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On March 06 2013 10:31 Nevermind86 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 06 2013 10:30 sAsImre wrote:On March 06 2013 10:21 Nevermind86 wrote: Speculation is caused by both. By political reasons and by wrong government economic policies, the government declared some days ago that their policies were bad and had to be completely adjusted, they did it on chained-national television, that is, forcing all private channels to transmit the news, does that happend in a dictatorship though? Not even in so called democratic government does the government apologize like that on TV.
But that honestly that is not much of a problem for Venezuela right now, why would you guys even care to discuss that: Our problems are the rampant crime, corruption, lack of production in all fields even oil and the list goes on.
let's just hope you don't add a shacky political transition to the list. Not gonna happend, Maduro, his right hand man and friend of all the oil transnationals wins by a landslide. He was the chancellor of foreign affairs for a long time and because of that the key man in the negotiations with all the oil transnational that took part in the re-privatization of oil started in 2010, he is the man of both chinese and russian oil interests, the biggest investors of the country, he is also a very charismatic guy that has been with Chavez since forever, no way he losses. On top of all of that he's a jew and a lot of important businessmen in this country are jews, it's rumoured they are on pretty good terms and well they really are. To see if this is true you just need to see the numbers, in 2012, Venezuela gave through CADIVI, 56 $ billion oil-dollars at cheap prices to businessmen to buy stuff around the world and sell it at a fat profit, since you cannot buy dollars around here freely but only though that government agency CADIVI you have to be friends with these guys to get some money, obviously he will financed by all those business inerests for his campaing and it will be in only 30 days, people will still be very emotional about Chavez's death and so they will vote for Maduro, he's a nice guy and very smart too. I'll vote for him 
This is funny i know Nevermind in real life, Hi Roberto btw. And there has to be some masochism by all chaviztas, everytime i has spoken to Nervermind he says govt. sucks yet somehow he says other goverments were worse but he is 26-27 years old. He didnt live in those goverments only this one.
His arm was almost severed because of lack of good medical system in Venezuelan hospitals, he had an accident and because the surgical area was so close to the morgue he got a really strong bacteria in the wound, he was almost amputee.
There were problems before but to name a few of the biggest problem in Venezuela right now.
We have the worst inflation around 21%-27% the last 2 years.
Our exchange currency is greatly overvalued, even with the current devaluation, it says Bs 6.3 = $ 1 USD. yet its all bullshit as it is controlled and if you travel you only get at MAXIMUM $3000 on credit card, $500 on cash and $400 for internet expenses, A YEAR. If you want more you have to go to the black market. With current price is 25 Bs. to $1 (minimum wage at black market rate is $82 MONTHLY).
Insecurity is our biggest problem, with killings on Caracas, the capital happening every day and we have had many problems with jails, where the "prans" order killings and kidnappings from inside the jails, yet goverment fails to act.
We never had energy problems as we have today, other goverments made the guri and several investment on the electrical systems, blackouts only used to happen ocasionally on small towns in places where it was hard to get energy on. Now it happens very often, in all cities but Caracas (because of the political cost).
And to top it all off we give other goverments money or free shit that they dont pay as they should, take for example Cuba, supposedly we give em 100.000 barrels/day and they give us cuban medics, lol just do the math and see how its a fucking rip off.
Maduro is not smart, his education is basically non existent, he was a "bus driver" nothing wrong on that but its not what a President Curriculum Vitae should look like. He is so fucking stupid that on devaluation he said "we are doing this to protect the Bolivar". Yeah fuck right, because devaluing 47% and not changing archaic system is the way to go...
There is no democracy in here its just a farse, separation of powers is non existent, everyone with a worth of salt KNOWS that there was a temporary absence of the president, yet it wasnt declared by the TSJ (supreme court), nor it was declared a medical joint board to see how his condition was.
All in all, the supporters of Chavez are just supporting it because they think it would be worst. But thats being fairly shortsighted and you need to REALLY somehow be able to accept all of this shitty goverment bad shit as somehow acceptable. which is not.
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Northern Ireland23737 Posts
This is a lazy copy-pasta from my Facebook, some was in response to other posts but I just decided to bring it right across.
Did a lot of things that were on aggregate beneficial for many his citizens, while abusing the rights of certain others. Changed the constitution to eliminate term-limits and enable him to get back to power but DID enjoy popular support and as far as I'm aware didn't rig the elections. Did dismantle some of the media, which may have indirectly 'rigged' things though, but this isn't Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Mugabe, or Putin who actively defrauded the voting system.
