http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/14/venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-orders-crackdown-as-countrys/
>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a sweeping crackdown on Saturday under a new emergency decree, ordering authorities to seize factories "paralysed by the bourgeoisie," and to arrest their owners.
>He also ordered military exercises to "prepare for any scenario," a day after declaring a state of emergency to fight what he called "foreign aggression" that he blamed for an economic crisis that has pushed the country to the brink of collapse.
>The move comes after the largest food and beverage company in Venezuela, the Polar Group, halted production of beer, saying government mismanagement meant it was no longer able to import barley for production.
>>74122695
you know what this means
>>74122695
>it was no longer able to import barley for production
Ehhhh.. Wouldn't want to be the guy put in charge of resuming production.
>>74122695
Sociliams of the XXI century is awfully similar to communism of the XX century
>Ramón Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food.
>Through Twitter, Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a “painful reality” that people “hunt cats, dogs and pigeons” to ease their hunger.
https://twitter.com/ramonmuchacho/status/727492503272865796/photo/1
https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2016/05/04/in-venezuela-residents-resort-to-hunting-dogs-on-the-street/
>>74123512
But my perfect infallible version has never been tried!
Jesus fucking Christ. Meanwhile the UN is bitching about something related to the internet again.
>>74122695
Feelin' the Bern.
I will always remember that stupid, naive leftists living comfortable in the West supported this murderous regime even when it was obvious Chavez had a totalitarian long-term plan from the very beginning.
Here he outlines his ideas before his Cuban masters (1994):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G75tVRv2LQo
>>74122695
Just fuck my shit up senpai
>>74124585
>the public applauding in sync with Castro
fucking surreal
This isn't the first time he did this tho
>>74122695
Eat the capitalists!
#feelthebern
>>74125610
the worst was when he nationalized food distribution companies last year.
>Tfw We are trying our best to solve this like civilized people
>Tfw the government wants us all to chimpout
What the fuck man
>>74123512
They change the definitions around to whatever the fuck they want. They try to be shifty so when it inivitably fails they can lay off blame.
>>74126161
Let me tell our story: when Dilma appointed Lula to minister trying to bail him out of investigations, everyone spontaneously flooded the streets against it. You know what labor's unions, student unions and all sort of parasitic organizations did? Schedule their own protest at the same place opposition was at. They wanted blood. Most of the people protesting found this outrageous and wanted to stay, but fortunately the organizers convinced everyone to leave. It was hard to swallow that, but it was for the best at the end.
Fuck off JIDF
>>74126659
In the end we won anyways because the lefties here don't work so they were just doing their shit and didn't affect anyone
Honestly, senpai, given the current state of Venezuelan economy, I'm surprised a state of emergency wasn't declared sooner. There are no simple answers for anything, and this situation is no exception. Their economy has been heavily dependent on oil exports almost since it was discovered in the country, and the current stagnation of demand for that commodity group would have tanked any government that hadn't heavily invested in national development toward a more integral economy. The Bolivarians have been in power for less than two decades—15 years?—and have actually been investing in national development. Their biggest mistake was obviously not putting away a larger cash surplus from oil revenues, but the charisma of their rule depended on popular programs. I would say they should have seen this coming, but they probably did. That aspect of seems more tragic than blameworthy.
All of those troubles taken into account, the recent loss of majority in the legislature, and the precedent set by Rousseff's ouster make this a pretty sensible move for Maduro as a PSUV president. The political history of Venezuela is rife with coups and coup attempts, so I can't see anything unusual in political preparations to fend one off. One is probably coming, after all.
>>74122695
Just nuke everything senpai
>>74122695
Is this going to affect Brasil or no?
>>74127108
No,why would it?
>>74127108
Other than straining relations with the new government, I don't see how. That was slated already, though, considering how the power-shift was brought about and the political alignment of the new regime.
>>74126911
oil barrel was over $90 until August 2014. The Venezuelan economic crisis, of high inflation and shortages, dates back to the end of 2013.
>>74123512
That wasn't real socialism, though. Neither were North Korea, USSR, China, Cambodia, Cuba, Vietnam, or Laos. Real socialism has never been tried, and all failed attempts are just examples of crony capitalism or foreign intervention from capitalistic-owned nations.
