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Revolution Rising: Colossal Protests Rock Socialist Venezuela
Anti-socialist protesters flooded Venezuela’s capital in one of the largest mass protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s rule in over a decade – and one of the largest protests in world history.
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Chanting “this government will fall,” millions rallied across Caracas to demand a recall referendum against Maduro amid the crippling economy in the OPEC country.
“We are going to bring down Maduro!” said Naty Gutierrez, 53, who persevered 75 miles of military roadblocks to reach the protest. “We are going to defeat hunger, crime, inflation and corruption.”
“They’ve done nothing in 17 years.”
She was surrounded by fellow citizens waving banners and national flags.
Protesters poured into Caracas from all across the country, according to the Democratic Unity coalition, which opposes the ruling party.
Hyperinflation, multiple years of recession, shortages of basic goods and long lines at stores have destroyed the lives of Venezuela’s 30 million people.
“As F.A. Hayek could have predicted decades ago, continued state control of economic activities in Venezuela had led to increasing control of the private life of everyone, and so it happened in Venezuela,” economist Iván Carrino of the Mises Institute wrote. “Authoritarianism, already running at high levels, grew even bigger, and today not only are there political prisoners such as Leopoldo López, but also businessmen who are imprisoned and persecuted for being suspected of causing an ‘economic war’ that seeks to undermine the government.”
“The truth is that a boundless government has spent well beyond its means, issuing currency without control to cover budget deficits. After that, when inflation came, the Venezuelan state decided not only to control currency prices but every price in the economy, creating shortages in basic services and giving rise to what is now a humanitarian crisis.”
However, the people finally won a decisive opposition win in a December legislative vote.
Maduro’s opposition hopes the protests will heap pressure on the Venezuelan government to allow a direct vote on his rule, granted by the constitution half-way through a presidential term.
If Maduro loses, new elections would be held and polls indicate the opposition would win. But if a vote is delayed until after Jan. 10, and Maduro loses, his vice president would finish his term ending in 2019.
Maduro was quick to respond to the unrest.
“If they’re coming with coups, ambushes and political violence, the revolutionary will provide an uncommon and overwhelming response,” he told supporters, adding that his opponents are plotting a coup like the one that briefly toppled his mentor Hugo Chavez in 2002.
He claimed authorities had arrested people wearing military fatigues and C4 explosives who planned to fire upon the crowds dressed as National Guard members, but his claim is likely false and intended to demonize the protesters.
But instead of discouraging Venezuelans’ enthusiasm, the saber-rattling rhetoric appears to be energizing the opposition, said Dimitris Pantoulas, a political analyst from Caracas.
“The government made a big mistake by throwing fuel onto the flames,” he said, adding that
had the government minimized the protest’s importance it would have likely failed to garner much support.
Firmly in power since Hugo Chavez took office in 1999, the socialists are losing power
due to collapsing oil prices and the failing state-run economy that has left the country in chaos.
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10 Comments on "Revolution Rising: Colossal Protests Rock Socialist Venezuela"
rockman on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 9:00 pm
I have to wonder if it’s “anti-socialist” that are rioting or if it’s socialists who are pissed off that the govt’s tit is drying up.
Plantagenet on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 9:32 pm
Time to boot the tinpot socialist dictators of Venezuela into the dustbin of history.
Cheers!
DMyers on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 9:39 pm
Socialism relies on tyrannical rule over its human subjects. Every ill can be overcome by an executive, judicial, or law enforcer order. In this system, the power-hungry politician is deemed better suited to make decisions for the people than are the people themselves. The problem then lies in the fact that power- hungry politicians do not make decisions in the people’s interest but rather in their own interests and those of their friends and families.
The people are torn between the Left, which offers tyranny and arrogance from its appointed, and the Right, which offers tyranny and exclusivity. The revolution begins against the Right but ends up against the Left. A reasonable conclusion is that the Left/Right division is a false bifurcation to obscure the true entity which employs both ends against the middle.
Maduro clings to his power, while having manifest nothing but failure and false bravado in his tenure as leader of the nation. He has consumed and plundered whatever may have derived from previous regimes (i.e., whatever was left after Chavez), and there is simply nothing left to build, or energize, a revolution from his own counter-revolutionary piece of the world.
makati1 on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 11:49 pm
America?
” “You may know society is doomed when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you; [and] when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice.” -Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”, 1957
When I read that book for the first time 10 years ago, I had to stop and remember that it was “fiction”. It resonated so close to the actual US that it sounded like current events or maybe a bit into the future. Now it is even more real and prophetic even though it was written, pre-computors and the internet, in a world where there was still “remote” places one could disappear into. Alas,every square millimeter is recorded and scanned daily by satellite today. You can even track your car, kid, or pet with a little coin sized gadget which also tell Big Bro where you are.
Anonymous on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 1:01 am
Us oilmen are some of the most hard-core socialists and communists in the world. Try and withdraw the uSgov that subsidizes and backstops every stage of their private, for-profit enterprises and see what happens.
With no gov tit for uS oilymen to suck on, they’d start crying for mama so loud you’d hear them over there in Saudi Arabia.
Robert Spoley on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 12:36 pm
People around the world have installed governments of every kind throughout history in the hopes that they would always be benign symbiots with the general population. They would or should aid the people in organizational situations and thus ameliorate these problems such as floods, earthquakes, fires and so forth. In order to do this the people surrender certain liberties to aid in solving the problem with the idea that once the problem is solved, the government returns the liberties to the people. Never gonna happen. All governments morph into parasites, then aggressive parasites and finally predatory parasites. At that point in time the host population throws the parasite out and installs a new government with more controls on it. The next crisis that shows up results in the same process all over again. Rahm Emmanuale said it perfectly “”never let a good crisis go to waste”. Venezuela is going through this process now. The U.S. is on the verge of going through it,
Charles Kohlhaas on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 7:09 pm
The socialist tit always dries up, just some faster than others as the number of suckers comes to outnumber the number of feeders. Do we really have to read this nonsense about US Government subsidies to the oil companies again? There aren’t any.
dts on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 9:45 pm
yes there are, shell gets 2 bill a year and exxon 200 mill a quarter.
Kenz300 on Tue, 6th Sep 2016 8:57 am
Overpopulation makes every problem harder to solve.
Poverty…unemployment……..climate change…….
The Effects Of Growth: Sprawl & Development – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA33sraoyCk
Charles Kohlhaas on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 11:49 am
dts: These numbers for Shell and Exxon seem quite firm. How did they get these subsidies? Did the government just mail checks or were they wire transfers? Please give an accounting of how these were paid; I do not see them in the financial statements.