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A collection of problems in Venezuela

 
 
 
Loren Pechtel said:
http://gawker.com/venezuela-still-fucked-1762451863

One problem I wasn't aware of: using oil money to import food to sell cheap devastated local food production.
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I enjoy it when a writing style brings a little levity to a horror - as long as I am not the one experiencing it. Apparently the gawker's style is exactly that.

Loren's link:


Venezuela—with a broken economy, runaway inflation, and rampant crime—is so fucked right now. How fucked is Venezuela since the last time we told you how fucked it was?

Venezuela Is So Fucked

Our nation has problems, and your nation has problems, but be thankful you don’t live in Venezuela, …

Venezuela has the distinction of being the world’s worst-performing economy, thanks to cratering oil prices, incompetence, and corruption. Despite that, the country continues to somehow make its foreign debt payments, funneling precious billions to outside lenders, even as one financial observer muses that “my sense is that they really run out of everything at the beginning of next year.” Despite that, Venezuela’s most immediate response to rampant inflation is to start printing bank notes in larger denominations. The country is so politically polarized that its courts are facing off against its legislators in a war over judicial appointments. The government grew so fat and happy on oil revenues that it allowed the entire agricultural sector to wither away, and now it can’t grow enough food to feed people. Even the supply of Venezuelan baseball players is drying up. People have no toilet paper. Farmers have no potato seeds. Even if they did, they couldn’t plant them, because armed robbers are stealing all the tractors and holding them for ransom. Venezuela’s most reliable current export is the Zika virus, although they’d rather not discuss it. In Caracas, the former mayor’s on trial for conspiracy, millions of people don’t have a reliable drinking water supply, electricity is being rationed, and people have taken to hijacking food trucks just to stay alive.
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Ya...that is pretty FUCKED to be sure.
 
And as far as the National Assembly's problem with Maduro's hand-picked Kangaroo Court, the latest Orwellian court opinion strikes down another part of the plain language Constitutional rights of the AN...

Orwell stressed that high party officials needed to commit wholeheartedly to Doublethink – the ability to hold directly contradictory ideas in their mind simultaneously and to accept both of them. This sounded to me dangerously close to the definition of schizophrenia. ...

(But) In yet another decision...adds more to their prontuario than to their jurisprudence, the Justices showed the terrifying prescience of Orwell’s vision.

... This is not just about creatively qualifying and arbitrarily limiting the powers the Constitution reserves to the Assembly, this is about directly contradicting the plain meaning of the constitutional text.

The point that jumps out at me has to do with the Assembly’s subpoena powers. The constitution is anything but opaque on this point. Article 223 is, actually, entirely explicit.

All public employees are obligated, subject to the penalties established by law, to appear before the Assembly’s committees and to provide the information and the documents needed to accomplish its functions. This obligation includes also private individual; safeguarding the rights and guarantees this Constitution enshrines.

The language is sweeping, explicit and categorical. Ahí no hay pa donde coger. Right?

You’d think so. But you shouldn’t doublethink so.

In its decision yesterday, the court takes the simple, legible, straightforward, entirely plain meaning of Article 223 and shoots it full of holes. From the power to demand an appearance in person, as well as answers and documentary evidence from, in effect, anyone – including any public servant, yes, but also any private individual as well – we get to a circumscribed power to subpoena only public servants “subject to political control” working for the executive branch, but not including the military, and then giving them the preferential option to submit their answers in writing, and a long series of potential excuses not to, if they – not the Assembly, but they – feel that doing so might negatively affect the conduct of public administration.

Inside the chavista imagination, you safeguard the constitution by negating it. You sustain its legitimacy by ignoring its content. The defense of the constitution and the shredding of the constitution are one and the same thing.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.
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Apparently the AN has the right to ask questions and responses in writing, only as long as Maduro does not feel it like it might be negative for his administration.

Those justices really ought to be nominated for the US Supreme Court - it would liven up our own court sophistry.
 
Yes, Venezuela is fucked. But Zika virus is such a shitty thing that I think international community should step in and send some medical supplies and insect repellant or whatever else is needed to keep it in check. Just because Venezuela's current leadership consists of small-headed babies doesn't mean the country should be doomed to an entire generation of the same.
 
OK, but at least their President hasn't compromised email security.
 
Jayjay said:
Yes, Venezuela is fucked. But Zika virus is such a shitty thing that I think international community should step in and send some medical supplies and insect repellant or whatever else is needed to keep it in check. Just because Venezuela's current leadership consists of small-headed babies doesn't mean the country should be doomed to an entire generation of the same.
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It will take decades if ever, for this nation to emerge from the mire socialists have created!
 
maxparrish said:
And as far as the National Assembly's problem with Maduro's hand-picked Kangaroo Court, the latest Orwellian court opinion strikes down another part of the plain language Constitutional rights of the AN...

Orwell stressed that high party officials needed to commit wholeheartedly to Doublethink – the ability to hold directly contradictory ideas in their mind simultaneously and to accept both of them. This sounded to me dangerously close to the definition of schizophrenia. ...

(But) In yet another decision...adds more to their prontuario than to their jurisprudence, the Justices showed the terrifying prescience of Orwell’s vision.

... This is not just about creatively qualifying and arbitrarily limiting the powers the Constitution reserves to the Assembly, this is about directly contradicting the plain meaning of the constitutional text.

The point that jumps out at me has to do with the Assembly’s subpoena powers. The constitution is anything but opaque on this point. Article 223 is, actually, entirely explicit.

All public employees are obligated, subject to the penalties established by law, to appear before the Assembly’s committees and to provide the information and the documents needed to accomplish its functions. This obligation includes also private individual; safeguarding the rights and guarantees this Constitution enshrines.

