Venezuela Good Times...

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Cristina's vision for Argentina...

One of the largest oil reserves in the world and the country is completely FUCKED.. All the specialists and professionals have fled for jobs overseas and Maduro is blaming the USA... This guy.... This is the power of corruption.

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Below is the text from the link which describes the video. It is followed by a translation I made.

Atrapada. Así se siente Patricia Tagliaferri en su país, Venezuela. