>Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro decided Tuesday night to shorten the work week to two days -- Monday and Tuesday -- in an effort to save energy and electricity. The country's most important source of electricity, El Guri dam, has record-low water levels.
>Maduro had previously announced earlier in April that all Fridays through May would be holidays for public sector employees. Now Wednesdays and Thursdays will also be holidays for public sector workers at least until the end of May.
>According to Venezuela's statistics, there are roughly 2.6 million public sector employees, which represents about 20% of the country's workforce. It's still officially unclear if Venezuelans will be paid for all five days of work or just two days.
>Venezuela's economy shrank 5.7% last year and it's projected to contract another 8% this year. Inflation in Venezuela is estimated to rise nearly 500%, according to the IMF's latest projections. Its currency, the bolivar, is worth less than a U.S. penny on the black market, where most Venezuelans exchange dollars for pesos.
>Maduro is taking drastic measures to save electricity. This week his government began a schedule of rolling blackouts in much of the country. Caracas, the capital, is excluded from the blackouts because the federal government is there, and some tourist destinations will be able to keep the lights on. Hospitals won't be affected, according the government
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/27/news/economy/venezuela-2-day-work-week/index.html
Good goy, you don't need any days off. You need to make money for your Jewish Masters, uhh I mean the job creators.
>>72240512
This is what bernie the filthy jew wants here in America
>>72240512
>irrelevant shit nation is going through troubles yet again
>>72240790
> It's still officially unclear if Venezuelans will be paid for all five days of work or just two days.
>>72240882
Communism...next time it will work
>>72240512
Look at the wonders of Socialism.
Just spread this shit on social media.
Show these anarcho-communist-nihilists what their bumfuck retarderd ideology does to countries.
that's why we need fusion
>>72240814
imbecile.
>>72240984
>impling this isnt a worst case scenario
>impling this is 100 percent socialism
gotta hold that narrative line for dear life!
>>72240512
>tfw have a friend that lives in venezuela and I'm worried about him
>>72240943
inb4 it wasn't true communism
I SWEAR THAT SOCIALISM WORK GUYS LOOK AT CUBA AND VENEZUELAN!
>>72241126
Do you know the phrase "democrat socialist" was originally coined by a one Joseph Stalin?
Good goy!
>Third world shit hole discovers oil
>Temporarily things look good
>Price of oil collapses
>Back to shit hole.
They should have discovered low corporate tax rates like we did. That never loses its value.
the pity is that there are all of these people who will be going into poverty but the country is too violent and unstable for there to be any sex tourism for these impoverished cuties
>>72240512
>tourist destinations
how much is a 10/10 escort down there these days? 1 loaf of bread?
if you've ever met Venezuelans it is really obvious why their country is complete trash: because the people were to begin with.
Venezuelans are lazy, have no concept of time or work, and want everything handed to them.
>>72241238
Sanctions.png
Argentina and Venezuela had similar crises.
Venezuela picked a left wing government to solve it. It failed and everything is shit and collapsing.
Argentina picked a right wing government to solve it. It failed and everything is shit and collapsing.
Conclusion: the prices of commodities are more relevant than any ideology
>>72241126
This, you raging faggot, is 100% socialism and it is standard case scenario, but go on lecture me on fucking socialism
>muh scandinavia
>>72240512
I should take a vacation to Venezuela and keep the lights on in my hotel with the window open all night so the peasants miles away can appreciate it's comforting glow.
>>72241496
correct me if I'm wrong, but Argentina isn't anywhere near as bad a Venezuela atm, right?
>>72241496
Endogenous IQ > prices of commodities > ideology
>>72241888
Austerity began literally 1 month ago
Give it time and we'll be
>>72240512
They're still working harder than France.
http://www.cato.org/blog/venezuela-reaches-final-stage-socialism-no-toilet-paper
Commies do it again
>>72240512
Venezuela is really fucked.
I bet they'll blame the american for the electric crisis, they did it once.
>>72242009
so in reality, while we know Venezuela's left wing government has failed utterly, it's soon soon to say about Argentina's right wing government.
>>72241372
probably about as much as a good German girl in 1946
>>72241449
Venezuela's economy has been falling apart for a while now. Half of the Government (The Presidency and the Supreme Court) is made up of criminals who regularly traffic drugs using the National Guard and military. The National Assembly can't get shit done because the other two branches of government suppress everything they do. Crime rates are obscene and have only been getting worse. Caracas has the highest murder per capita rate in the world and kidnappings are a common occurrence.
