• Venezuela grants Maduro decree powers over defence and public safety
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[url]http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-assembly-gives-maduro-special-powers-us-confrontation-194010145.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw[/url] [quote]Venezuelan lawmakers voted Sunday to give socialist President Nicolas Maduro special powers to go it alone in defense and public safety, amid an escalating confrontation with the United States. The decree powers were approved by a show of hands in the National Assembly -- which is packed with Maduro allies -- after two hours of one-sided debate. They will be in effect until the end of the year and will raise fresh fears about abuse of power. "This Assembly declares this law approved," declared speaker Diosdado Cabello. "We are going to head over there in front of Miraflores (presidential) Palace to deliver the law to the people and comrade Nicolas Maduro," Cabello added.[/quote]
continuing that whole descent into communism trend now are they? guess they're at the dictatorial takeover stage, next they'll be at the toppling neighbors stage
Poor Venezuela, if i remember correctly the police over there used gas bombs and stuff on people protesting against Maduro, 37+ people died last year, 559+ injured. Brazil is going that path also, the economy has stalled, inflation hit the highest level in nearly ten years and the Brazilian Real is now the second worst-performing currency in the world. In one month 1 Dolar was R$2,35 now one dolar is R$3,25. Honestly, I dont know what to do...
Considering how most Venezuelans live, the conditions in prisons and cities, the astronomical crime rates and violence, the shortages and collapse of basically every aspect of a healthy functioning society, I can only conclude that Hugo Chavez and Maduro have both succeeded at creating the closest one can get to hell on earth.
Maduro only has 10-20% of acceptance of the people because it very hated including for people who thought it would be like chavez and vote for it now are regretting, that even calling for his resignation so it is taking shelter of the Army to support him because the thing here is so thick and worse they are liable to culminate in civil war the shortage there is getting worse (if even for diapers you must have a birth certificate of your baby so you get diapers or if it is for an old man a medical notice otherwise if your baby is not born yet or no have a medical notice forget if),criminality, high corruption, etc. Though many here know that can use the Habilitating Law to repressing more or imprison opposition members or suspend parliamentary elections, only trying to hold everything possible to power.
[QUOTE=Deng;47330614]Considering how most Venezuelans live, the conditions in prisons and cities, the astronomical crime rates and violence, the shortages and collapse of basically every aspect of a healthy functioning society, I can only conclude that Hugo Chavez and Maduro have both succeeded at [B]creating the closest one can get to hell on earth[/B].[/QUOTE] pretty sure north korea is that.
He just wants to burn the country down, with him going down with it.
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;47330941]pretty sure north korea is that.[/QUOTE] North Korea is actually improving (slowly) and is at least somewhat stable. It's not the 90s famines there anymore, and is comparable to China in about 1980 before the advent of major market reforms. It's an insane little country with a fucked up regime, but the people there generally support that regime (which is why it outlived the Soviet Union). Venezuela meanwhile is in rapid decline and is falling apart. It's more badly governed than North Korea, is less stable, and perhaps worst of all, North Koreans haven't known much of a better life, but in the case of Venezuela, most people there can remember a better time.
I know it's gonna get much worse for Venezuela from here onward, and I know I'm gonna witness all of it first hand because I took too long to leave, now I'm stuck here for a couple more years.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47335900]I could picture Maduro as Bane like that easily[/QUOTE] You're giving him too much credit. He's not some sort of evil mastermind, he's something much worse, he's incompetent, and he's unaware that he is incompetent. He's an embodiment of the mediocrity that has eroded Venezuela on every aspect, which is by itself a manifestation of all the times we have overlooked something that was wrong, just to avoid momentary suffering. He's the result of all the indifference towards the problems that plagued our country that has built up over the years. We, ultimately, made him.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;47336324]You're giving him too much credit. He's not some sort of evil mastermind, he's something much worse, he's incompetent, and he's unaware that he is incompetent. He's an embodiment of the mediocrity that has eroded Venezuela on every aspect, which is by itself a manifestation of all the times we have overlooked something that was wrong, just to avoid momentary suffering. He's the result of all the indifference towards the problems that plagued our country that has built up over the years. We, ultimately, made him.[/QUOTE] I, for one, hope that the situation cools off quickly and that something peaceful is done to help the country get back into shape. It really feels like a lot of this is out of the people's hands.
Time for a new old-fashioned revolution.
[QUOTE=archangel125;47336733]Time for a new old-fashioned revolution.[/QUOTE] It didn't work the first time why would it work now? Venezuela's problems are not something it can solve by itself. You need help from established democracies, you need people to obey international law, you need to take all those criminals to international instances and indict them, you need to reestablish every single one of our institutions from the ground up, there is so much work to be done, and the people capable of doing so are hastily abandoning the country for places that actually value them. You need an intervention, not a revolution.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;47336822]It didn't work the first time why would it work now? Venezuela's problems are not something it can solve by itself. You need help from established democracies, you need people to obey international law, you need to take all those criminals to international instances and indict them, you need to reestablish every single one of our institutions from the ground up, there is so much work to be done, and the people capable of doing so are hastily abandoning the country for places that actually value them. You need an intervention, not a revolution.[/QUOTE] The problem is that help doesn't come from elsewhere without strings attached, and those strings are bound to be bad news for the people of Venezuela. Change has to come from within, even if it isn't a permanent solution. And it never is.
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