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Why oh why is it so hard for the countries in South America to elect a reasonable leader?That's what I had pretty much heard, too.Take it a little easy, Lucy. When I heard about the riots this a.m. and how violent they were, I immediately thought of Antifa. I was amazed so many people in Germany (I know some of them came from other countries) are opposed to capitalism. It's kind of scary. And their behavior is even scarier.Do you even know what Antifa are? Have you met any? No and no of course, maybe you should not respond to things you have no clue about. Leave it to people who have been involved for a long time monitoring these wastes of human skin and who know more about them than they know about themselves.
No Martini today or tonight or yesterday or last night.
That's for people who work for The UN, airdrop them into the jungles of The Congo and forces them to drink their own urine and eat ants.
If you cannot see that there is a very well organised operation, then that isn't my fault, but many many hundreds of millions of people across the world can see it and thank goodness they can, if everyone was asleep like you are then people might as well just shoot themselves already.
The UN does that to its own workers?
I thought you were being creative.
What's going on in Venezuela has nothing at all to do with capitalism. Their problem isn't economics, it's government run amok; a totalitarian regime not much different really from North Korea or Cuba where a ruthless despot will resort to any means necessary to stay in power.
I heard in passing this a.m. (no particulars whatsoever) that folks got in and beat up some pols in the legislature or something?
This will not end well, but it sounds like the people are going to take him out one way or the other.
I just hope that whoever follows the current guy in charge (Maduro) will return that country back to a democratic republic that it used to be instead of a brutal dictatorship. My impression is that Maduro won't go peacefully, so things could worsen until there's a coup.
I feel bad for the Venezuelans.
Part of it is cultural, part of it is societal. There has always been a underclass. Since the time of conquistadors they have ruled the peons with an iron fist. The ruling class is saddled with a sense of machismo, and that sadly colors a lot of their thinking.