That's not even to speak of the downward spiral that Chavez' socioeconomic policies have caused. All the farmland has gone to waste for years. There's barely any industry to speak of. Most of Venezuela's economy has relied on oil exports in order to function. That was all fine and good when oil prices were at an all time high during the War on Terror and such. Now oil prices have dropped through the floor and Venezuela is feeling the pain. Massive inflation and food shortages coupled with aforementioned crime and corrupt government have created a powder keg.
Full blown civil war is imminent. As bad as that sounds, it'll be even worse than what you imagine. Their proximity to Colombia will make for an incredibly messy conflict. Colombia has been in a state of constant civil unrest bordering on civil war for decades. Communist guerillas and Anti-Communist militias who are both armed to the teeth come to blows constantly and it WILL spill over the border if the Venezuelan Government collapses.
>>72242047
I want to see their entries on the Argentine crisis?
>>72242152
It is failing already... hundreds of thousands are being laid out, the economy is projected to shrink, and inflation will be like 50% yearly
>>72241496
Argentina is still far better off then Venezuela.
They fucking voted Chavez for until he died. They couldve fixed this years ago but they haz teh dumb.
>>72242361
(yet)
>>72241228
if they have any qt girl family members tell them to cam whore and marry some american beta then bring their family over
>base your entire economy around oil
>oil price collapses
>economy collapses
>has bigger oil reserves than saudi arabia
>can't even keep the lights on
>>72242203
all the top think tanks are having events on Argentina lately like panel discussions with Macri admin officials
there is a lot of optimism, but there is concern that reforms will take time to deliver results and the negative momentum of the economy from the previous govt. will be blamed on the new administration
argentina has a lot of resources and potential to be rich as fuck
>>72242152
I think he'll do fine. We were in a technical default and went through 12 years of rampant corruption and deception. Our current president cannot fix this in a few months, but he's taking the right steps.
Of course he has to deal with the remnants of the former government who are trying to cause unrest because that's how peronists are.
Either way at this point what anyone can tell you about Argentina is merely speculation, that much is certain. Nobody knows what will happen at all.
>>72242250
>inflation will be like 50% yearly
That sucks.
Know what the inflation in Venezuela is?
500%.
>>72240512
It's good to know we were not dumb for once and started throwing the pinkos out before we ended up reaching this point.
>>72242688
>negative momentum
What negative momentum? The economy grew 2.5% last year according to the new government itself
2 day work week. Fucking perfect haha
guess the venezuela guy is done posting here
>1 in 5 Venezuelans work public sector
>>72242412
In their defense, South American "Democracies" are often anything but what they're called. So-called Presidents are more akin to Dictators. Chavez appeased the upper class for a long time by keeping oil prices in-country very low and capitalizing on the West's ravenous hunger for oil. The rapidly evaporating middle class have been paralyzed by crime for quite some time and that crime has kept them fearful of any changes to the status quo. Considering the Venezuelan Government's close ties with criminal elements they were gridlocked. Then there's the election rigging, the outright bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court, and so on.
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela rode the Venezuelan people as far as they could. Now they're being bucked. Instead of just falling off they're digging their spurs in harder. It's not going to end well.
Pretty sad tbqh
You didn do nuffin to deserve this shit, you wake up, go to your shitty job and get back too tired to enjoy anything anymore, not like you could afford anything anyway despite breaking your back
just the lottery of life i guess, being born in a shithole like Vuvuzuela.
Or Poland.
>>72243001
It was pretty much just like that here as well. The former gvmt hired "ghost" employees who were militants for their party that wouldn't even show up to work and still earn their salary.
Macri fired most of them and now leftists are in suicide watch. Of course it increased the unemployment index, but it was false employment anyway.
>>72242450
Got some more?
>>72243166
>It was pretty much just like that here as well
Nope, the numbers are way off, Argentina didn't have anything close to 1 in 5
>>72242672
like canada
>>72243210
Unfortunately I don't have any statistics to back my claim, you're probably right. But the fact remains that just like in Venezuela our public sector was incredibly bloated.
>>72243025
>the entire pre-kebabocalypse EU was open to him
>life is hard
>>72241338
and?
>>72241668
>proof by assertion fallacy
got more?
oh right, scandinavia, yeah look at that super high standard of living, HAS to be the capitalistism in their economies to blame for that
>>72243571
it's the Whiteism
>>72242184
Holy shit, that sounds bad. We really need that wall up ASAP so we don't get millions of refugees flowing in.
Mexico should build a wall to the south too. They're retarded, but they're our retards.
Venezuelans and Colombians are a different breed. Mexicans will cut your grass, Colombians will cut your face off
>>72243679
indeed
wait, so socialism CAN be successful?
