tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post4163621124543382504..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: So? Can we all agree on the D word?Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-2151909021964528492016-10-21T01:58:52.437+02:002016-10-21T01:58:52.437+02:00Well, I hope you continue with your blog and keep ...Well, I hope you continue with your blog and keep posting information as well as ongoing events in Venezuela. Quite interesting for an outsider looking in. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-61455029244961587322016-10-19T11:30:00.222+02:002016-10-19T11:30:00.222+02:00Darren is American.Darren is American.Kathy from Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12899687122742970796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-32463985824115270492016-10-17T23:44:55.783+02:002016-10-17T23:44:55.783+02:00And your country is?
And your country is?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-65620031995240858652016-10-17T02:01:11.594+02:002016-10-17T02:01:11.594+02:00All elections lead to elected dictatorships. Elect...All elections lead to elected dictatorships. Elections are farces whose only purpose is to legitimize the govt. They help govts control us not the other way around. Ponder Comrade Stalin's words on elections in the USSR:<br /><br />"Here, in our country, on the contrary, elections are held in an entirely different atmosphere. Here there are no capitalists and no landlords and, consequently, no pressure is exerted by propertied classes on non-propertied classes. Here elections are held in an atmosphere of collaboration between the workers, the peasants and the intelligentsia, in an atmosphere of mutual confidence between them, in an atmosphere, I would say, of mutual friendship; because there are no capitalists in our country, no landlords, no exploitation and nobody, in fact, to bring pressure to bear on people in order to distort their will.<br /><br />"That is why our elections are the only really free and really democratic elections in the whole world.<br /><br />"Such free and really democratic elections could arise only on the basis of the triumph of the socialist system, only on the basis of the fact that in our country socialism is not merely being built, but has already become part of life, of the daily life of the people."Darren Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-59596769546557822252016-10-16T21:51:01.667+02:002016-10-16T21:51:01.667+02:00Good post. Now you have to figure out if you leave...Good post. Now you have to figure out if you leave the country, submit to a life as a slave, or fight. If you plan to fight don't tell anybody. And don't let them capture you alive. The Cubans have been teaching them how to torture real good. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-42155274422010254572016-10-16T17:47:29.353+02:002016-10-16T17:47:29.353+02:00I think it was a dictatorship since the time the r...I think it was a dictatorship since the time the regime broke the law and used public funds to run its election campaigns. From that point on it was just how much did they have to shiw of the dictatorship in order to accomplish what they wanted. Sure now in days they have to display a full blown dictatorship in order to accomplish their goals. I think they have lots of cards to play yet. They will lift price controls, start using more usa currency and begin to implement a level of military anti crime and provide basic medical. The end plan is provide a Cuban model of subsistance that people can live with after having lived such hell.Canadian Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04392005954549946976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-9450006901428028242016-10-16T17:20:43.112+02:002016-10-16T17:20:43.112+02:00I agree with Charly, the time for D word is gone a...I agree with Charly, the time for D word is gone already, it's time for F word - or mabye even SS (Syria, Somalia).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-10586519233089581772016-10-16T16:48:35.196+02:002016-10-16T16:48:35.196+02:00I go with the "K" word. Kleptocracy. Or ...I go with the "K" word. Kleptocracy. Or "NK': Narco-Kleptocracy.<br /><br />Of course Vzla has been a dictatorship of sorts for a long time. But a disguised dictatorship, tropical style. These days, you have disguised dictatorships as in Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other European small countries, or in Africa and Asia. You have very few openly dictatorial regimes left, as in North Korea, Cuba, Rwanda..<br /><br />Now they disguise their despotism, tyranny, concentration of power in various ways.. they allow for some travel, some independent press, a bogus "congress", bogus elections.. they try to attend international 'democratic' meetings, etc. But if you google the word 'dictatorship' it's quite clear.. <br /><br />Nowadays the preferred, trendy term is "authoritarian government".. That's how democratic yet twisted governments (USA, Spain, France, Uruguay, etc) manage to do business with horrible Tyrannies like Cuba or Cubazuela.<br /><br />But the most accurate word is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy.<br /><br />Venezuela is not a classic, full blown Dictatorship. It certainly ain't no Democracy, nor a "Socialist" Republic.. It's an arroz-con-mango, but above all an anti-constitutional, authoritarian, corrup narco-military regime. Corruption and Money rule. Masburro and Cabello and all the other Chavistoide Crooks are still in power because Millions are Stealing Millions of US$ and Euros every week. The filthy military, the putrid TSJ, the police, Sebin, Guardia Nazional, they all still support the failed regime because of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.<br /><br />A Kleptocracy, of the tropical type, more than just another disguised dictatorship. That's what it is. Sledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10963609943524453700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-86733585539252990662016-10-16T07:48:59.014+02:002016-10-16T07:48:59.014+02:00Can we all agree on the D word? No, this is behind...Can we all agree on the D word? No, this is behind the times. The word is the F word. Not what you think but F for Failed state. A few days ago, the collectivo La Piedrita instructed the CICPC to clear 23 de Enero until they got the green light to patrol the barrio once again. Between the collectivos, the FARC rear guard, the ELN who is all over the border with Colombia all the generales narcotraficantes, this country is slowly sinking to the level of Somalia. Watch if they will not start hijacking ships along the coast of Venezuela pretty soon. Over the last few months, the fiscalia has ordered SEBIN to release several prisoners and SEBIN has not obeyed these orders. Why? Because these prisoners have to pay a ransom first. Apparently it is very hefty, somewhere between USD 500k and a cool million. Little states within the state. For the first time, I heard something in public tonight: "In order to get rid of Chavistas we have to kill them". Looks like people are slowly building a thick skin, welcome to the new Colombia.Charlynoreply@blogger.com