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Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com)
The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, has survived an apparent assassination attempt involving drones that exploded close to him while he was speaking at an event in Caracas. State television showed Maduro abruptly cutting short his speech during a celebration of the National Guard's 81st anniversary. From a report: In a tweet, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, called the incident at the military parade a "terrorist attack against the president and the high military command blaming the opposition for the violence." Venezuela's international government broadcaster, TeleSUR, said on Twitter that the Venezuelan government confirmed an attempted attack on Maduro. Venezuela's vice president for communications, Jorge Rodriguez, later addressed the nation on live TV at the request of Maduro. He said people heard explosions that corresponded to drones and heard drones detonate near a parade for the occasion.
The example of Venezuela doesn't show the failure of central planning. A trained hamster could do a better job with central planning than Maduro does. If you don't have hallucinations, then you could do a better job. The Soviet Union showed that a planned economy is workable.....it just doesn't grow as quickly. Also your argument fails because Venezuela doesn't have a planned economy: they have a government that raids warehouses and then arrests people for hoarding.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
It's funny how people just associate socialism and communism to any government not working out.
Perhaps because the socialists and commies, including Bernie Sanders, praised Venezuela back when oil prices were high, and only fell back on the standard lack-of-purity excuse when Venezuela ran out of OPM and the failure became obvious.
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