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Hugoon Chavez posted:Toilet paper becomes incredibly valuable when you can't find toilet paper. You can't wipe your rear end with cigarettes and if you put booze down there it's gonna end up clean but you aren't going to enjoy it.
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Purpose-built voting centers seems like a big waste, but sharing them with obviously partisan institutions is even worse. Have they given any reason as to why they are doing this? Is the standard procedure not to just commandeer schools over the weekend (as seems to be the practice in the rest of Latin America)?
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Aug 31, 2015 17:29
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What is the official line regarding the status of the Constitution regarding the Estado de Excepción? If there are no rights being suspended, then what is the point of declaring totally-not-martial-law? The entire objective of such a method is to expedite state action by removing people's rights for the duration of whatever is going on. How can anyone keep parroting the opposite when this is what is happening by the very definition of what they themselves are doing. Its not a question of obfuscating facts or drawing up scapegoats, such as in the case of whether or not these Colombians are all in paramilitary organisations and/or drug cartels, but something which is proven false literally by the name that they have given it.
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Sep 2, 2015 22:16
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Who says he has to even hold an election?
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Sep 16, 2015 22:49
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Phlegmish posted:The region is under effective control of Guyana, right? Is there anything Venezuela could realistically do to press its claim? I imagine that if they tried to invade, there would be a strong international reaction.
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Sep 23, 2015 17:35
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M. Discordia posted:Maduro may eventually realize that if he wants to retire to a villa in Nice with his billions of looted Swiss bank account dollars, the perfect pretext will be a negotiated end to a U.S. intervention. Then we can get another 100 years of Allende-type apologism claiming everything was going great until the CIA interfered, too. Maduro is a horrible person, but by using such statements you're just playing into the image of the oversensitive and perpetually suspicious Latin American right-winger.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:35
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Fair enough, this being a discussion about Latin American politics one can never be too careful sadly. I don't think Maduro is open to any sort of violent overthrow regardless. The military has been sufficiently purged (they learned the lessons of the past decades) and there's really no other source for that sort of force to come from. The whole thing could end with blood on the streets and the like, but it won't be because the military initiates the action.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:24
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Chuck Boone posted:
I clicked through this and they casually mentioned how there were "at least 400 reports that had been submitted against Venezuela and the electoral process", which I guess is people complaining about being intimidated at a voting area or something. It's fantastic watching in a really hosed up way.
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Dec 6, 2015 16:37
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To what extent is it possible to (1) reform the judiciary or (2)strongly influence permanent staff appointments in state institutions. Given traditionally strong Latin American executives, which is even more powerful in Venezuela, does control of the legislature (obviously more at the 2/3 level than the 3/5 level) translate into an effective means to generate change? For example, over the last year, and particularly in the last two months, the Kirchnerist government in Argentina has designated thousands upon thousands of public-seector permanent staff, which are extremely difficult to get rid of. In the vast majority of cases, these are people who's qualifications do not extend further than membership in La Camporá, and whose purpose are just to throw a spanner in the work of the new administration. Also ABC is barely qualified to be used as toilet paper.
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Dec 8, 2015 08:42
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Look Mr. Burns is clearly a horrible person but I don't think we should descend to the level where we call him a Peronist.
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Dec 23, 2015 17:55
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Where's Borneo Jimmy? I can't form a correct opinion without his impartial information bulletins.
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Jan 6, 2016 15:59
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If there is no electricity to run shops, no capital to import goods, and people have to queue for hours for food, then starting to close down shops and give people more time off and more holidays is a frank admission that the situation is horrible. Even in North Korea you are expected to go to your job and clock in and out at the appropriate time, even if 90% of the day is spent standing around because you lack whatever it is to do your job. I assume that in many cases you have vast underemployment by now in Venezuela, and this is only going to get worse. Obviously you cannot run an economy by having half of the workforce standing in line for eggs 6 hours a day, and nothing breeds discontent like a bunch of pissed off people being forced to congregate for hours on a daily basis in order not to starve to death.
