Politics In South America

 

Venezuela Has Socialism And Starvation - Comrade Corbyn Keeps Very Quiet About It  [ 12 January 2018 ]
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A shocking video showing a starving Venezuelan mob beating a cow to death with stones has gone viral amid violent protests that have left four people dead. Dozens of men shout 'we are hungry' and 'people are suffering' as they surround the cow in the field, throwing stones at it and beating it with a stick. The helpless animal was slaughtered at the Hacienda Miraflores, in the fishing village of Palmarito in Merida, during a day deadly of civil unrest and looting in the state.
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Maduro produced Socialism while Comrade Corbyn wants to. Did Comrade Stalin say that the dead don't vote? Starvation is de facto policy. But Jeremy Corbyn still cannot bear to condemn his fallen idols in Venezuela

 

Marxist Tyrant Threatens War If He Loses Venezuela Election   [ 4 May 2018 ]
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced that he will take up arms and start a war if he loses the May 20 election to opposition rival Henri Falcón—who, he said, wants to sell the country out to “the gringos [whites] and Europeans.” Maduro made the announced in a campaign speech this week, accusing Falcón, of wanting to sell the country out to “the gringos.”..........

“If someday a government was in power that intended to hand over [our] riches, I would be the first one to raise the alarm, grab a gun and start an armed revolution with the people, if necessary,” he told a crowd of supporters in Vargas..........

Venezuela’s inflation rate, already by far the world’s highest, spiked from 4,966 percent to nearly 18,000 percent in just March and April — a trend that, if it continues, could push the country’s annual rate to more than 100,000 percent by year’s end, economists say.
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So Venezuela is rich but people are starving. Even the Army is hungry. Mismanagement? Try Socialism and suffer the consequences - see Starvation In Venezuela Hurting The Army As Well 

 

Venezuela’s great socialist experiment has brought a country to its knees  [ 25 August 2018 ]
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Imagine if Theresa May suddenly announced that her government was going to devalue the pound by 96 per cent; increase the minimum wage by 6,000 per cent; pay the wage increases for millions of businesses for three months; tie the pound to a mythical cryptocurrency; prepared for petrol rationing; and impose a 0.7 per cent tax on big financial transactions. It would be seen either as an act of lunacy, of a collapsing country — or both.

For the long-suffering people of Venezuela, it’s just the latest stage of their country’s grand socialist experiment.

President Nicolás Maduro has just issued a new currency, called ‘sovereign bolivars’. The original idea was that the currency would be like the old one, but with three zeros lopped off. But then hyperinflation got so out of hand that the government decided on five zeros.

Maduro’s new plan is supposed to be a big economic reset but, on its launch, those who turned up at bank machines found a withdrawal limit of ten sovereign bolivars a day — about 12p. This, they discovered, is only the latest part of what Maduro calls his ‘really impressive magical formula’ to restore the economy. To many Venezuelans, residents of what was once the strongest economy in Latin America, it feels not like magic, only more misery..............

Nationalisations, non-stop borrowing, belief in magic money trees: it can all sound like playground patter in British debates. But a strong enough dose of this formula has reduced what was once Latin America’s most prosperous country to penury. The rhetoric, as always with socialism, is aimed at the wealthy. One of the many morals of the Venezuelan tragedy is that it is the poorest, those who do not have bank accounts, who suffer the most when money dies.
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Reducing everyone to the same level - of hunger - is mad or bad or dangerous or all three. What have the Guardian, BBC and other left wing Propaganda machines got to say about it? Not a lot.

 

Brazilian Politician Is Far Right Alleges The Daily Mail  [ 9 October 2018 ]
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Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has promised to stick to his hard-line right-wing message as he readies himself for the second-round runoff against his leftist rival later this month.

The far-right [ sic ] former paratrooper said he will not suddenly be about 'peace and love' after winning the first round with 46 per cent compared to former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad's 29 per cent..........

Former army man Bolsonaro is a strong advocate of guns, and has vowed to liberalise firearms ownership if he wins the presidency - a strategy which he claims will help combat escalating violence in the country. ]...............

Polls had predicted that Mr Bolsonaro would come out in front yesterday, but he far outperformed expectations, despite having previously made shocking statements on refugees and minorities.

Bolsonaro has called refugees 'the scum of the earth', said he would 'whack' gay men if he saw them kissing and that he would rather his child died than be homosexual.
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Mr Bolsonaro is clearly a sound sort of chap. That is why Lefties tried to murder him. That particular try on will have confirmed his view of the Armed Citizen. We need him too. Of course the Daily Mail is a Propaganda machine, just like the rest of the Main Stream Media. It markets Left Wing tropes to people prone to vote for the Conservatives. They are not stupid enough to believe it.

