"Eating More"
Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution remains alive and well in Venezuela. While Venezuelans themselves, mostly still alive, are most definitely not all that well. His groomed successor is busy carrying on in the tradition made famous by Hugo Chavez's revolutionary zeal to transform the country into a socialist republic. Succeeding marvellously.What the Kremlin discovered during the reign of the USSR in the massive failures of communism to transform people into productive automatons resulting in the failure of manufacturing and agriculture to thrive under the Soviet system, Venezuelans, to their huge regret, are re-discovering for themselves.
Their vast fossil fuel resources notwithstanding, the state is falling apart in disorder, disrepair, dispute and disgrace. There are dreadful food shortages, and the most basic of hygiene products are nowhere to be found. Fights among the consuming public for rare common food stuffs have become deadly in their outcome.
Venezuela can boast it sits atop the world's largest oil reserves, but new multi-million-dollar oil tankers have never left dock or carried shipments abroad.
Nicolas Maduro has promised to put Mr Chavez's policies into actionLoyalty among the poor masses of Venezuela toward their leader who promised them the world at their doorstep, transferred at his death to his hand-picked successor, the "quiet man" who did as he was told and who stood by Chavez uncompromisingly, with no inner conviction other than that he would carry on the Chavez agenda.
An agenda which had already proved itself a failure before the death of the incomparable Venezuelan leader.
With the accession of his successor the failures that had assailed the country; economic, security, social, political, only accelerated And President Nicholas Maduro responds to the crumbling of the socialist revolution in Venezuela by placing the blame for it on an American plot to "sabotage the electrical system and the Venezuelan economy".
Following directly on his adored mentor's stunning statement in the UN that: "The devil came here yesterday, and it smells of sulfur still ..." left from President Bush's appearance of the day before.
"Out of Venezuela" he shouted as he expelled Washington's envoy to Venezuela. "Yankees go home", which will most certainly go far, very far in aiding him and the people of Venezuela in finding solutions to aid their economic, social and civil recovery. Meanwhile Venezuela grapples with 45% inflation; shortages that have left families without food, and coping with widespread power outages.
Venezuela is now considered to represent one of the world's most violent societies, with an average of 71 murders taking place each and every day. Although supermarket shelves are empty, with people taking to violence in their efforts to scramble to acquire what few food items are available for sale, inflicting harm on one another in the process, the shortage of toilet paper in the country had Maduro blaming that shortage on Venezuelans "eating more".
As though it is they who are full of ordure, and not he.
Hugo Chavez (left) and Nicolas Maduro were close friends for decades
Labels: Economy, Human Relations, Social Failures, Venezuela, Violence
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, October 08, 2013
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