Dark. Clouded. With greater violence a likelihood.
Sad to see a country with so much potential not exercise its possibilities.
Hugo Chavez, a close follower of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, started the nation on its downhill course by wrecking their oil industry.
And when he died of cancer in 2013, he anointed Nicolas Maduro to succeed him.
I don’t know what Chavez saw in Maduro, other than he would be a faithful follower.
This last Sunday, July 28th, after another general election was held, Maduro brazenly falsified the results to keep himself in office. The man just stole the vote.
He was saying to Venezuelans and anyone who would listen, ‘this country belongs to me and I’ll kill anybody who challenges me.’
Protests continue as we speak but the likelihood is that the military will stifle them. Step on their brothers and sisters. Clobber them.
More and more Venezuelan will die and more and more will emigrate, adding to the over 7 million that already have done so.
Maduro would not be in power without the complicity of the military and of other Venezuelans who are ripping off their fellow citizens.
And then there’s the support of Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un and Iran’s clerics.
Putin took a break from his daily killing of Ukrainians, to congratulate Maduro, and upon hearing that there were street protests demanding he accept the real results, reminded Maduro that he would always be welcome on Russian soil.
It’s a club.
A small gathering of…
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