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Feb 13, 2016 21:48
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I think the general passivity in the face of the erosion of human rights in Venezuela is the worst thing to have happened in Latin America this side of having the entire continent covered in military juntas. The entire point was to not revert to this crap. It's extremely disappointing and leaves me feeling sad any time anyone mentions any sort of regional body.
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Apr 24, 2016 22:21
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Who is actually making the minimum however(wouldn't it just be rendered obsolete by inflation) ? Or rather, that pizza is not indicative of purchasing power if you are willing to stand in line and play the rationing lottery, so what is a more apt comparison of what your average employed person may be able to afford? Assuming you have dependents who are able to stand in line while one works? I'm just trying to comprehend how people are still able to get by, because it's now reached the point where it sounds so dire that it beats the crap my own parents would tell me about having to put up with when they were kids in regards to lining up for food and such (and back then it wasn't anywhere as violent in terms of street crime etc.) In other news the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Mercosur was an absolute disaster. No presidents except for Uruguay's attended, a lot of Brazilian deputies walked out in protest about Dilma and then Venezuelan deputies interrupted speeches complaining about the changes made to the court. So not only has Mercosur stagnated over 90% of its lifespan, but it can't even hold a self-congratulatory meeting.
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Apr 27, 2016 22:30
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Can't wait for Borneo Jimmy to spin the deaths of babies into an anti regime plot.
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May 4, 2016 16:28
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JeffersonClay posted:Caracas is the new Pyongyang.
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May 7, 2016 08:44
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Mans posted:It's interesting you mention Angola because as time goes on this situation just seems to be eroding into an Angola-lite situation where the ruling party has total control fo the military and shares the wealth with it just enough to make sure that any popular organization is properly crushed while their oil exports and massive import needs means that A) the right wing of the west remains silent because they like cheap out and a good place to export their goods and B)the left remains silents because they crony party in power was nominally leftist twenty years ago. NGOs hate him!!!!! One weird junta trick
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May 18, 2016 21:30
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fnox posted:The concept of a Venezuelan diaspora is very real at this point. A low estimate puts the amount of people who have left the country in 17 years of Chavismo to be around 1.2 million.
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May 19, 2016 22:10
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Venezuela is not going to splinter into different provinces or any other Tom Clancy bullshit. The country is going to poo poo but at least it's going to poo poo together.
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May 31, 2016 12:22
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El Hefe posted:And Mercosur are also going to declare Venezuela a dictatorship soon apparently, Maduro's days are numbered.
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May 31, 2016 19:35
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Sorry for our poo poo foreign policy Venegoons. It wouldn't be Latin America if we didn't gently caress it up at the last minute.
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TheImmigrant posted:'The gently caress? Who is 'we'? Argentina, we had an actual good concrete chance to push at the OAS and we didn't. Sorry for not being clearer.
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Jun 2, 2016 16:17
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Spacewolf posted:Does anybody else remember (probably not from living through it, I was only born in 83 myself, but has anybody else heard of it) that one of the events that kicked off the Iranian Revolution was a biiiig, glitzy party for the 2000th anniversary of Persepolis (or something) in a country that was largely in poverty? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,500_year_celebration_of_the_Persian_Empire
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I'm sorry to the Venegoons but don't get your hopes up about any MERCOSUR or Unasur or OEA shenanigans. At most what will happen is that they will give the presidency of MERCOSUR to someone else, or have some sort of emergency session bypass. Do not expect Venezuela to be put on probation for human rights violations or democratic failings or anything of the sort.
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Aug 2, 2016 18:25
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I think it's telling that when asked about affiliation you have a massive 35% of people who don't believe in the government that, even in this situation, would rather not associate themselves with the opposition and rather say they are independent. Even though the other question for removing Maduro adds up the percentages of people who identify as opposition and independent fairly well. Is this indicative of such a bad view of the formal opposition? How can the MUD be so unappealing that it is only attracting just over half of people disaffected with the current regime.
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Aug 7, 2016 08:54
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Please take your medicines. Unlike our friends in Venezuela you have ready access to them but choose to ignore your doctors advice.