A paranoid stance towards the United States, but partly explicable paranoia because of the foreign policy of the United States.
His most problematic legacy imo is that he created a cult of personality that will make any kind of transition extremely problematic. Albeit his charisma was part of his political appeal, but any charismatic leader who dies without much of an exit strategy will create a power vacuum of some kind.
Accusations that he 'bribed' people into supporting him by *shock* investing in education and health are retarded. That's what governments SHOULD do, regardless of the rest of their structure, or what they do.
The United States and their apologists can go fuck with their piousness regarding the entire central/Southern American region, Castro, or Chavez. Their ridiculous and harmful 'war on drugs' has created many of the social problems in the region that they blame the incumbent governments for. Their meddling in the region's affairs to install sympathetic right-wing/laissez-faire capitalists or military regimes has had a devastating legacy to this day.
By all means, hate Chavez or whatever he stood for, but don't do so on 'humanitarian' or 'human-rights' grounds. The United States, and indeed the UK are no fucking angels in this department both historically and to this day.
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Damn... who is gonna tell us we make the podium smell of brimstone now??
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On March 06 2013 09:52 Nevermind86 wrote: Being a Venezuelan, I'd like to explain shortly why we will always remenber him and what he meant to the country:
-His government was bad, crime is rampant, inflation, waste of resources, populism, all of it it's 100% true but the governments before were actually worse. He came to prominence as one of the heads of a coup d'etat in 1992 against a two-party system that served the same masters, the venezuelan economic powers, particularly the emerging nouveau rich bankers. Back then the country was comming out of a period similar to what the great depression was to the US because oil prices dropped to 7$, government debt was in a historic high, social spending was being dramatically cut and wages were dropped to the bottom, some 3 years before that, in february 27th 1989, FMI austerity measures were declared, that among other things increased the price of gasoline by 800%, the price of public buses went up accordingly and people that couldn't go to work rioted, the then pro-american government sent the army to the streets and around 3.000 were killed, of course the UN or any international body back then cared and nobody responsible went to jail. It was since then that the two party system was morally bankrupt, so Chávez's coup d'etat even though it was a failure got him on tv apologizing to the venezuelan people for doing it, people loved him since then because he admitted it was a mistake, after popular demand charges were dropped after 2 years in jail.
Then in 1993 a leftish presidential candidate that represented the people that supported Chavez won an election but electoral fraud was rampant and instead a well known extreme right winger took power, his government wasn't so bad until 1995 where banks were going bankrupt and he decided to bail them out, stimulus packet style but the banks still went bankrupt and another economic crisis started. Then in december 1998 Chavez wins the presidency with an actually pro-capitalist speech, he was a totally different kind of president back then and his popularity was huge, with time though, he started to change turning more and more leftish on the way, and being friendly with demonized people like Fidel Castro, but it wasn't until 2002 where he passed anti-latifundist, anti-bank monopoly (glass stegeal act-type) laws and an increase in taxes to foreign oil companies that the unrest that marked the rest of his government started, in 2002 a new right wing party with help from the CIA did a coup d'etat the next day after some people were killed in both pro and anti government protests, Chavez was kidnapped and forced to resign, all powers were dissolved and the president of Fedecamaras took oath as president, Fedecamaras being the biggest association of enterprises of the country. Too many bad things happened in those days, the army got videotapped practicing statements about doing the coup because people died on the streets before the first bullet was fired, the tv showed false videos blaming it on pro-Chavez crowds, the FMI approuved new loans to "rebuild the government from the Chavez regime" the same day the coup happened... it was all a joke. 2 days after the coup people were doing huge protests around the presidential palace demanding Chavez to be brought back, and he was, since then he radicalized his government. Then that same year, in chrismast, the same people that did the coup d'etat sabotaged the oil industry resulting in losses to the nation in the order of at least 20$ billions, scarcity in all products especially food pissed people off quite a lot, but this second attempt was even worse than the first because after 15 days the government re-started the oil production but politically the right wing took the blame of all the country's problems, to this day, basically.
