Tell me, in what ways is Venezuela socialist? I'd love to hear it from a real Venezuelan.
This guy in here doesn't represent the majority of Venezuelans but probably represents rich, white Venezuelans very well. Venezuelans chose Maduro, they chose the bolivar revolution...and yeah, if you wanna keep score, we can keep score and the US is well in the lead of China when it comes to wrongdoing at home and abroad. Don't mention Gulags when the US has more nonviolent prisoners than any nation in history. The US has over 6x the incarceration rate of China.
Talk about perspective. I'm still waiting for China to invade and install dictators/terrorists in random countries all over the world.
Ask Maduro, he and his people keep telling everyone how great socialism is now that we have it and not when we didn't...
If i was rich, i would have some ties with the de facto gov. Those are the only rich people left, they either belong to the presidential family or the family of one of the ministers or those close to him, usually operating some company that gets all the juicy contracts from the State monopoly. Also the corrupt officials, especially the military...
Skin color is meaningless in Venezuela, we don't have your racial prejudices.
The "PRC" annexed: Xinjiang, Hainan, Zhoushan, Tibet, Yijiangshan, Dachen, Paracel. Installed and / or helped consolidate: North Korea, Vietnam...
Venezuela is at least 80% against Maduro. Elections have been a bad joke after the
"National Constituent Assembly" fiasco, where they claimed to have more votes that day that when Chavez won the presidential elections in 2012 or the following year Maduro with barely under 1% difference against the opposition leader (which many still claim to this day were rigged). That was BEFORE he actually ruined the economy AND the social programs left by Chávez. Unlike those two previous events, the electoral centers were empty the whole day.
You don't understand this because you didn't lived it. NO ONE went to vote for Maduro last year, yet he claimed again about the same amount of votes than that fake constituent assembly.
The only "bolivar revolution" was the one he made against Spain 200 years ago, which resulted in the independence. You should read what Marx, yes THAT
Karl Marx wrote about Bolivar, that will teach you something interesting you seem to have ignore, despite your claimed ideological affiliation...
With your over-cliched "rich white" comment, you showed zero knowledge of this country. Go back and make the "revolution" in
your "rich white" country, so you can make it as miserable as this one for everyone that is not the great leader or close to your party...
Funny how you just described Maduro right there, except without the "pure capitalism" and "private central bank" of course, because Socialism is
ownership of the means of production by the State. And unlike private entities, you just can't go against the State, or else...
Here I'll fix it for you so it reflects reality:
ok then print money and promis pure capitalism socialism centered on yourself and your central bank scam the venezuelans with your private central bank. without socialism capitalism, you wont get a working population you will need to have an army that enslaves a part of the population because no one will accept the sovereignty of your currency
Well said, that's Maduro's de-facto regime.
Again, I for legalizing all drugs. Legalizing prostitution. Legalizing gambling. That will take care of 90 percent of the non-violent criminals (I don't know the true percentage). But don't pretend these people didn't break the law.
Venezuela has one of the highest violent death rate of the hemisphere (about 20k per year). Caracas often takes the 2nd place in the continent as the city with most violent deaths per year.
Guns are banned for civilians. It was possible to obtain a permit in the past, but this was suspended under Maduro.
Gambling was legal and regulated, but parts of it were suspended under Chávez.
Prostitution is legal.
Drugs including cannabis are illegal.