Venezuela holds "anti-imperialist day". Children made to write letters to "Demand Obama cease aggres - Polidicks

[img]http://es.panampost.com/wp-content/uploads/ft-ideologia-escuelas-venezuela.jpg[/img] [i]Venezuela’s Education Ministry asked students to send Barack Obama a message.[/i] [quote]The Venezuelan government has sent out memos to schools across the country, requiring that schoolchildren write a letter of protest against US President Barack Obama’s declaration that Venezuela is “national security threat” to the United States. Venezuela’s Education Ministry issued the orders on March 11 for its regional and municipal offices to celebrate an “anti-imperialist day” in all schools, after Obama’s executive order of March 9. The recommendations were to be followed “without excuses.” Schools were told to put up a large banner including the Venezuelan flag at their entrance, along with a message rejecting the US announcement, which simultaneously imposed sanctions on several government officials. “We’re not a threat, we’re hope: we want to live and grow in peace,” was the official suggestion. The central education office also encouraged schools to collect signatures against “US interference.” A national coordinator with Venezuela’s Educational Observatory, Olga Ramos, told the PanAm Post that the directive issued by the Education Ministry did not explain what would be done with the signatures once collected. The Venezuelan Education Ministry has a a network of supervision offices throughout the country called Education Zones, which in turn are divided in municipalities. Ramos said it was the directors of these municipal offices who contacted schools, in writing or verbally, to comply with the ministry’s request.[/quote] [url]http://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/03/20/venezuela-orders-first-graders-to-denounce-us-imperialism/[/url]

Aw, that's cute. They think writing letters will somehow convince us to lower our sanctions... Writing letters doesn't do anything for the people that live here. Why would it work for Venezuela?

No Venezuela, we're not going to respect you for killing people who thought 68% inflation was bad, which it is.

Here in the state where I live (maracay) are doing the same thing of order of ministry of education to do that (includes preschool) since one of my cousins works as a teacher, already many parents protesting against it for violating the fundamental right to think freely to the child And without the permission of their parents who decide. [editline]20th March 2015[/editline] Considering it as the most cowardly and low way by the government using children for political use

Who the hell even uses the term "Fatherland" anymore?

[QUOTE=butt2089;47364473]Who the hell even uses the term "Fatherland" anymore?[/QUOTE] Fascists mostly.

whats the difference between fatherland and motherland?

[QUOTE=isreal?;47364536]whats the difference between fatherland and motherland?[/QUOTE] "Fatherland" tends to be applied more to Germany (particularly pre-Cold War Germany), whereas "Motherland" tends to be applied more to Russia and the Soviet Union. They are, however, technically interchangable and applicable to any country.

Why is it that the people in charge of self-described communist/socialist governments always seem to be fucked in the head? Yay, well done Venezuela. Forcing children who don't know any better to make a petty political pont.

[QUOTE=Aredbomb;47364564]"Fatherland" tends to be applied more to Germany (particularly pre-Cold War Germany), whereas "Motherland" tends to be applied more to Russia and the Soviet Union. They are, however, technically interchangable and applicable to any country.[/QUOTE] In my country, last time I checked, the Motherland is Spain Unless you're a crazy ultranationalist, or Evo Morales, who appeals to patriotic fervor by nearly worshipping the Pachamama, an incan deity which means "mother Earth".

Political indoctrination on children, Jesus Christ.

If anyone didn't know (or just a little recap, because I didn't see this *hilarious* part of this whole thing on SH), Maduro started blaming all of his country's problems on "USA, speculation, imperialism and capitalism", denouncing it multiple times. Also got the Venezuelan congress to grant him special executive powers (the kind of powers eventually wielded in dictatorial ways) to remedy the situation. Once he found out Obama passed the decree that would tag Venezuela as a threat to national security, Maduro sent a [u]desperate, terribly-spoken[/u] message in english addressed directly to Obama while campaigning to get signatures from Venezuelan citizens to send to the White House to cancel the decree somehow. :v: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HItOMHnfUAE[/media] It's like he's a little kid trying to fix shit up terribly and hilariously once he finds out he fucked it all up. Now he does this, using children in a weird international guilt-tripping campaign. He's a modern day south american shame. The total sperg president. I hope someone assasinates him soon enough or at least jails him and removes him from power. Also Maduro's son recently went to an arabian wedding and got filmed dancing while being showered with US dollars. :v:

I love how the picture in the OP features a soldier waving a saber forward right next to "Territory of Peace"

oh god dat english

venezuela are hope

How can somebody fuck up the pronunciation of the word "hope"? like, "threat" I can kind of get, but "hope"? All they needed to do was tell Maduro that the fucking hashtag is supposed to be pronounced in Spanish literally as "Venezuela is not a tret wi ar joup". it's not like #VenezuelaIsNotAThreatWeAreHope makes any sense anyway.