After 2006 he became really power hungry since he won a second term destroying the opposition in the votings, nobody likes them to this day like I said before. In 2010 in the middle of a new economic crisis, this time created by the Chavez government and not due to the same old right wing people his popularity started to drop quite a lot, for the first time he got defeated in an election quite badly (Congress election) and things weren't looking good for his 'socialism', since then capitalism went back with a lot of strenght with a socialist speech of course, a lot of oil fields were privatized and oil companies from all over the world went back to the country to increase oil production, notably from the satanized US and Europe and the new allies Russia and China that were promoted as different types of capitalists because of their obvious backgrounds. That wasn't enough, so gold, iron, all sorts of minerals, etc, were given in a golden plate to other transnationals, even with this the economic recovery wasn't good enough, so in 2012 to win a third term Chavez started a huge policy of social spending, the thing is the government doesn't really have money to keep with this, so the only way to sustain this for a while was drowning in debt, the external debt increased quite a lot, and less than a month ago the currency had to be devaluated 46.5% to cheap the price of labour and debt in the local currency, so the government could keep the social spending with oil-dollars.
As you can see american friends, american intervention in coup d'etats usually goes wrong, if it wasn't for your CIA Chavez probably would have lost in the 2006 election because in 2002 his government wasn't doing good, but somehow warmongers in Venezuela and USA though that killing our people and putting a dictator in place was a great idea and that failed miserably, as if that wasn't enough they tried a second time that year sabotaging the oil industry, paralizing the country because there wasn't any gasoline to go around or gas to cook food, they though it was brilliant because people would blame that somehow on Chavez... obviously it was a huge mistake.
In case you wonder I did vote for Chavez all these years, i'm his supporter but his government was far from good, in comparison to the ones before, though, it was the best we had since 1956, back then we had a right wing dictator that wanted to do elections some day but as you guessed it, he was coup d'etaed with support of the CIA, so they could put a puppet in place. The venezuelan people always remenber that government as being the best of our history, and Chavez without a doubt the second best.
Very insightful! Quoted for visibility.
On March 06 2013 14:25 Swimcito wrote: Maduro is not smart, his education is basically non existent, he was a "bus driver" nothing wrong on that but its not what a President Curriculum Vitae should look like. What about Lula? He was a simple worker, too. And Reagan was an actor.
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A commentary in a swiss newspaper ended his article with: Chavez did much good for venezuela, but with the money he had he could and should have done much more.
That’s probably as close to "reality" as you can get whiteout really living there/seeing behind all of it.
The third richest man on the planet atm is a school dropout (iirc)... So, who cares if someone was a Bus driver? If he has the drive and ability to get that high in politics chances are high that he has his shit together .
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Can't say Im unhappy about this!
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Loved by some, hated by others, this man surely didn't live his life in the shadows.
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On March 06 2013 09:52 Nevermind86 wrote: Being a Venezuelan, I'd like to explain shortly why we will always remenber him and what he meant to the country:
-His government was bad, crime is rampant, inflation, waste of resources, populism, all of it it's 100% true but the governments before were actually worse. He came to prominence as one of the heads of a coup d'etat in 1992 against a two-party system that served the same masters, the venezuelan economic powers, particularly the emerging nouveau rich bankers. Back then the country was comming out of a period similar to what the great depression was to the US because oil prices dropped to 7$, government debt was in a historic high, social spending was being dramatically cut and wages were dropped to the bottom, some 3 years before that, in february 27th 1989, FMI austerity measures were declared, that among other things increased the price of gasoline by 800%, the price of public buses went up accordingly and people that couldn't go to work rioted, the then pro-american government sent the army to the streets and around 3.000 were killed, of course the UN or any international body back then cared and nobody responsible went to jail. It was since then that the two party system was morally bankrupt, so Chávez's coup d'etat even though it was a failure got him on tv apologizing to the venezuelan people for doing it, people loved him since then because he admitted it was a mistake, after popular demand charges were dropped after 2 years in jail.
Then in 1993 a leftish presidential candidate that represented the people that supported Chavez won an election but electoral fraud was rampant and instead a well known extreme right winger took power, his government wasn't so bad until 1995 where banks were going bankrupt and he decided to bail them out, stimulus packet style but the banks still went bankrupt and another economic crisis started. Then in december 1998 Chavez wins the presidency with an actually pro-capitalist speech, he was a totally different kind of president back then and his popularity was huge, with time though, he started to change turning more and more leftish on the way, and being friendly with demonized people like Fidel Castro, but it wasn't until 2002 where he passed anti-latifundist, anti-bank monopoly (glass stegeal act-type) laws and an increase in taxes to foreign oil companies that the unrest that marked the rest of his government started, in 2002 a new right wing party with help from the CIA did a coup d'etat the next day after some people were killed in both pro and anti government protests, Chavez was kidnapped and forced to resign, all powers were dissolved and the president of Fedecamaras took oath as president, Fedecamaras being the biggest association of enterprises of the country. Too many bad things happened in those days, the army got videotapped practicing statements about doing the coup because people died on the streets before the first bullet was fired, the tv showed false videos blaming it on pro-Chavez crowds, the FMI approuved new loans to "rebuild the government from the Chavez regime" the same day the coup happened... it was all a joke. 2 days after the coup people were doing huge protests around the presidential palace demanding Chavez to be brought back, and he was, since then he radicalized his government. Then that same year, in chrismast, the same people that did the coup d'etat sabotaged the oil industry resulting in losses to the nation in the order of at least 20$ billions, scarcity in all products especially food pissed people off quite a lot, but this second attempt was even worse than the first because after 15 days the government re-started the oil production but politically the right wing took the blame of all the country's problems, to this day, basically.
