat Maduro in the next national elections and hopefully start to put the country back together.

a competent candidate from Maduro's party.

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our corporate media spews.

Clearly some work has been invested in research, they are clearly and well written by an intelligent person.

Hope every sane person who sees your post will read every word. They are valuable.

Thanks.

Apologies Of An Economic Hitman

So good of you to post it. Thank you, very much.

Anybody who opposes the banksters and their frontman BHO gets the treatment...

Toothpaste bombs, illegal invasions, etc. Spin, spin, spin. Not a word of truth to it.

The details vary, but everybody with no argument or an argument that nobody will buy, then they try to drag everybody else down to their level.

I mean what is like to have a cause that you cannot defend in open debate? So you have to cheat and lie and resort to violence to get your way. How do you attack and denigrate people who you know are better than you? And then you still think that you are right, you have the moral high ground.

Those are the assholes that make the world suck.

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