Venezuela

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Venezuela is most certainly the most under reported story of this century so far.

To see a country that was doing very well, had plenty of everything, freedom, opportunity and was the most advanced in most ways of Latin America slide into totalitarian poverty and in a short time is biblical. And most people have no clue that this is even happening.

In the top video, the commenter, who has his heart in the right place, has his analysis based on personal speculation. he is quite wrong about socialism and the causes of Venezuela’s demise.

It was more because of socialist thought than providing for its citizens.

Yes, the kind of support it offered was unsustainable and in a small way a part of socialism. But providing for some needs of a civilization is also just that. Civilization. If providing for some needs is socialist than the Colonial British who went into India and other countries during the Colonial era were full blown commies.

No, the reason Venezuela is a shade better than hades now and maybe just a shade less pleasant to go shopping in, is socialist methodology. False notions of fairness and enforcement of systems that cannot work. Expropriating food distribution companies like Polar, and when that failed, the expropriation of actual food producers like farms.

Communists always do this and it always results in the same end. No food.

Zimbabwe, South Africa is well on its way, Ukraine under Stalin and so on.

This story is a much better example of why Venezuela’s socialism is destroying the country and creating suffering on a scale probably not known before in that nation.

Socialist Venezuelan Leader Steps Up Arming of Supporters After Outlawing, Confiscating Civilian Guns

The socialist leader of Venezuela announced in a speech to regime loyalists his plan to arm hundreds of thousands of supporters after a years-long campaign to confiscate civilian-owned guns.

“A gun for every militiaman!” Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said to uniformed militia members outside the presidential palace, Fox News reported on Tuesday. The Bolivarian militias, created by Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chavez, already number in the hundreds of thousands and are being used to supplement the regime’s armed forces. Maduro is boosting the number of armed supporters in hopes of keeping control over the country from what he labels “imperialist aggression.”

The arming of Maduro’s supporters comes five years after Venezuela’s socialist regime outlawed the commercial sale and civilian ownership of firearms. Only the military, police, and groups like security companies can buy guns and only directly from one state-run arms company under the law passed in 2012, according to the BBC. The country recently doubled down on its gun ban through a combination of gun buybacks and confiscations in the summer of 2016.

That article is a much better example of socialism. Its not about providing needs and support so much as about using all the force you can to make sure one ideology is allowed and any other thoughts about social structures, even more than economic ones, are crushed.

Here is my interview with a Venezuelan expat from three years ago about this exact subject:

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11 Replies to “Venezuela”

  1. Valenzuela was one of the richest nations in South America, then the communist took over and destroyed the nation like it always does, now Marxists in other South American nations are working to do the same thing to the rest of South America and the President of Brazil is allowing the Moslems to come in to take over the continent. Those of us who are seeing the coming civil wars in Europe think that once they start Europe will be chaos, the South Americans will wish that they were living in Europe because it will be much better then what is occurring in South America.

    • “Those of us who are seeing the coming civil wars in Europe think that once they start Europe will be chaos, the South Americans will wish that they were living in Europe because it will be much better then what is occurring in South America.”

      Too right, Richard! Europe has a lot better infrastructure and (until just recently, Merkle) not much in the way of an underclass that would get up on its hind legs during times of unrest.

      South America has no such “safety net”. When the chaos starts it will get very chaotic, very fast. Plus, most of the South American cultures have very little in the way of European-style aversion to violence. All of which makes for a witch’s brew of outcomes.

  4. “Venezuela is most certainly the most under reported story of this century so far.”

    I’m not so sure about that. The deafening silence about 0bama’s malfeasance during his time in office is neck-and-neck with any under-reporting about Venezuela.

    That said, why on earth would the press wish to hush up about a Socialist dictator’s spectacular immolation of a once-wealthy, oil-rich Third World nation? After all, from 1928-1970 it was the world’s biggest petroleum exporter and in the 1950’s it was the world’s 4th richest country per capita.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    I will also ask that people please note how urgent the government felt is was to confiscate all civilian firearms. Now, why would they want to do that? I predict a distinct spike in gun running from weapons-rich next door neighbor, Columbia.

    • Over a decade ago there was a blogger out of Cairo named Sand Monkey that had to have something to do with the oil industry that said petroleum engineers were bailing out of Venezuela. This was at least a decade ago, maybe even 15 years ago.
      Venezuela is now bereft of engineers that can solve their problem. Hell, they can’t even supply clean water.

  6. What’s the answer? Allow big Corp to come in and solve their problem. I don’t see any other answer. Clearly your “cousin” couldn’t supply revenue to your country.
    Can you imagine the “battle fee” big corp’s employees will demand to work there?

    • It will take big bucks to get anyone there right now, if the rebels can take control and calm things down the combat pay will drop a lot in a couple of years.