 

Far-Right Ex-Soldier Dubbed 'Tropical Trump' And Known For His Racist, Homophobic And Sexist Views Is In Poll Position To Become Brazil's Next President As The Country Votes Today   [ 29 October 2018 ]
The Mail's headline is verbatim. The readers are not stupid enough to believe it. Yes, of course the Mail are censoring comments. They know that we know they are liars.

Far-Left Government Makes Venezuela Go Hungry   [ 29 October 2018 ]
But the  Mail is keeping quiet about that. NB losing 24 pounds each in a year is serious.

 

Peru's First Lady Facing Three Years Inside For Taking Bribes  [ 18 March 2020 ]
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A Peruvian prosecutor has requested three years in prison for former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia and two former ministers for alleged corruption in awarding state contracts to the disgraced Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht.

Special Prosecutor Geovana Mori has accused Heredia of leading a scheme to steer a $7 billion pipeline, the Gasoducto Sur Peruano, to Odebrecht in exchange for campaign contributions to her husband, former president Ollanta Humala, and other illegal payments.

Heredia was the scheme’s “leader” and “had the role or function of developing the criminal plans and communicating them to other members of the organization,” Mori has alleged in court filings. More than $3 million in secret payments by Odebrecht made in connection to the Gasoducto Sur project were first revealed in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Bribery Division investigation, published in June 2019.
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Business as usual?

 

 

 

 

Venezuela ex Wiki
Venezuela (/ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə/ ( listen) VEN-ə-ZWAYL-ə; American Spanish: [beneˈswela]), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a federal republic located on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, the Dutch Caribbean ABC islands to the north and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east. Venezuela covers 916,445 km² (353,841 sq mi) and has over 31 million (31,568,179) people.^[3] The country has extremely high biodiversity and is ranked 7th in the world's list of nations with the most number of species.^[7] There are habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rain-forest in the south via extensive llanos plains. Additionally, there is the Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.

The territory now known as Venezuela was colonized by Spain in 1522 amid resistance from indigenous peoples. In 1811, it became one of the first Spanish-American territories to declare independence which was not securely established until 1821, when Venezuela was a department of the federal republic of Gran Colombia. It gained full independence as a separate country in 1830. During the 19th century, Venezuela suffered political turmoil and autocracy, remaining dominated by regional caudillos (military strongmen) until the mid-20th century. Since 1958, the country has had a series of democratic governments. Economic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s led to several political crises, including the deadly Caracazo riots of 1989, two attempted coups in 1992, and the impeachment of President Carlos Andrés Pérez for embezzlement of public funds in 1993. A collapse in confidence in the existing parties saw the 1998 election of former coup-involved career officer Hugo Chávez and the launch of the Bolivarian Revolution. The revolution began with a 1999 Constituent Assembly, where a new Constitution of Venezuela was written. This new constitution officially changed the name of the country to República Bolivariana de Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela).

Venezuela is a federal presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District (covering Caracas), and federal dependencies (covering Venezuela's offshore islands). Venezuela also claims all Guyanese territory west of the Essequibo River, a 159,500-square-kilometre (61,583 sq mi) tract dubbed Guayana Esequiba or the Zona en Reclamación (the "zone being reclaimed").^[8] Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America;^[9][10] the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north, especially in the capital (Caracas) which is also the largest city in Venezuela.

Oil was discovered in the early 20th century and, today, Venezuela has the world's largest known oil reserves and has been one of the world's leading exporters of oil. Previously an underdeveloped exporter of agricultural commodities such as coffee and cocoa, oil quickly came to dominate exports and government revenues. The 1980s oil glut led to an external debt crisis and a long-running economic crisis. Inflation peaked at 100% in 1996 and poverty rates rose to 66% in 1995^[11] as (by 1998) per capita GDP fell to the same level as 1963, down a third from its 1978 peak.^[12] The recovery of oil prices in the early 2000s gave Venezuela oil funds not seen since the 1980s.^[13] The Venezuelan government then established populist social welfare policies that initially boosted the Venezuelan economy and increased social spending, temporarily^[14] reducing economic inequality and poverty.^[18] However, such policies later became inadequate, as their excesses – especially a uniquely extreme fossil fuel subsidy^[19] – are widely blamed for destabilizing the nation's economy. The destabilized economy led to a crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, resulting in hyperinflation, an economic depression, shortages of basic goods and drastic increases in unemployment, poverty, disease, child mortality, malnutrition, and crime.^{[20][21][22][23][excessive citations]} By late 2017, Venezuela was declared to be in default with debt payments by credit rating agencies.^[24][25]