After 2006 he became really power hungry since he won a second term destroying the opposition in the votings, nobody likes them to this day like I said before. In 2010 in the middle of a new economic crisis, this time created by the Chavez government and not due to the same old right wing people his popularity started to drop quite a lot, for the first time he got defeated in an election quite badly (Congress election) and things weren't looking good for his 'socialism', since then capitalism went back with a lot of strenght with a socialist speech of course, a lot of oil fields were privatized and oil companies from all over the world went back to the country to increase oil production, notably from the satanized US and Europe and the new allies Russia and China that were promoted as different types of capitalists because of their obvious backgrounds. That wasn't enough, so gold, iron, all sorts of minerals, etc, were given in a golden plate to other transnationals, even with this the economic recovery wasn't good enough, so in 2012 to win a third term Chavez started a huge policy of social spending, the thing is the government doesn't really have money to keep with this, so the only way to sustain this for a while was drowning in debt, the external debt increased quite a lot, and less than a month ago the currency had to be devaluated 46.5% to cheap the price of labour and debt in the local currency, so the government could keep the social spending with oil-dollars.
As you can see american friends, american intervention in coup d'etats usually goes wrong, if it wasn't for your CIA Chavez probably would have lost in the 2006 election because in 2002 his government wasn't doing good, but somehow warmongers in Venezuela and USA though that killing our people and putting a dictator in place was a great idea and that failed miserably, as if that wasn't enough they tried a second time that year sabotaging the oil industry, paralizing the country because there wasn't any gasoline to go around or gas to cook food, they though it was brilliant because people would blame that somehow on Chavez... obviously it was a huge mistake.
In case you wonder I did vote for Chavez all these years, i'm his supporter but his government was far from good, in comparison to the ones before, though, it was the best we had since 1956, back then we had a right wing dictator that wanted to do elections some day but as you guessed it, he was coup d'etaed with support of the CIA, so they could put a puppet in place. The venezuelan people always remenber that government as being the best of our history, and Chavez without a doubt the second best.
Great post, very informative for us non venezuelans.
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Not happy about a men's death but he sucks and he was just another left wing dictator..
Lots of promisses were made but in the end he was just another guy robbing the people!
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Sad for him
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just another "socialist" loudmouth with awful behaviour...note how he gets the best medical care and all...
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On March 06 2013 20:55 shell wrote: Not happy about a men's death but he sucks and he was just another left wing dictator..
Lots of promisses were made but in the end he was just another guy robbing the people!
same as the USA do day for day?
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Charlie Sheens House51449 Posts
Mad is this like the first president to die (who has been in power at the time) pre assassinations ? Oh wait, there was North Korean dictator too, he died in power.
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Now that I think about it I remember hearing some random cheering on the streets around the time it was announced he had died.
ROFL, people really hated him here. Not entirely unjustified to be honest.
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On March 06 2013 22:32 CrimsonLotus wrote: Now that I think about it I remember hearing some random cheering on the streets around the time it was announced he had died.
ROFL, people really hated him here. Not entirely unjustified to be honest.
Some hate him, some love him. It's quite hard to remain neutral to such a hot figure.
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On March 06 2013 07:12 Enki wrote: Not surprising I guess, he was really sick for awhile and I heard the last few surgeries were not successful. Dunno how I feel about this. Regardless of how he ran his county, he still had some balls to criticize the U.S constantly. A little critisim never hurt , i don't know much about this guy , but dying of cancer sucks . Gl hf
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Well, I´ll definitely miss his 3 hour speeches every time he came here, talking weird anecdotes, Bolivar´s adventures and antiimperialism.
The whole anti-bush act on Mar del Plata sure was fun.
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