tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post2626766485233919077..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Chavismo: from XXI century socialism to XXI century fascismDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-57693413638188832013-05-01T05:44:25.316+02:002013-05-01T05:44:25.316+02:00This post was written at least a day in advance to...This post was written at least a day in advance to today's assembly beatings... Quite a pitoniso!<br />LuisFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-30295366030327141902013-04-30T13:30:43.749+02:002013-04-30T13:30:43.749+02:00Only when the subsidies that Chavez gave to the mi...Only when the subsidies that Chavez gave to the military are cut because under the Maburro budget, these are unsustainable, will the corrupted military take action. They have become very comfortable. I fear that will lead to a consolidation of the commercial power of the nouveau rich Boliburgueses with the State,leading to a true nationalist fascism under Cabello. More likely, they'll take inspiration from Orwell's Big Brother and cut some sort of benefit, food rations, state state education funding, foreign debt service,infrastructure 'maintenance' to a group they have disenfranchised while broadcasting and printing announcements they increased the allotment by some fictitious number they consider credible. 6% seems to be one of those magic numbers. Or, perhaps the Cubans will overplay their hand as Satraps, and order the Venezuelan military to support another of their misadventures such as Angola or the Granadines. That will surely put the lunacy, the monomania, the narcissicm, the ego mania, the vindictive fanaticism of the Cuban leadership in the limelight. Then their proxy will rebel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-80739602917060458652013-04-30T07:03:48.658+02:002013-04-30T07:03:48.658+02:00My friend in Caracas reports that in the weekend p...My friend in Caracas reports that in the weekend places where there would normally be people partying and enjoying themselves, there was no one. It was like a "ghost town" She also reports that dead people lying in the street are a daily sight. Presumably this is not a normal situation. To me this seems like a societal breakdown or has it been like that for a while?Ross11https://www.blogger.com/profile/00042514465092675618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-84975236008211915422013-04-29T17:05:52.310+02:002013-04-29T17:05:52.310+02:00"firepig"
That is good news.
I hope t..."firepig"<br /><br />That is good news. <br /><br />I hope that they would be so stupid to make such a move. That should be the last straw to convince the fence sitting military to defend the constitution and Venezuela from the cuban invasion.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-32232864321927178942013-04-29T15:41:56.941+02:002013-04-29T15:41:56.941+02:00Anonymous 9:26,
pissed...in Caracas there has be...Anonymous 9:26,<br /><br /> pissed...in Caracas there has been quite a turn around in the barrios...many are against the government now.<br /><br />firepigette<br />firepighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15158275219887987252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-20721127484367839422013-04-29T03:59:02.685+02:002013-04-29T03:59:02.685+02:00Correa is trying to help Maduro by mixing into Ven...Correa is trying to help Maduro by mixing into Venezuela's affair, this can only mean that Corres knows that Maduro is weak and he needs CubazuelaMargarethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-69650954927864778592013-04-29T03:56:46.828+02:002013-04-29T03:56:46.828+02:00When you heard the rumour about castro moving to V...When you heard the rumour about castro moving to Venezuela, was it perceived as a good thing, or were they pissed?<br /><br />Moving here now would be a step down from cuba. Couldn't immagine that being true, but this a strange place in the middle of a strange world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-11930610031945538472013-04-29T02:37:42.592+02:002013-04-29T02:37:42.592+02:00It wouldn't surprise me if Raoul has had the m...It wouldn't surprise me if Raoul has had the master bedroom in La Casona which he had decorated complete with Cuban flags and Che pictures for several years. Will Maduro now literally get into bed with Raoul? Or has it already happened?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-36670844540014287182013-04-29T00:39:12.351+02:002013-04-29T00:39:12.351+02:00Interesting, do you have any more about the rumor?...Interesting, do you have any more about the rumor? If I was there I would gladly buy them all many rounds of Polars so I could hear the whole story. Also, I have found that the more Polar I drink the better my Spanish is and the better their English. Kinda like the translator worm in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galexy. Oh wait, worm, that's Tequela or was it Mescal? <br />Regardless, these are the people most at risk from government policies!Rogerhttp://www.llanera.