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Ffs stop calling leftist coalitions frente amplio.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frente_Amplio Frente Amplio may refer to: Broad Front (Chile), a political coalition in Chile Broad Front (Costa Rica), a political party in Costa Rica Broad Front (Dominican Republic), a political coalition in the Dominican Republic Broad Front (Peru), a political coalition in Peru Broad Front (Uruguay), a Uruguayan left-wing coalition of political parties Broad Progressive Front (Argentina), a political coalition in Argentina (2011-2013) Broad Front UNEN, a political coalition in Argentina (2013-2015) Broad Progressive Front, a political coalition in Mexico Broad Popular Front, a political party in Panama Broad Front for Democracy, a former political party in Panama 
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Oct 4, 2018 17:11
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Actually you will find any opposition to Maduro is actually right wing fascists and furthermore,
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Oct 4, 2018 17:55
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Furia posted:Actually you will find any opposition to Maduro is actually right wing fascists and furthermore, I thought the going line was they they're Liberal Capitalists, as opposed to anything ultra-right.
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Oct 4, 2018 23:31
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Kokoro Wish posted:I thought the going line was they they're Liberal Capitalists, as opposed to anything ultra-right. Por que no los dos dot gif
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Oct 7, 2018 21:33
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Yesterday, an opposition politician named Fernando Alban was killed while in SEBIN custody. The regime first claimed that Alban had jumped out of a bathroom 10th storey window of the SEBIN's Plaza Venezuela headquarters. Later, the Minister of the Interior said that Alban jumped out of a window located in a waiting room. I heard accounts from two of Alban's colleagues and his lawyer saying that he would never have killed himself. His lawyer also wondered why Alban, a prisoner, was on the 10th floor of the SEBIN headquarters in the first place, when the holding cells are located in the basement. Alban had been in custody since Friday, but as per the SEBIN modus operandi there was no arrest warrant and no one was notified of his arrest, so I don't think anyone knew why he was arrested. The Minister of the Interior said yesterday after announcing his death that Alban had been arrested in connection to the August 4 drone attack. The UN human rights office is calling for an investigation into Alban's death. The other news from yesterday is that the IMF is projecting that inflation will hit 10,000,000% at the end of 2019, up from the 1,000,000% projection for this year.
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Oct 9, 2018 14:27
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Venezuelanalysis and DSA members are very sure that dissidents just fall out of windows all the time and furthermore this proves the inferiority of their character. https://twitter.com/MikePrysner/status/1050473620047155200 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 12, 2018 04:01
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Please don't make the Venezuela thread about the dsa you freaking weirdo.
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Oct 12, 2018 04:11
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I got some interesting insight from a friend of mine that studies law. Apparently the bathroom’s located in Sebin’s tenth floor have no windows so even if he was there for some reason (unsupervised, too) the facts don’t fit the story at all
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Oct 12, 2018 12:57
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Interesting article came out about Venezuela's relationship with Turkey recently. I'm crossposting this from the Middle East thread: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-11/why-erdogan-is-maduro-s-new-bff Bloomberg posted:Turkish products—pasta, rice, and corn flour—fill the heavily discounted food packets Venezuelan officials use to maintain political fealty among the increasingly cash-strapped citizenry. The two countries recently announced joint ventures for gold and coal exploration and have begun talks about Turkey investing in Venezuela’s crippled oil industry. And while most big North American and European air carriers have ended service to Venezuela, Turkish Airlines does a three-times-a-week run to Caracas, via Cuba, and plans to step it up to daily flights.
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Oct 13, 2018 01:06
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Furia posted:I got some interesting insight from a friend of mine that studies law. Apparently the bathroom’s located in Sebin’s tenth floor have no windows so even if he was there for some reason (unsupervised, too) the facts don’t fit the story at all he was so devoted to committing suicide that he made a comedic Sebin-shaped hole as he sprinted through the wall
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Oct 13, 2018 01:12
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-swiss-bank-executive-sentenced-prison-role-billion-dollar-international-money A Swiss banker is getting tossed into jail for being part of a money laundering scheme involving the PDVSA and 1.2 billion dollars.
