Let's talk Venezuela
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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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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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Well, at least some of the criminal element is out of the mix.
They're here...
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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
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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
@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.
@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.
@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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Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
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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.
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@George-K said in Let's talk Venezuela:
@jon-nyc said in Let's talk Venezuela:
Now do Great Britain.
You mean the first Islamist state with nookilur weapons?
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