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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.
His point was that 3 "Banana Republics" had more equally distributed wealth than what is ostensibly the Greatest Nation on Earth. He was right to point that out, but like all popular politicians fighting against the American oligarchy he's got to be careful how he says things least people take quotes out of context to smear him.
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Anyone who "sees parallels" between the deregulation and push for expanded trade and employment in the US relative to the nationalization, currency controls, and Government-economic-stranglehold of Venezuela is simply insane. The economic policies put forth by the Trump Administration are pretty much diametrically opposed to those of Maduro.
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Trumps tariffs and trade wars are negotiation efforts to pressure other countries to lower their barriers to trade and make fairer trade deals for the US.
Ultimately, Trump wants free trade with minimal tariffs and barriers. We need an extremely experienced negotiator and businessman like him to get there. Barry did nothing to improve trade deals for the US, and crooked Hillary wouldn't have done any better.
he is simply reacting to tariffs in other countries. ... I don't see a big difference.
The EU has tariffs on US products in the range of 6%, the US has tariffs on EU products in the range of 4%
Jumping up and putting tariffs in the range of 20% on selected EU products makes no sense IMHO.
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"We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" is funny hyperbole.
It was not hyperbole in the slightest. Saw it with my own eyes.
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Sounds that may be explosions were heard during his speech. That much cannot be disputed.
Maduro says right wing plot, Colombia president, yadda yadda ...
However, fire fighters on the scene said it is a gas tank explosion inside an apartment near where the speech was.
Neither side gave more details, and in this climate and culture of conspiracies, it is hard to get to the real facts.
Long version of the above on the BBC.
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As a former eastern bloc citizen, I've never seen anybody starving here in my country; torture did exist, of course, but it wasn't any different than that made in, for instance, Guantanamo.
I know places like Cambodia were a whole different story, but comparing that to countries like Hungary, Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia is like putting Switzerland and Somalia inside the same "free market countries" bag.
was basically destroyed by two World Wars, where as America made it out almost completely unscathed. They didn't have fuel to bring their tanks home for Christ's sake.
And there's always lots of make work jobs in a post industrial world (and more everyday). The different between the USSR and America is we use out military to create make work jobs so it's not so damn obvious. The downside to that is that much military power sitting around constantly destabilizes the world.
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Even if Maduro died tomorrow, the Army is controlled by the Chavistas, and those generals have a vested interest in making sure the regime stays afloat (they're as corrupt as hell and a new government would almost certainly lock them up). Killing Maduro would probably makes things worse since the Chavistas would both be able to blame the US and simultaneously lock up opposition leaders. The best that can happen is a revolution coupled with a colonels revolt or coup. At that point the Chavistas would probably flee the country with suitcases filled with gold and US currency.
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