Venezuela’s Problem Isn’t Oil—It’s Government - Abigail R. Hall Blanco
"Sorry to disappoint John Oliver, but the problem isn’t the drop in oil prices; it’s the Venezuelan government. Let’s talk about what the government of Venezuela has done." And if you want to see John Oliver's turnip twaddling, you will need to click through, and read it there. Heh. Hat tip: Some Links - Cafe Hayek
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Venezuela Drifts Into New Territory: Hunger, Blackouts and Government Shutdown
Socialism always ends here, it's just a matter of when. Venezuelans are now left with the revolting reality that unless they Il Duce Señor Maduro, Venezuela will fall into utter chaos, and depravity. One man versus tens of millions, this is not a difficult decision. Oh, and keep the photos, we've seen them before. Photo after the jump. Bridgestone abandons crisis-wracked Venezuela after 62 years
Venezuela has finally turned the progressive blue model corner, and it is now nothing more than a Venezuelan mincer, slowly mincing poorer Venezuelans, and will soon be mincing middle class Venezuelans. It is madness to believe that socialism, progressivism, or any of the other variants will ever end in anything other than total destruction of the nation hosting these parasites. Good luck to the people of Venezuela. You will need it. A devastating look inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals
Do you want to know? I don't, that's scary! Hat tip: Instapundit . . . anti-riot police beat and torture people because . . . fun!? This cannot go on forever, and so at some point it will stop. Then the backlash will begin. Good times, good times! Venezuela is so broke is does not have the money to pay to print money
. . . and leaves me nonplussed! Venezuela's economic disintegration hit a sad milestone this week
. . . if it wasn't, Maduro would have been treated to an Il Duce necktie long ago. Venezuela risks a descent into chaos
. . . and Maduro is the goat. "At the main morgue of central Caracas, the stench forces everyone to cover their nostrils. “Now things are worse than ever,” says Yuli Sánchez. “They kill people and no one is punished while families have to keep their pain to themselves.” Ms Sánchez’s 14-year-old nephew, Oliver, was shot five times by malandros, or thugs, while riding on the back of a friend’s motorcycle. His uncle, Luis Mejía, remarked that in a fortnight three members of their family had been shot, including two youths who were shot by police. An economic, social and political crisis facing Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s unpopular president, is being aggravated by a rise in violence which is prompting fears that this oil-rich country risks becoming a failed state. “What can we do?” Mr Mejía asks. “Give up.” The morgue employee in charge of handling the corpses notes that a decade ago he received seven or eight bodies every weekend. These days, he says, that number has risen to between 40 and 50: “This is now wilder than the wild west.” Critics say that the Venezuelan government is increasingly unable to provide citizens with water, electricity, health or a functioning economy which can supply basic food staples or indispensable medicines, let alone personal safety. Last month alone, Venezuelans learned of the summary execution of at least 17 gold miners supposedly by a mining Mafia, the killing of two police officers allegedly by a group of students who drove a bus into a barricade, and a hostage drama inside a prison at the hands of a grenade-wielding criminal gang. On Wednesday, three policemen were killed when an armed gang busted a member out of a lock-up in the capital." This is now past simple failures like lack of toilet paper, cooking oil, and flour, it has move on to the next stage, murder, rape, and lawlessness. I would hope President Obama is watching this. But with our feckless President one can only hope. Once Venezuela collapses, the civilized world, will have only a short time to move to help whatever government is left to regain order. If we wait too long, the outcome will look more like Libya. We really do not need a metastasizing morass in South America. Socialism is a many splendored thing . . . Now is the time for serious US diplomatic action, mostly behind the scenes. I rue the day Americans reelected President Obama. Venezuela Takes Permanent Three-Day Weekend
. . . it has driven the country with the largest energy reserves in the world into energy poverty. "The Venezuelan government, facing a deepening economic crisis, rampant hyperinflation, widespread shortages, and an escalating political crisis, has decided to give everyone in the country Fridays off. As Bloomberg reports: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has designated every Friday in the months of April and May as a non-working holiday, a bid to save electricity as a prolonged drought pushes water levels to a critical threshold at hydro-generation plants. The country will unveil details of a 60-day plan to conserve energy Thursday, Maduro said, adding that measures would include asking large users such as shopping malls and hotels to generate their own electricity for nine hours a day. Heavy industries operating in the country will be asked to cut consumption by 20 percent, he said." Brilliant. List of countries by proven oil reserves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Proven reserves" is a bit of a canard. "Because proven reserves include oil recoverable under current economic conditions, nations may see large increases in proven reserves when known, but previously uneconomic deposits become economic to develop." Proven reserves also require the political freedom to develop, and drill for the oil, so America always ranks low because so much of our oil reserves remain under federal lands off limits to oil production, or in the offshore continental shelf , or Alaska which are also off limits to production. Back to the many wonders of Socialism, of which the primary seem to be the democidal murder of tens of millions of people. Perhaps its time for a Dead Pool on when and how many Venezuelans will need to die to propel the "revolution" forward for another year? It looks like the economy is about dead. How much longer before even the poor rise up in revolt? Well at least they will have a three day weekends now to scour the land for toilet paper, cooking oil, and flour. The ability of the Socialist economy to provide for the people is unmatched. |
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