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Oct 29, 2018 19:46
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Okay I've come back after a couple of months. Are thing better, just as bad, or worse?
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AGGGGH BEES posted:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-swiss-bank-executive-sentenced-prison-role-billion-dollar-international-money he made the mistake of having a property in Miami (as the colonialist imperialists allege of the defenders of the Bolivarian Revolution) and staying at it, is how he got grabbed Matthias Krull. Are we sure he's not a James Bond villain?
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punk rebel ecks posted:Okay I've come back after a couple of months. Are thing better, just as bad, or worse? Worse. Always worse
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"Venezuela is rolling out a new ID card manufactured in China that can track, reward, and punish citizens" https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-id-card-tracks-citizens-like-china-2018-11
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Nov 19, 2018 01:17
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Negrostrike posted:"Venezuela is rolling out a new ID card manufactured in China that can track, reward, and punish citizens" it'll ensure that scarce resources go to the truly needy and morally upright, rather than to fraudsters and counterrevolutionaries quote:The database, according to employees of the card system and screenshots of user data reviewed by Reuters, stores such details as birthdays, family information, employment and income, property owned, medical history, state benefits received, presence on social media, membership of a political party, and whether a person voted.
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Nov 19, 2018 06:11
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article221706585.html One more corrupt oligarch brought low.
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I was in Barranquilla last week scoping out the place as a possible field work site for my dissertation. Unofficial figures put the number of Venezuelan migrants in the city at about 125,000, out of a total population of 1.2 million. The Colombian government estimates that there are now over one million Venezuelans living in the country. I was struck by the fact that every traffic light has a group of Venezuelan people--sometimes 4-5 of them--selling candy bars, water, and fruit to motorists who stop at the red light. I saw a huge migrant tent city in a park and entire families living in bushes on the side of the road. The scope of the situation on the ground there was staggering. I also had a chance to hang out with a Venezuelan community group that is doing some incredible work in the face of overwhelming odds. I tagged along with them as they handed out free meals to Venezuelan migrants, and wrote about my experience that night. AGGGGH BEES posted:https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article221706585.html If anyone ever tells you that there's an economic blockade against Venezuela, they're right: it's been in place for almost two decades now. That's $1 billion worth of corruption between just two individuals in an operation that spanned just a couple of years.
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Chuck Boone posted:I was in Barranquilla last week scoping out the place as a possible field work site for my dissertation. Unofficial figures put the number of Venezuelan migrants in the city at about 125,000, out of a total population of 1.2 million. The Colombian government estimates that there are now over one million Venezuelans living in the country. quote:The Venezuelan exodus continues, as continues the humanitarian precarity in Venezuela, where the population suffers from a shortage of food and medicines. Hence, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has decided to strengthen the humanitarian response at the border crossings of its neighboring countries - Peru, Ecuador and Colombia - in the face of the massive arrival of Venezuelans in recent days to benefit of a temporary permit in the first country that will allow them to live and work legally. 2. Huh, Google Translate is a lot better than I remember.
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Cicero posted:1. drat, that's a lot of Venezuelans. the people working tirelessly on google translate quite frankly own one of my really good college buddies narrowly didn't get a job with them and is instead doing other natural language black magic
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Nov 22, 2018 00:13
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...a-idUSKCN1OP0RZ Unsurprisingly, putting the military and some idiot who can't even spell the word petroleum in charge of the oil industry has not produced more oil at all, nor has jailing workers for "sabotage" when poo poo breaks because there arn't enough parts or people who know how to maintain it. a revolution... of poo poo!?
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Dec 27, 2018 13:02
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AGGGGH BEES posted:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...a-idUSKCN1OP0RZ But I'll bet some military guys and their buddies extracted a lot of money. Which was probably the point.
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Dec 29, 2018 20:01
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Warbadger posted:But I'll bet some military guys and their buddies extracted a lot of money. Which was probably the point. Yeah, whenever Venezuela finally goes tits up, there's gonna be a whole bunch of very rich ex-military guys heading off for some nice quite country.
