Maduro is flailing, trying to find something, anything that will let him stay in power. The word is that he is planning to try and call a constituent convention to supersede the Venezuelan constitution.

Every Latin American country where the right-wing has reached power is being destroyed. Bad with Maduro, much worse without him.

of the imagination be worse without Maduro.

Take a look at what your beloved Macri and Temer are doing in Argentina and Brazil.

You will search in vain for any post of mine where I have ever said anything favorable about Macri or Temer. I am however very familiar with the situation in Venezuela which I have followed with great interest ever since Chavez came to power. After seeing the incredible kleptocracy which he began coupled with Maduro's latest dictatorial flailing intended to trash the constitution I repeat that I do not believe that any government that supplants this ungodly mess would be anything but infinitely better than what we have at present.

Thats what you wanted for Brazil.

Been there recently. Far from the chaos media portrays.

Brazil was fine until your beloved right wingers came to power. Now the people has lost everything, including their pensions.

of Latin America has been a failure. I see your president's approval is almost as bad as Dilma.

That's the only explanation for you calling Lula a "chavista". Read some books, will you?

Lula is a chavista bitch. chavismo was supposed to change Latin America and, thus, the world. It was glorified on this board for years. Look at Venezuela and Brazil now.

In Brazil, are you allowed to run for president if you are imprisoned?

Lula left office in 2010. Why should I blame him for the situation of Brazil in 2017?

When he left office, we had the lowest unemployment rate in history, 40 million people had been taken out of poverty, the minimum wage of the Brazilian worker was multiplied by four, and the purchasing power of the population met its largest growth ever. Brazil was ranked 15th in the list of countries with largest GDPs when he became president. When he left office, Brazil was 5th. 300 children used to die every day from hunger when he became president in 2002. Brazil left the United Nations' Hunger Map in 2014. Lula was responsible for creating a middle class in Brazil. He has nothing to do with the mess that the spoiled brats that didn't accept their defeat in 2014 threw the country in. Until Dilma's victory in 2014, unemployment in Brazil was at 5%. It has tripled since Temer reached the goverment.

And, no, though Lula did a wonderful job as president, he was not a "chavista". His economic policies had nothing to do with Chaves', as well as there's no cultural connection of Brazilians with the Bolivarian ideals - starting by the fact that Simon Bolivar is almost unknown in the country, since he played no role in Brazilian history. Brazil was as far more capital-friendly country, almost neoliberal, in fact, but with a network of social protection. Denying that is denying history. I remember that even you used to refer to Lula as an example opposed to Chávez.

You have no idea of what you're talking about. As usual.

Dilma is.

He was the one YOU were cheering for. And his approval is already WORSE than Dilma's.

Haiti, hands down

Venezuelan homicide rate: 62 per 100,000
Haiti: 10 per 100,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate


Haiti Inflation Rate 13%
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/haiti/inflation-cpi

Venezuela-about to hit 1,500%
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/13/inflation-in-venezuela-seen-hitting-1500-in-2017-as-crisis-goes-from-bad-to-worse.html

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Who else has horrible food and medicine shortages?
Who else has the worst inflation on the planet?
Who else has a murder rate higher then Caracas?