Shit going down in Venezuela

[Profileid]

It sounds pretty bad there. What the fuck is going on?

Opposition leaders branded Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" on Thursday after the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress and pushed a lengthy political standoff to new heights.

There was swift and widespread international condemnation of the de facto annulment of the National Assembly, where the opposition won a majority in late 2015 amid an unprecedented economic crisis that has seen Maduro's popularity plummet.

The head of the 34-nation Organization of International States (OAS), Luis Almagro, said the Venezuelan court had dealt the final blows to democracy and accused Maduro's "regime" of carrying out a "coup."

Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala and Panama expressed strong concerns while Peru withdrew its envoy after what it termed a rupture of democracy.

The United States described the move as a "serious setback for democracy in Venezuela" while the European Union called for a "clear electoral calendar" going forward.

Venezuela's top court had already overturned most National Assembly decisions since the opposition win. Then late on Wednesday, it explicitly stated it was assuming Congress' role in a ruling authorizing Maduro to create oil joint ventures without the previously mandated congressional approval.

"As long as the situation of contempt in the National Assembly continues, this constitutional chamber guarantees congressional functions will be exercised by this chamber or another chosen organ," the court said in its ruling.

The contempt charge stems from vote-buying accusations against three lawmakers from southern Amazonas state. Even though they no longer sit in Congress, the court said parliamentary leaders had not handled their case legally.

Critics of Maduro say it is an excuse for him to consolidate power and muzzle the opposition amid a severe recession, soaring inflation and acute shortages of food and medicine.

Maduro, a 54-year-old former bus driver and foreign minister, was narrowly elected in 2013 to replace late leftist President Hugo Chavez. He has accused Washington of leading a push to topple him as part of a wider offensive against leftist governments.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ve...-idUSKBN17122M

[Argentano]

yeah this totally sucks, poor venezuelans

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

The chickens have come home to roost.

[Nurzat]

many Venezuelan women look insanely beautiful, now that they've become shit-poor it's the time to step in and have a Venezuelan mail bride

[Profileid]

The chickens have come home to roost.

Gotta say you were right about this.
I knew the situation wasn't good there, but I didn't think it was that bad.

[alnortedelsur]

The current shitty and backwards populist Chavista/madurist government (which just hijacked the independence of powers in Venezuela) is the antithesis of the progressist government of Marcos Perez Jimenez, who put Venezuela in the highest peak of its history, and ahead of most of Latin America in many aspects:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...ez-(1948-1958)

Shame on the corrupt banana-like democracy that came after Marcos Perez Jimenez, and preceded the Chavismo. The shitty governments of that corrupt democracy (1958-1998) are the ones to blame for the progressive downfall of Venezuela as country, and the raise of Chavism.

[Argentano]

The current shitty and backwards populist Chavista/madurist government (which just hijacked the independence of powers in Venezuela) is the antithesis of the progressist government of Marcos Perez Jimenez, who put Venezuela in the highest point of its history, and ahead of most of Latin America in many aspects:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...ez-(1948-1958)

Shame on the corrupt banana-like democracy that came after Marcos Perez Jimenez, and preceded the Chavismo. The shitty governments of that corrupt democracy (1958-1998) are the ones to blame for the progressive downfall of Venezuela as country, and the raise of Chavism.

i dont want to defend chavez/maduro but could it be that the international media kills them because because they are very anti USA? What surprises me is that many sources have venezuela as "even poorer" before chavez but the media never tells you that.

[alnortedelsur]

i dont want to defend chavez/maduro but could it be that the international media kills them because because they are very anti USA? What surprises me is that many sources have venezuela as "even poorer" before chavez but the media never tells you that.

That's why I am telling that not only the Chavism/Madurism is a shitty government, but also the corrupt democratic governments that preceded it. They are the ones to blame for the raise of Chavism. Please read thoroughly all my post.

And the Chavism/Madurism has completely destroyed the Venezuelan economy, expropriating a lot of companies from the private sector, not to make them produce but to leave them in ruin. Now people have to wait hours in line to get any product, and that never was seen before Chavism/Madurism.

[EL_BARBARO]

quilombus maximus (a gigantic mess)

[alnortedelsur]

quilombus maximus (a gigantic mess)

Me averguenza como Venezolano que Venezuela haya llegado hasta esta m... no se como llamarlo.