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Aug 10, 2016 07:02
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Kurtofan posted:Where does Chavismo still have the most support? The armed forces.
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Whenever I wonder how this has all happened and how the PSUV has held power for so long I just remember myself of the Venezuelan opposition.
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Sep 1, 2016 18:29
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Labradoodle posted:Yes, I'm lucky. I'm a freelancer and I should have enough saved up to leave within the first three months next year and move to Argentina while sending money back home. If that weren't a factor, I would've gotten the hell out of dodge already. Personal anecdote but it certainly seems like the number of Venezuelans in Argentina is growing.
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Labradoodle posted:Well, there go the Argentina plans I guess. I was expectant to see what would happen since they mentioned the possibility a couple of months back, but we all knew it was going to go down sooner or later. I should still have enough savings to leave next year – maybe I'll do the whole digital nomad thing while I find a nice place to settle down. I don't think you should have any major issues? It's still very easy to come and live in Argentina. There are a lot of non-MERCOSUR Latin American immigrants. The law is very accommodating to foreigners (a good thing).
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Nov 22, 2016 08:20
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Where are you seeing this? Maybe I've just not been paying attention to the right things but: 1) I haven't seen any reputable source or mainstream newspaper report on anything more than discussion 2) Even if Venezuela was kicked out of MERCOSUR from one day to another it is still very easy to move to Argentina as a Latin American, and, if that was your plan, you should not let that dissuade you.
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Nov 22, 2016 18:04
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Pity Party Animal posted:For gently caress sake, if you want the best news from a country, maybe try news sources from that part of the world? Damnit goons. So as noted above there actually isn't more than just talk on it being reported at the moment. Good to hear what the Paraguayan foreign minister has to say about it but anything major happening in MERCOSUR will be decided between the Brazilian and Argentine governments behind closed doors. Also forgive me being suspicious but Venezuela should have been suspended from MERCOSUR, UNASUR, and the OEA about 5 times each. So jumping the gun Venezuela's suspension (not expulsion, which would probably affect things like emigration questions) is a very real prospect.
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Nov 23, 2016 08:20
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As always, the only thing that can outdo satire is real life.
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Nov 25, 2016 16:38
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Bates posted:Professional diplomats and public servants, sure. Politicians, such as the Foreign Affairs Minister, can just be some random incompetent idiot appointed by some other incompetent idiot.
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Baloogan posted:Guess its not the right time to visit. I hate queuing in line anyhow.
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In Argentina when there are waves of looting (and there hasn't been anything serious in years inshallah) the police almost without fail pulled back from small/medium shops and protected large chains and foreign businesses. It is designed to create social tension and turn the smaller stores into comparatively easier targets. Even if the shop-owners have guns what are they going to do? They're going to be a few people up against a mob, if they shoot not only will they get looted they'll get lynched as well. By the same token, what are even well-organised criminal bands going to do? Are they going to go up against the police and potentially get their own people killed? No, they'll go after the TV or phone shop and then flip the merchandise.
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Dec 19, 2016 20:21
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fishmech posted:People who start saying Hitler had some good ideas when they get frustrated need some serious help, in my opinion. Especially people saying it for a country run by a dictator already.
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Dec 26, 2016 14:30
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Any particular insight about El Aissami and the appointment? Does this mean bad tidings for Diosado?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:well, the only good thing i take from this is that the only people supporting maduro openly anymore (outside of the country) are WOKE tankie clowns who mostly stay on twitter and right lovely thinkpieces about how great maduro is(which are rairer now a days) or "academics" like Ciccariello and my old government professor who are basically old hippies or tankies who somehow survived the bush years and jerk off about the glory days when they had the USSR to worship and now they can only worship smaller failing states. No one real is defending them anymore. That article is good and notes that the absence of commentary among the left in Western Europe is a very real issue. In Latin America though a lot of those people are still very vocal, and our governments fail to act even though Venezuela breaks every democratic accountability rule in Mercosur, Unasur, OEA, etc.
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