The language is sweeping, explicit and categorical. Ahí no hay pa donde coger. Right?

You’d think so. But you shouldn’t doublethink so.

In its decision yesterday, the court takes the simple, legible, straightforward, entirely plain meaning of Article 223 and shoots it full of holes. From the power to demand an appearance in person, as well as answers and documentary evidence from, in effect, anyone – including any public servant, yes, but also any private individual as well – we get to a circumscribed power to subpoena only public servants “subject to political control” working for the executive branch, but not including the military, and then giving them the preferential option to submit their answers in writing, and a long series of potential excuses not to, if they – not the Assembly, but they – feel that doing so might negatively affect the conduct of public administration.

Inside the chavista imagination, you safeguard the constitution by negating it. You sustain its legitimacy by ignoring its content. The defense of the constitution and the shredding of the constitution are one and the same thing.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.
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Apparently the AN has the right to ask questions and responses in writing, only as long as Maduro does not feel it like it might be negative for his administration.

Those justices really ought to be nominated for the US Supreme Court - it would liven up our own court sophistry.
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You keep posting ridiculous contradictory statements and ascribing them to other people. Is that because you are afraid to admit that those same ridiculous contradictory statements are a representation of that you actually think.? Are you perhaps a bit of a scizoid? Maduro has not made any mistakes that have led to the invasion of countries and regime changes and millions of deaths the way our leaders have done...(Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc. etc. etc.) It is a real wrong thing to blame people for things over which they have no control. Our leadership seems to think that the only way to succeed is to become a big time liar, like a Bush, a Cheney, or perhaps a Clinton or two. Even people who pretend to be on the left are liars. Everybody has a skeleton in their closet or they are deemed by the liar's chorus...".unelectable.";)
 
angelo said:
Jayjay said:
Yes, Venezuela is fucked. But Zika virus is such a shitty thing that I think international community should step in and send some medical supplies and insect repellant or whatever else is needed to keep it in check. Just because Venezuela's current leadership consists of small-headed babies doesn't mean the country should be doomed to an entire generation of the same.
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It will take decades if ever, for this nation to emerge from the mire socialists have created!
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I hear Jindal is looking for a new gig, maybe he could help turn things around.
 
arkirk said:
maxparrish said:
And as far as the National Assembly's problem with Maduro's hand-picked Kangaroo Court, the latest Orwellian court opinion strikes down another part of the plain language Constitutional rights of the AN...


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Apparently the AN has the right to ask questions and responses in writing, only as long as Maduro does not feel it like it might be negative for his administration.

Those justices really ought to be nominated for the US Supreme Court - it would liven up our own court sophistry.
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You keep posting ridiculous contradictory statements and ascribing them to other people. Is that because you are afraid to admit that those same ridiculous contradictory statements are a representation of that you actually think.? Are you perhaps a bit of a scizoid?
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I did not make contradictory statements (your red font color), I provided an excerpted quote from an article on Venezuela. http://caracaschronicles.com/2016/03/02/the-opposite-of-constitutional/

Naturally, there is no need to reply to your assertion that is mistakenly attributed, nor to your incoherence over imagined contradictions.

Maduro has not made any mistakes that have led to the invasion of countries and regime changes and millions of deaths the way our leaders have done...(Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc. etc. etc.)
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The subject is on what Maduro and his supporters have done to Venezuela, not what blunder or evil he has forgotten to do.

That he has not adopted the Cambodian solution to his social transformation mission does not make him a saint - it makes him a little less evil that Pol Pot...not exactly an endorsement, is it?
 
Was the West to blame for Pol Pot's reign of terror and destruction of a nation and it's people as well? It was the " North" Viets who liberated Cambodia and put an end to Pol Pot's murderous regime.
 
angelo said:
Was the West to blame for Pol Pot's reign of terror and destruction of a nation and it's people as well? It was the " North" Viets who liberated Cambodia and put an end to Pol Pot's murderous regime.
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The West is to blame for everything! Why are you asking such a stupid question?
 
From a recent Forbes article...
....the social democratic method works if that’s what you want to do. Tax the richer people a bit more and give the money to the poorer people...
...What doesn’t work is going and messing with markets. Like, for example, price fixing. But of course price fixing is what Chavez and then Maduro did and that’s the explanation for the fact that the country faces shortages of everything from toilet paper to food. ...
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But it's the richer people who provide employment. Tax them at the same rate as anyone else, that way they will pay much higher taxes because their income is much higher than say, a factory worker. Plus all the people the rich employ pay taxes instead of receiving government hand-outs if they were unemployed.
It's wealth and growth that create a healthy economy. Stagnation, or lack of growth causes unemployment. That's what you would have if the rich are taxed out of existence.
 
One of the most energy rich countries in the world can't keep the lights on.

Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis

Venezuela is shutting down for a week as the government struggles with a deepening electricity crisis.
President Nicolas Maduro gave everyone an extra three days off work next week, extending the two-day Easter holiday, according to a statement in the Official Gazette published late Tuesday. Maduro had originally said over the weekend that the extended holiday would only apply to state employees.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-down-for-a-week-as-electricity-crisis-mounts
 
I've got a nephew that's going to Venezuela this summer. His girlfriend (HAWT!!!) is from there and she want to go back to visit her family. I've asked him to report back on the conditions he sees.
 
ZiprHead said:
I've got a nephew that's going to Venezuela this summer. His girlfriend (HAWT!!!) is from there and she want to go back to visit her family. I've asked him to report back on the conditions he sees.
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Women there are amazing. And when I was there it was like they also had a national clothing shortage.

Advisable for him to dress down and not bring anything valuable.
 
He's always had extremely good looking girlfriends. One was third or fourth runner up for Miss Michigan, don't remember which. She was a crazy drunk though.
 
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