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RagnarokZ posted:Yeah, whenever Venezuela finally goes tits up, there's gonna be a whole bunch of very rich ex-military guys heading off for some nice quite country. They're already out there. Not all of them, and not the higher ups, but military officers and their families are everywhere, Florida, Texas, Spain, Italy. They're living it large.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46513571 Goodyear is ceasing all Venezuelan operations and is giving all its 1200 employees there 10 tires each in addition to their severance pay. Dunno if that was in their original employment agreement or if its a way to offload exess tires/give employees something that will retain its value in hyperinflation.
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No joke ten tires might as well be ten bars of gold in Caracas A bit strange that it’s ten tires and not say 12 or 8 or some other multiple of 4 but whatever. Motorcycle tires maybe
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Tires are useful for blocking intersections and setting on fire during protests. Goodyear's playing the long game here
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poo poo, I wish I got tires as part of my severance pay in the US. That's a lot more useful than a few hundred bucks.
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bucks can be exchanged for goods and services
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Jan 1, 2019 18:39
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The new tire-backed TreadCoin will save the economy!
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-defense-idUSKCN1P32LQ The defense minister asked Maduro to resign, or he's going to.
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Just to quote the whole article, being somewhat short:quote:Venezuela’s defense minister told socialist President Nicolas Maduro to step down last month, and said he would offer his own resignation if he did not, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous U.S. intelligence official. Seems like a bit of a poo poo or get off the pot situation. Maybe he wanted more money.
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Jan 10, 2019 22:54
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So we've entered the 'troops stop getting paychecks' stage of state failure.
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Friendly reminder of what public perception of Venezuela used to be 5 years ago. My favourite paragraphs are: quote:But how can a government with more than $90bn in oil revenue end up with a balance-of-payments crisis? Well, the answer is: it can't, and won't. In 2012 Venezuela had $93.6bn in oil revenues, and total imports in the economy were $59.3bn. The current account was in surplus to the tune of $11bn, or 2.9% of GDP. Interest payments on the public foreign debt, the most important measure of public indebtedness, were just $3.7bn. This government is not going to run out of dollars. The Bank of America's analysis of Venezuela last month recognised this, and decided as a result that Venezuelan government bonds were a good buy. quote:One problem is that most of the central bank's reserves are in gold. But gold can be sold, even if it is much less liquid than assets such as US treasury securities. It seems far-fetched that the government would suffer through a balance-of-payments crisis rather than sell its gold. quote:Hyperinflation is also a very remote possibility. For the first two years of the economic recovery that began in June 2010, inflation was falling even as economic growth accelerated to 5.7% for 2012. In the first quarter of 2012, it reached a monthly low of just 2.9%. This shows that the Venezuelan economy – despite its problems – is very capable of providing healthy growth even while bringing down inflation. quote:• The subheading on this article was amended on 15 November 2013. The original one, not supplied by the author, ended with the words "in this oil-rich country the only thing imploding is poverty". This has now been removed
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Goddamn. If maduro and pals had been even slightly competent, they could have run Venezuela on rigged elections and oil money for all eternity.
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fnox posted:Friendly reminder of what public perception of Venezuela used to be 5 years ago. The article was written by Mark Weisbrot, who co wrote Oliver Stone's documentary on how great Chavismo is.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-brazil-venezuela-idUKKCN1P60FN Brazil has recognized the Venezuelan opposition leader as president. quote:SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s government on Saturday issued a statement saying it recognised Venezuela’s Congressional leader, who opposes President Nicolas Maduro, as the rightful president of Venezuela.
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AGGGGH BEES posted:https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-brazil-venezuela-idUKKCN1P60FN Is this a significant enough event to setoff any sort of chain recognition?
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https://www.npr.org/2019/01/07/682865392/venezuela-supreme-court-judge-denounces-government-flees-to-u-sVenezuelan Supreme Court Judge Denounces Maduro Government, Flees To U.S. posted:A Venezuelan Supreme Court judge who once supported President Nicolás Maduro has fled to the United States and publicly denounced Maduro's re-election days before the inauguration. The Judge gave a long interview with some tv news channel, you can read his reasoning for turning on the government below: https://evtvmiami.com/confesiones-del-juez-desertor-en-exclusiva-para-evtv/ Venezuelan court is saying he really fled accusations of sexual harassment and the political stuff is all an excuse.
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