>>74127787
>real socialism
What is that even? Most socialists nowadays are free market socialists of some kind no?
I feel bad for a classmate I went to college with who moved back home to Venezuela after graduating.
It's been 5 years give or take, but even then she knew it was all bullshit.
>>74127316
The crash in oil prices has been ongoing for over a decade with ups and downs throughout. I get that there are other factors, but they previously existed as well, and became exacerbated with the drop in oil and the recent trouble with the dam. It's a cascade failure, and its date was only pushed to 2013.
come on, venezuela, do it
i wanna see a big fucking war down there
so shit hits the fan when the beer company stops making beer?
kek
That must be one shitball place if beer was the only thing keeping law and order.
>>74127939
>The crash in oil prices has been ongoing for over a decade with ups and downs throughout.
Never mind, I'm wrong about the time-line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_oil_market_chronology_from_2003
>>74127939
As I said it was over $90 before August 2014. Why do you think the opposition got 49% of the votes in the presidential election the year before? Because it was all going smooth?
They had inflation of 55% in 2013.
>>74128685
See:>>74128408
Double checked briefly after posting and noticed I'd fucked up. Sorry 'bout that, senpai.
>Why do you think the opposition got 49% of the votes in the presidential election the year before? Because it was all going smooth?
Naw, I know the legislature changed hands in December, likely as a response to massive inflation. I was attributing the inflation to the government responding to a loss of projected revenue from state oil sales, which I thought had begun earlier.
>>74129199
yeah this narrative gets pushed a lot. Venezuela was going broke regardless. Bureaucracy must be sustained by the private sector and an ever-expanding bureaucracy will inevitably lead nations to failure. The oil crash just accelerated the process.
Alternative you can send people to concentration camps and essentially enslave them to make such a model affordable.
Must be my Portuguese blood, but I want to invade and "free" you guys.
>>74123885
>>74127787
For all the times this phrase gets spammed, I've never heard someone misuse it like that.
>>74126623
>They
>implying most Western socialists support Mao/Stalin/etc
>>74122695
Notice how this isn't the media panic other situations have been
Why does he share a last name with a tobacco leaf?
>>74122928
>Can't make beer because you literally can't obtain raw materials to manufacture beer
>Government: It is your fault you are not making beer because we will not let you obtain it's most basic component we are taking over
>Party flunky is given job to produce beer without components and knowledge
>Flunky either joins opposition, signs up for CIA or flees nation to save his own life
>Government: It is all the evil Yankee's fault!
>>74122695
>Maduro
is a poor mans Chávez
>>74122695
Why does Maduro think we'd need to influence Venezuela? He's doing a perfect job of destroying it himself.
Like we literally could not do a better job.
>>74122695
To some point the government does need to run things.
>>74124327
fuck the UN
>>74133713
The country was heading there anyway regardless of who ran it. This fucker just had the luck of dying while things were still going good, so now lefties will blame Maduro for destroying the economy, instead of the socialism that drove it there.
>>74133513
This is how the Soviet Union dysfunctioned. Natural and logistical obstacles were always the deliberate sabotage of some identifiable and disposable man. It's like a bad spy movie where the underlings are terrified of informing the villain of bad news.
>>74134181
This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRgBYug5t1A
>>74122695
Literally kill all commies tbqh
>>74134275
Actually it is worse than the USSR, the beer brewing facilities were deliberately shut down by the government ordering it's party members to attack anyone who worked there and denying all the employees access to government benefits. They also cut all access to electrical power to the Brewery and made it illegal for them to use a generator.
>Can't import ingredients to make Beer
>Can't hire workers
>Anyone who works for you gets beat up, prevented from using public transport, denied ration cards and healthcare.
>Cut power to Brewery.
>Prohibit brewery from making it's own power.
>No workers, ingredients or power.
>"YOU EVIL CAPITALISTS ARE SABOTAGING PRODUCTION!"
Fuck, even North Korea can get it together enough to make a decent beer.
>>74123599
>People are so hungry under Communism that they're hunting dogs, cats and pigeons to avoid starving to death
Yet people still fucking want Communism in this day and age.
>>74135210
socialism is the quintessential ideology of the bureaucratic class, which often controls education.
The idea will never die, it must be constantly kept in check.