>economy shrank 5.8%
>inflation at 500%
The penalty for disobedience.
>>72243847
Of course it can. Homogeneity and maximum of 1 person participating and it works a charm.
>>72244042
which scandinavian nations have a population of only 1?
>>72243847
only in homogenous White countries with high IQ
you let in other ethnic groups and you are going to have a bad time
>>72241496
True to some extent. Once commodities fell, all economies reliant on them were fucked. It would be very difficult for a government, left or right, to fix the issue. Literally the only way to survive at this point is using up savings (if not nonexistent), taking loans, austerity measures and privatizing public services and institutions until commodities raise again.
That said, during Chavez's administration, Venezuela went from having oil as 70% of its exports to having oil as 95% of its exports. So he was responsible for Venezuela getting hit so hard by oil prices now.
Moreover, neither Chavez nor Kirchner were big on saving money (like Right Wing governments usually are), and they could have diminished the effects of the current crisis had they saved money (and also invested in Power Plants in Chavez's case) instead of using up all their money on social programs.
Note that Evo Morales is also a so-called Socialist, but he did save money during the commodity boom, so now he has the one country in South America that still looks like it can economically grow.
>>72242450
heh
>>72244152
I've heard the neoliberal globalist narrative before, I would really like to hear the actual narrative desu.
>>72243571
For fucks sake, Scandinavia works so well because they're almost entirely white. Whites are more empathetic and more likely to put the need to help others for the greater good over the need to "get mine" and steal from the system.
This comes from thousands of years of evolution where whites in Europe had to be empathetic and work together in order to survive because their biggest threat was the cold. It was beneficial to be empathetic to someone out in the cold because he could help the group grow stronger and survive the winter.
In other parts of the world, those groups of humans evolved to be more corrupt, manipulative, and distrustful because their biggest threat were other tribes of humans. Empathy has no value there. Empathy gets you killed.
The colder the group of whites, the more likely they are to be extremely empathetic and more likely they are to be willing to work together in a socialist society working towards the greater good for everyone, not just themselves.
>>72241496
Who controls commodities prices?
I don't know exactly, but I know it's not "the free market."
>>72241228
Gay marry him for citizenship
>>72240512
>It's still officially unclear if Venezuelans will be paid for all five days of work or just two days.
Why the FUCK else would they shorten the work week?
>>72244966
You have to finish the first sentence of OPs post to get to that part, burgerbro. It's to save electricity. They are so unproductive it literally costs more to turn on the lights than they produce in a day.
>>72244476
Depends. In the case of oil it's the OPEC, more specifically the Saudi cartels. It's not always the jews.
>>72243818
Mexico already has a wall to the south.
>>72241888
Argentina is slowly getting out of a shithole, we were headed to where Venezuela currently is with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Macri may not be the best, but he is certainly way better than Kirchner.
>>72240512
>Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro decided Tuesday night to shorten the work week to two days
>Inflation in Venezuela is estimated to rise nearly 500%
so their wages are gonna double?
why can't we have socialism too?
>>72243571
It IS capitalism in their economies you fucking dumbass. They got rich before 1950`s and then they implemented socialist elements. They are rich in spite of socialism. I love how Scandinavian socialism is against everything Sandinistas espouse - strongly homogenous, nationalistic, with high civic duty awareness, has one of the lowest corporate taxes in the world and extremely free market.
Get fucked, I was raised in socialism and I even know how does it smells - everywhere the same.
From Jewkipedia
>>72245822
I really hope Argentina pulls through.
>>72242184
> The next hot spot in the world.
> tfw me, my friends, and peers were wrong with it being somewhere in eastern asia.
Fuck me, we all overlooked South America to fucking hard.
>>72245798
senpai that fence is so flimsy/short/unmanned it's practically the same as the US-Mexico border.
Look at the India-Bangladesh border or the India-Pakistan border instead.
>>72245632
How resistant is OPEC to outside influence? Aren't most of those ME petrostates literal protectorates of the US? I've heard the narrative about what happened in the 70s, with the "OPEC oil embargo" but do they still have the same influence now as then? Didn't they have the USSR on their side back then?
And I wouldn't say "Jews" it's probably a but more complicated than that (or maybe it isn't, I really don't know).
>>72245798
Fake picture, m8. The Mexican Guatemala border is tropical climate and dense with plants. Your pic is a desert
When Venezuela get its shit together?
>>72246338
Hahaha, we can all burn together.
>chile is embracing socialism too
When will they learn?
