Let's talk Venezuela
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wrote on 30 Jul 2024, 19:27 last edited by
Had election.
Maduro... claims he won, but other data says he lost by 75% of the vote to Gonzalez of the opposition party?
Maduro just arrested Superlano, the opposition party's coalition leader?
Civil war imminent.
@jon-nyc I vote your next vacation is there, and plz report back. THANKS!
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wrote on 30 Jul 2024, 19:37 last edited by
Jon's gone all Inca on us. You won't see him in Caracas.
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wrote on 30 Jul 2024, 20:31 last edited by jon-nyc
I actually worked there for maybe 6-8 weeks in 1997. For PDVSA no less, the state run oil company.
My last visit was in the fall of 1998, right around the time Chavez took power. I went there to visit a girl I had been working with in São Paulo (long story). Gasoline was 17c a gallon domestically.
Around then I also spent some time in Bogota. At that time Bogota was dangerous and Caracas was safe. It’s exactly the opposite now.
Something like 20% of the population has fled the country since then. Almost all the people I worked with there fled early, as they had good jobs with multinational corporations.
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wrote on 30 Jul 2024, 23:04 last edited by George K
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wrote on 31 Jul 2024, 13:02 last edited by
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wrote on 31 Jul 2024, 13:43 last edited by
@Jolly said in Let's talk Venezuela:
Yeah, but is it going to be enough?
Exactly. It's very impressive, but I see stories that Maduro is cracking down on the protests and rallies.
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wrote on 31 Jul 2024, 13:50 last edited by
It wasn't in Iran.
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wrote on 31 Jul 2024, 15:40 last edited by
Maduro still has hold in over the army. If he were to lose that control then it’s good night Caracas for him and his regime.
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wrote on 1 Aug 2024, 01:20 last edited by
Hopefully it will work. Reading back on Premier Ceausescu, nobody really predicted that or thought it was possible. (But I think that was more of a coupe than a true public uprising and overthrow).
Sad what is happening to the people down there in Ven.
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wrote on 1 Aug 2024, 01:29 last edited by
Well, at least some of the criminal element is out of the mix.
They're here...
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wrote on 3 Aug 2024, 02:58 last edited by
The US signed a "secret" MOU with Venezuela last May '23 that would reduce sanctions and restore diplomacy IF Maduro held free fair elections.
I guess Maduro just read the part about holding elections. LOL
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The US signed a "secret" MOU with Venezuela last May '23 that would reduce sanctions and restore diplomacy IF Maduro held free fair elections.
I guess Maduro just read the part about holding elections. LOL
wrote on 3 Aug 2024, 12:56 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Let's talk Venezuela:
The US signed a "secret" MOU with Venezuela last May '23 that would reduce sanctions and restore diplomacy IF Maduro held free fair elections.
I guess Maduro just read the part about holding elections. LOL
Nah, he just did a Biden.
A politically expedient big lie, with no intention of doing anything you say.
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@taiwan_girl said in Let's talk Venezuela:
The US signed a "secret" MOU with Venezuela last May '23 that would reduce sanctions and restore diplomacy IF Maduro held free fair elections.
I guess Maduro just read the part about holding elections. LOL
Nah, he just did a Biden.
A politically expedient big lie, with no intention of doing anything you say.
wrote on 4 Aug 2024, 03:14 last edited by@Jolly As a county, Venezuela had a lot to gain if he had followed through. Sad for the citizens of the country.
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@Jolly As a county, Venezuela had a lot to gain if he had followed through. Sad for the citizens of the country.
wrote on 4 Aug 2024, 12:14 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Let's talk Venezuela:
@Jolly As a county, Venezuela had a lot to gain if he had followed through. Sad for the citizens of the country.
I saw a chart indicating that pre-Chavez, Venezuela was the richest country in South America. It is now the poorest.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/venezuela-economic-woes-2017-explained/
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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wrote on 10 Aug 2024, 00:50 last edited by
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wrote on 10 Aug 2024, 01:32 last edited by Jolly 8 Oct 2024, 09:49
When Trump made that statement, was it correct?
Trump's campaign line has been that the border problem has led to increased crime in the U.S., because Venezuela had shipped a lot of their criminals northward. Since they had less criminals, Venezuela 's crime rate had fallen.