[QUOTE=Deng;47364284][img]http://es.panampost.com/wp-content/uploads/ft-ideologia-escuelas-venezuela.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] Something looks off about this map

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47365055]Something looks off about this map[/QUOTE] They claim part of Guyana.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47365055]Something looks off about this map[/QUOTE] -snip-

[QUOTE=Explosions;47365096]They claim part of Guyana.[/QUOTE] Why the fuck would they want Guyana? Most of the population doesn't speak Spanish, it's an impoverished jungle, and it has more ties to the Caribbean and Europe than it does Latin America. A good portion of Guyana is also Hindu/Muslim, compared to heavily Christian Venezuela.

[QUOTE=RockmanYoshi;47365212]Why the fuck would they want Guyana? Most of the population doesn't speak Spanish, it's an impoverished jungle, and it has more ties to the Caribbean and Europe than it does Latin America. A good portion of Guyana is also Hindu/Muslim, compared to heavily Christian Venezuela.[/QUOTE] They have a border dispute with them, as Guyana started drilling for oil recently and Venezuela is upset that they don't get the oil.

[QUOTE=Deng;47365219]They have a border dispute with them, as Guyana started drilling for oil recently and Venezuela is upset that they don't get the oil.[/QUOTE] Venezuela is one of the top oil producing nations, though. They can't have their cake and eat it too.

[QUOTE=RockmanYoshi;47365228]Venezuela is one of the top oil producing nations, though. They can't have their cake and eat it too.[/QUOTE] Chavez and Maduro both tried to have their cake and eat it too, and look where that's taken the country.

[QUOTE=Explosions;47365096]They claim part of Guyana.[/QUOTE] What is this, West Prussia?

[QUOTE=Deng;47365305]Chavez and Maduro both tried to have their cake and eat it too, and look where that's taken the country.[/QUOTE] Oh, they had their cake, alright. They didn't care to share and enjoy it properly, though.

yep, officially a communist dictatorship. we have been remarkably hands off for a country that has been trying to pick a fight with us

[QUOTE=RockmanYoshi;47365212]Why the fuck would they want Guyana? Most of the population doesn't speak Spanish, it's an impoverished jungle, and it has more ties to the Caribbean and Europe than it does Latin America. A good portion of Guyana is also Hindu/Muslim, compared to heavily Christian Venezuela.[/QUOTE] It has uranium, which holds tremendous political value. And oil, and mineral resources. It's actually a very important region for us, strategically, however, demographically, nobody there is actually Venezuelan. We have historically disputed that the Esequibo belongs to Venezuela, and up until an international court granted it the United Kingdom (Venezuela was represented by the United States, so it wasn't really all that fair), Venezuela owned the Esequibo "de jure". From then on there have been a series of disputes in the UN about it, particularly in the 60's, but it has always turned out to be a shitshow. It's ATM a very similar situation to the Falkland Islands, only that the government has to try really hard to spin it into a "colonialism" angle since we're a huge country compared to Guyana.

[QUOTE=Big Bang;47366000]It has uranium, which holds tremendous political value. And oil, and mineral resources. It's actually a very important region for us, strategically, however, demographically, nobody there is actually Venezuelan. We have historically disputed that the Esequibo belongs to Venezuela, and up until an international court granted it the United Kingdom (Venezuela was represented by the United States, so it wasn't really all that fair), Venezuela owned the Esequibo "de jure". From then on there have been a series of disputes in the UN about it, particularly in the 60's, but it has always turned out to be a shitshow. It's ATM a very similar situation to the Falkland Islands, only that the government has to try really hard to spin it into a "colonialism" angle since we're a huge country compared to Guyana.[/QUOTE] Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I knew there were some minerals and oil in Guyana, but not uranium.

[QUOTE=isreal?;47364536]whats the difference between fatherland and motherland?[/QUOTE]Depends on the country and the language iirc. e.g. in the Nordic countries it's referred to as fatherland.

[QUOTE=Sega Saturn;47364774]I love how the picture in the OP features a soldier waving a saber forward right next to "Territory of Peace"[/QUOTE] By the way, is that supposed to be Bolivar?