>>72246123
Ihope so too, I like my country.
Sad thing is, during Kirchner's 12 year long leadership, society political stance became extremely polarized between Anti-Kircher (or just 'K') and Pro-K.
She used similar tactics as Maduro does, she points fingers at the USA or UK and blame them for our declining economy, calling them Imperialist colonizers, etc. Add some 'muh malvinas' sensacionalist speech. and she won over half of the silly population calling themselves the 'true nacionalist folk'
Now that she's off power, there's a lot of hidden and corrupt shit floating up.
>DUDE! COMMUNISM IS ACTUALLY WORK. LOOK THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. VENEZUELA HAD FREE FOODS, WHILE THE DOMINICANS ARE LITERALLY DYING IN THE STREET FOR A PIECE OF BREAD. HUGE DIFFERENCE, HUH?
brazil should buy both.
>>72241126
I bet you like up your ass.
>>72240882
>resource-rich nation being run into the ground by socialist government
FIFY
>bern niggers will defend this
Its going to shit all right, soon we will be living like apes.
P.D. send toilet paper
>>72247385
hmm I'm curious will amazon ship down there
>>72247385
>send toilet paper
I'll send my shit and pajeets instead.
>>72247219
but your cunt really is shit, and venezuela only surpassed its shittyness recently
>>72240512
It's because of the CIA drinking all the water.
>>72247559
But the Dominicans are starving to death. Apartheid Capitalism has failed.
>>72247375
Hillary shills think that is going to meme.
I'm no socialist supporter, but you faggots are just as bad. You can't even make fun of the fucking commies right.
Also the monthly wage most of the worker gets is equal to 12$ thanks to exchange control and black market
>>72247760
stfu canacuck
>>72247385
Lol no just ask chavez for some.
>>72248009
Lol i know chavez wasnt paid that little haha.
>>72245948
yes, if good, then capitalism, if bad, then communism or socialism
i.e. maintaining the narrative by any means
>Get fucked, I was raised in socialism and I even know how does it smells - everywhere the same.
anecdotal fallacy
>>72244393
>oh, its not socialism succeeding there, its whiteness
yes, that is a PART of it
but wait, if it IS socialism, shouldnt it be failing no matter what?
im confus
How do you have the largest proven reserves of oil in the world, and still be broke?
>>72248009
How much does renting a flat costs there? What is the price for a kg of rice in dollars?
Holy shit, $12 is very little money how do you not starve?
>>72240512
So what does it really mean ? You have enormous amounts of oil, but people living in the fucking desert can live better off of it than you.
Venezuelians confirmed worse than sand niggers, good job
>>72248271
>>72248376
get fucked bernout
hope you die nigger
>western socialists whining about their utopia online in the comfort provided by capitalistic societies
>>72248493
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-food-idUSN2734134020080429
This article is from eight years ago. Chavez proved incapable of fixing the problems he created. After his death, the PSUV have not been able to fix those problems either.
When oil is your only export, and you give all the farmland away to poor people with no farming skills, there's not going to be a lot of resources left once the price of that oil drops significantly.
>>72246338
ever played mercinaries (the video game)?
everyone knew this was going to happen, it was just a matter of when and how. The only surprising thing is that instead of fighting over oil, everyone is collapsing due to oil deflation
>>72241094
Thorium LFTR
>>72241126
>>impling this is 100 percent socialism
>muh socialism has never been tried
I hope you are lined up and shot by men in MAGA hats
>>72243818
>We really need that wall up ASAP so we don't get millions of refugees flowing in.
Not if God's chosen people in the U.S. have a say in it !!!
>>72240512
MSAG"A"
>>72249759
Continued .....
>>72241126
(You)
How did south america get so leftist anyway?
>>72251728
Subversion.
>>72251728
Cold War proxy shenanigans.
>>72240814
Not really but ok.
>>72241238
>>72240943
Epic strawman
I want Venezuelans to stop invading my country
t. dominican
>>72241338
Not true as far as I've heard. Sounds like propaganda.
>>72243679
>>72244393
>le cold winter makes you superior meme
Not only do you know nothing about geography (Europe isn't the coldest part of Earth), but you know literally nothing about primitive societal structure. Sharing resources and cooperating are almost universal in such traditional societies.
>>72245948
Scandinavia was actually very poor until the mid 20th century.
>>72242184
Pretty much this
>>72247219
Cuba is better off by a million miles compared to Haiti or El Salvador.
>>72253291
No it wasn't.
>>72252546
I want Dominicans to stop invading my country.
t. Puerto Rican
>>72248912
>capitalistic societies
Which rely heavily on social democratic elements.
