telesurtv.net
Despite an ongoing food and medicine shortage — largely due to illegal hoarding by corporations owned by the right-wing opposition — Venezuela maintained a higher ranking than Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.
Muh Venezuela
Kayden Anderson
Andrew Collins
The glorious Bolivarian People's Revolution of Venezuela will not be stopped.
Dominic Thompson
what's the truth about Venezuela? all i hear is bad news, of course. Is crime really rampant in Caracas?
any Venezolanobro here btw?
Anthony Evans
Come on now, can we at least get to the point that socialist "economics" is admittedly shit? This is embarrassing.
Kevin Foster
Cool.
Obviously Venezuela has serious issues, but its worth noting that the only reason you hear about them exclusively is
a) the corporate media
b) fluent english speaking bougies on socmedia who constantly insist on how terrible it is (because they are agitating for borderline fascist opposition parties)
They complain so much because for the first time they face issues like food insecurity and power outages that the proletariat of SA have faced for the entirety of their existence
Alexander Flores
It's a socdem state that has dutch disease from oil. Porky is hoarding shit to make it collapse. It's not as bad as it's made out to be, and generally better off than some of its neighbors.
Carson Wright
Can you at least get to the point that you aren't just a baiting shithead? Petropopulism isn't socialism, retard.
Camden Morris
Come on now, you can google socialism and know wath it is
Charles Ward
Venezuela is state capitalist social-democracy though. I dont even think it's much more nationalized than norway.
Jackson Campbell
demsoc01 nails it
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Brandon Jackson
It's not but social democracy in Scandinavia is cool cause its Aryan people and everything they do is awesome but brown Latinos or Latino whites in Latin America only deserve free market Pinochet-style capitalism because reasons.
Hunter Jenkins
How ? can you really justify that ?
Owen Flores
How do they differ from other people ?
Wyatt Powell
Not really. The Wikipedia summary is rather misleading.
Jacob Rodriguez
because they're tall, white, blonde and attractive :^)
Jonathan Phillips
SOMEONE ANSWER ME
Yes I realize Venezuela isn't socialist, but didn't it begin as socialist since Chavez? He seems to be favored here.
Gabriel Jones
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Ian Barnes
Chavez was anti-imperialist, which was good. He wasn't very socialist however. His socialism was essentially just taxes and welfare, which was still too much for his the local porkies and their American backers, who promptly tried (and failed) to stage a coup against him.
James Thompson
He spent all the oil money on propping up a welfare state, and when the price of oil dropped it all fell apart. Retard tier economics.
Zachary Torres
No, it was a social democratic welfare state funded by oil money.
Actually, it's not that different from Norway, except for being on the business end of imperialism rather that a beneficiary of it.
Blake Parker
It's a shit version of Norway, except without the competence of Norway in running a social democratic state. They produced nothing outside of oil, so when oil prices fell, the economy tanked.
Matthew Ross
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Hudson Baker
This is why I abandoned the left. How fuckng dishonest do you have to be to try and justify your shit system with rhetoric? Fucking hang yourself and make your parents proud.
Isaiah Martin
It's not socialism. Deal with it.
Joshua Russell
Venezuela is just poor man's Norway, except with bigger government interference in the market.
John Hughes
Wew lad.
Samuel Nguyen
Wow I'm weeping
Easton Cruz
Nice try Holla Forums.
Samuel Rodriguez
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Aiden Russell
wew lad
And well, no shit, one year of strong inflation (It has stopped a bit for now, but that's normal in hyperinflation. It stars slow, it speeds up, it stops, then it speeds up again) is not enough to make the HDI drop a full point or anything like that. The fake GDP probably affects things too. (The nominal GDP in US$ is 7 (official DICOM) to 20 (black market) times higher than it should be, due to the black market/official dollar thing)
Nicholas Harris
You have a lot of reading to do.
Gabriel Cruz
You have a cockroach tier intellect.
Ian Allen
whats habbenings heres :DDD
theguardian.com
Jacob Wilson
I mean it's clear there's some Allende's Chile CIA bullshit going on, and I agree with Lenin that speculators must be shot on the spot, but do you have some links? This crisis seems way too deep and the shortages too widespread to be just hoarding.
Joseph Kelly
GIVE VENEZUELA A FUCKING COOKIE, THEY ARE MARGINALLY LESS SHIT THAN COLOMBIA
Evan Price
The crisis is mainly the drop in oil prices, the shortages are made more severe by the hoarding not caused by it.
Mason Bell
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Ryder Howard
Venezuelan here.
You're all legitimately mentally retarded if you believe any of telesur's garbage.
No wonder braindead libtards vote Hillary.