Venezuela

nivek

As Above So Below
Trump is now saying, according to DailyMail, that he has many options for Venezuela and not ruling out any military options....

Now Trump threatens military action against VENEZUELA as he is pictured in his golf clothes during Friday lunch at his Bedminster clubhouse

President Donald Trump has been spotted looked lain back in golf gear during Friday lunch at his New Jersey clubhouse - before getting back to business as he threatened military action against Venezuela.

Trump, who later changed out of his leisure gear back into a suit, announced to a crowd of reporters he is prepared to take military action against Venezuela following the government's power grab and street violence.

'We have many options for Venezuela. And by the way, I am not going to rule out a military option,' Trump said. 'We have many options for Venezuela.'

Trump sports golf gear before military action threat | Daily Mail Online
 

Gambeir

Celestial
Oh good lord, seriously? Mind our own fricking business for once. Blithering idiots I swear. There's oil there and that's the problem, otherwise they wouldn't care if people were eating babies in Venezuela.
 

Toroid

Founding Member
Venezuela's inflation rate hits 1,369 percent.
Venezuela inflation reaches quadruple digits, hitting 1,369 percent
CARACAS (Reuters) - Crisis-stricken Venezuela’s inflation rate reached quadruple digits for the first time, according to figures released by the opposition-led Congress, which show consumer prices rising by 1,369 percent between January and November.

The legislature, which this year began publishing its own inflation figures after the government stopped releasing them, said prices rose by 56.7 percent in November and estimated that 2017 inflation would top 2,000 percent.

The OPEC member country’s once-thriving socialist economy has collapsed since the 2014 fall of oil prices, leaving millions unable to find basic food or medicine. President Nicolas Maduro blames the situation on an opposition-led “economic war.”

“More hunger and misery is on the way for our already beaten-down population,” said opposition deputy Angel Alvarado, who presented the report.

Economists generally say that a country is in hyperinflation when the monthly rate tops 50 percent for three months or annual rates remain above three digits for three years.

The central bank reported inflation of 180 percent and 240 percent in 2015 and 2016, which had been the highest on record. It has since then stopped providing figures.

The Central Bank did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Maduro says business leaders are arbitrarily inflating prices to destabilize his government. Critics say an unchecked expansion of the money supply has debased the bolivar currency.

Monetary liquidity grew 14 percent in a single week of November, according to official data, its steepest rise since the central bank began keeping records in 1940.
 

Toroid

Founding Member
Mass exodus as thousands of Venezuelans flee the country | Daily Mail Online
Thousands of desperate Venezuelans are trying to enter Colombia in a bid to escape the hunger and soaring crime rate caused by the spiralling economic crisis.

Incredible pictures show the mass exodus of refugees crossing the Simon Bolivar international bridge trying to flee the political crisis threatening to engulf Venezuela.

Colombia - along with its neighbour Brazil - has sent extra soldiers to patrol their porous border with the country after officially taking in more than half a million migrants over the last six months of 2017.

The country is also tightening its border controls in a bid to stem the flow.

The dire economic conditions have led to lawlessness in parts of Venezuela's capital Caracas, with truck drivers subjected to 'Mad Max' violence as looters target heavy goods vehicles carrying food.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5374501/Mass-exodus-thousands-Venezuelans-flee-country.html#ixzz56j8TOSTn
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nivek

As Above So Below
To those Hollywood actors and others who were all buddy buddy with Hugh Chavez and praised his diabolical work which has led Venezuela to where its at now, you people are the scum of the earth for supporting such atrocities...
 

Standingstones

Celestial
The amazing thing is that Venezuela is sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. Yet the country is in total chaos and the government is ripe for being overthrown. I'm sure some large Western country would love nothing better than to get a hold of all that oil.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
Well...

The Venezuelans voted for this government repeatedly over about 20 years. That is how long it took to destroy utterly the richest country in South America.

Admitting refugees with such bad judgment into your country is a bad idea.

The truth about "third world sh*tholes" as a US president calls them - is they are caused by third world sh*tholeans.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Looters take to Venezuela's streets as blackout enters its FIFTH day killing 15 kidney patients as under-pressure president Maduro claims the power cut was caused by an 'imperialist' electromagnetic attack from the US
  • Venezuelans started looting supermarkets in Caracas on Sunday, as power outages reached their fourth day
  • Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido called for a nation-wide march on the capital to pressurise regime
  • The country will enter fifth day of power outages after blackouts crippled infrastructure, shops and hospitals
  • At least 15 patients with kidney disease died after dialysis machines stopped working during power outage
  • President Nicolas Maduro has blamed the blackout on sabotage and cyber attacks from within Venezuela
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Toroid

Founding Member
Looters take to Venezuela's streets as blackout enters its FIFTH day killing 15 kidney patients as under-pressure president Maduro claims the power cut was caused by an 'imperialist' electromagnetic attack from the US
  • Venezuelans started looting supermarkets in Caracas on Sunday, as power outages reached their fourth day
  • Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido called for a nation-wide march on the capital to pressurise regime
  • The country will enter fifth day of power outages after blackouts crippled infrastructure, shops and hospitals
  • At least 15 patients with kidney disease died after dialysis machines stopped working during power outage
  • President Nicolas Maduro has blamed the blackout on sabotage and cyber attacks from within Venezuela
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That country has been a mess for a long time.
 
The amazing thing is that Venezuela is sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. Yet the country is in total chaos and the government is ripe for being overthrown. I'm sure some large Western country would love nothing better than to get a hold of all that oil.
Bingo. The US imposed economic sanctions to destabilize Venezuela after Trump decided to stage a "regime change" operation to exploit their oil reserves:



The US media is now dutifully doing their job - manufacturing consensus for another illegal and catastrophic military intervention in yet another major oil-producing nation.

How many times do we have to watch the CIA/media system invent fake reasons to invade and destroy entire nations, before we wake the hell up to the real and rapacious motives of our corporate government? The US isn't the "friendly neighborhood freedom advocates" that they assert through our compliant and complicit press apparatus - money and the acquisition of resources is the only motivation behind our military actions on foreign soil.

Maduro's efforts to block aid show that he doesn't give a damn about his own citizens.
No - he's refusing "aid" from the US because the CIA uses that pretext to ship in arms to help the opposition stage a coup. If the US actually wanted to help...instead of installing an unelected new dictator favorable to US corporate interests, then they could give food and supplies to the Red Cross and let them provide the aid. But that's not the agenda of the CIA and the US government - our sanctions are the cause of the crisis; we have no interest in the well-being of the Venezuelan people, we only want their oil.
 
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No one's stopping Venezuela from inspecting the food shipments. The allegation about arms shipments isn't plausible.
The CIA has already been caught shipping arms into Venezuela, so clearly it's more than plausible - it's policy:



We've done the same thing countless times in countless countries where we foment a US-sponsored coup. Elliott Abrams (Trump's recently appointed Special Representative for Venezuela) was convicted for withholding information from Congress when he did the same thing in Central America with the Iran-Contra affair (and was later pardoned by GH Bush, because our warmongering CIA/government supports this kind of covert warmongering BS - which is why warmongering CIA spook Mike Pompeo is now our Secretary of State).
 
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