Too think we were so close to ending up like that.
Based Macri will make Argentina great again.
>>72240512
>mfw it's pre-Thatcher Britain on steroids
>>72248570
With a dollar you can buy two or three kilos of rice, or a kg of meat or chicken, food is pretty cheap in dollars because our local currency its becoming more a more devaluated
>>72253551
>rely
only niggers, the poor and unemployed rely in welfare and "free" healthcare
with no incentives to work towards a better life, a socialist society will degenerate, like what is happening right now
you retard bernouts aren't ones to speak about socialism, you're typically THE niggers receiving welfare
>>72240512
>could have been oil rich regional economic power
>went the just fuck my shit up path
kek, first they came for the toilet paper
>>72253072
alaskan native here. cold will bring people together. it's a survival strategy. one builds one hunts one makes fire and cooks.
>>72240512
>Inflation in Venezuela is estimated to rise nearly 500%, according to the IMF's latest projections. Its currency, the bolivar, is worth less than a U.S. penny on the black market, where most Venezuelans exchange dollars for pesos.
>>72240790
this would be awesome if it happened in a small rich country, but Venezuela is fucking beyond thunderdome now
>>72253291
Norway and also Scandinavia used to be the most capitalist and protestant countries in Europe. It wasn't until the 1950's we implemented social democracy. And we did it mainly to appease the communists.
>tfw Venezuela is one of the world's biggest oil producers
This is what happens when you don't mass kill communists.
>>72240512
Socialism, hell yeah!
>>72248376
It is. It's falling apart as we speak. Scandinavian society is literally unsustainable, it has only coasted so far because of great wealth created decades ago when Sweden was ruthlessly capitalist.
>>72245822
Godspeed, hermano
>>72240512
If the people shit, they can use that to generate electricity, ask the Indians for advice on that front.
kek. Or solar, wind turbines, this ever factor into the retarded spic land's minds? They have lot's of sunshine in Latino America, are they by the sea or not? I forget were Venez is, use tidal power if you're near a coastline.
You're welcome!
>>72254579
You don't need mass killing. Communists fear the samurai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEx7uCFX_nA
>>72242184
If Brazil can get out of our mess soon, we will be able to keep the venezuelan civil war from growing too much, and we will be able to protect the South American Borders
>inb4 Brazil is shit
Just ask paraguay :^)
>>72242782
How's Brazil faring since the impeachment happening.?
>>72247559
But Panama isn't that better than us, you are just fairly better because you have all that tax heaven's money, and outside of the downtown of Panama, everything else is pretty shitty.
>>72255657
Impeachment didn't happen yet. Our senate still needs to vote, and the current president of the senate is a Dilma supporter, and he is doing everything in his power to delay the impeachment. It shall happen around september though
>>72253422
But not better than DR, not by now.
>>72247740
Don't you get tired of trying to force your shitty meme, you haitian shill?
>>72241238
RARE
>>72240512
That's what happens when you try "democratic socialism" while keeping the captains of capitalist industry in power: hoarding and smuggling goods abroad to create artificial scarcity while the U.S. props them up.
I saw President Nicolas Maduro at a grocery store in Caracas yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Place your bets. Civil War in 2 years, more or less?
>>72256505
Also, they literally stole BR infrastructure that, and given how cuck our government is, we did NOTHING
Be Venezuala, Elect Commies, Nationalize oil.
Shit goes to hell exactly as predicted.
>>72256737
I forgot about this pasta, you had me going and i remembered.
>>72256353
Uncommon
>>72244393
>MUH WINTER
>MUH WINTER MOTHERFUCKER
This fucking meme
>>72254798
The single most based japanese guy EVER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOQb7Y5QVO8
This shit is fucking nuts.
>>72251728
memes from European Dispora.
Also globalization
>>72241496
Fuck off you fucking kirchnerist nigger.
Argentina is currently shit because it's been only 4 months of right-wing government after a devastating 12-year period of left-wing plundering.
>>72240512
Communism does it again!
>B-B-BUT THATS NOT REAL COMMUNISM, F-FEEL THE B-B-BERN!
>>72254134
My point was that cooperative social strategies aren't unique to Northern Europeans.
>>72254579
Pinochet pls go
>>72257696
Nice meme.
>>72254798
is there anyone who doesnt fear the samurai?
>>72258266
pinochet did literally nothing wrong
>It's still officially unclear if Venezuelans will be paid for all five days of work or just two days.
Doesn't matter, they're paid in meme money. Median wage is really worth around 20$.