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-8684828135758497452013-04-28T23:39:27.791+02:002013-04-28T23:39:27.791+02:00Clearly the brutish tactics are due to the fact th...Clearly the brutish tactics are due to the fact that there is neither a centralised power, and more importantly, nor is there a centre-point that can manipulate all the strings so elegantly as the ex-Comandante. <br /><br />Given the in-fighting of the Chavist camp, it will be interesting to see if it suffers the same purges and counter-purges that so marked the Russian and French revolutions. One can only hope, especially if the guillotine is the weed-whacker of choice!<br /><br />I fear that the golpistas can only be ousted through overwhelming public protest and violence. They have the high-ground; not the moral rather the strategic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-8646027436676104492013-04-28T23:38:33.081+02:002013-04-28T23:38:33.081+02:00Well, that's interesting.I just talked to some...Well, that's interesting.I just talked to some people from the barrios who said there is a rumor going around that Castro was going to be moving to Venezuela and govern both Venezuela and Cuba from there.<br /><br />firepigettefirepighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15158275219887987252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-37075887928617519772013-04-28T23:14:51.214+02:002013-04-28T23:14:51.214+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-28069926802570090112013-04-28T20:33:00.858+02:002013-04-28T20:33:00.858+02:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuunWb2ssvM&fea...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuunWb2ssvM&feature=youtu.besydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-58009973306712894072013-04-28T19:49:08.918+02:002013-04-28T19:49:08.918+02:00It is odd that a "government" that makes...It is odd that a "government" that makes so many accusations with zero proof is demanding proof in order to end their reign. As if maduro himself admitting stuffing the boxes would make a bit of difference. Cuadernos de nada LOL Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-62049733611717179802013-04-28T19:42:50.353+02:002013-04-28T19:42:50.353+02:00The best first cut of Chavismo history I've se...The best first cut of Chavismo history I've seen. I suspect it will have legs.<br />HalfEmptyhttp://www.rantburg.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-33993166129737449862013-04-28T19:19:19.625+02:002013-04-28T19:19:19.625+02:00To me the best point in the Wiki you quote is this...To me the best point in the Wiki you quote is this. Child quoted Mussolini as saying, "The sanctity of an ism is not in the ism; it has no sanctity beyond its power to do, to work, to succeed in practice. It may have succeeded yesterday and fail to-morrow. Failed yesterday and succeed to-morrow. The machine first of all must run!".<br />In fourteen years of Chavezimo, NOTHING has worked! Even the windfall of oil money has decreased both by decreased production and ever increasing corruption. Even the youth who have grownup in this don't buy it.<br />Regardless real change and social success must come from the bottom up. For as Bolivar said "These South Americans are ungovernable".Rogerhttp://www.llanera.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-35028920659158096262013-04-28T16:44:32.883+02:002013-04-28T16:44:32.883+02:00I meant surrendering in its stricter sense: after ...I meant surrendering in its stricter sense: after a long courting when Chavez thought he was controlling the situation alone, he surrendered to the Cubans after 2002 events when he lost trust in Venezuelans and realized he could not do it on his own. He decided then to put his fate in a close alliance with cuba, including personal security and hospital room.<br /><br />I agree that 2004 may not be the actual date when this happened, but it happened. Do not forget that until 2002 he had Miquilena and JVR working for him, managing his intrigues, and their own. At least as long as these two were around Fidel had not the sway he got later.<br /><br />Let me put it in other terms: Fidel was probably the major inspiration but be truly had to wait for the Misiones until he was able to start running the show himself.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-43833347469031760602013-04-28T15:14:58.630+02:002013-04-28T15:14:58.630+02:00Bravo, Daniel, for this summary, which focuses bri...Bravo, Daniel, for this summary, which focuses brilliantly on the hallmarks of what's been happening, politically, in Venezuela, for the past 14 years.<br /><br />But, have issue with Chávez surrendering to the Castro-Cuban influence after his survival of the 2002-2004 instability. It's not as though he hadn't visited Cuba, before he was first elected, in 1998. I frankly think the Cuban-Venezuela nexus was simmering on the back burner, long before 2002-2004.<br />sydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-52939103515249925322013-04-28T14:40:59.046+02:002013-04-28T14:40:59.046+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.lz1zephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12954171729928245591noreply@blogger.com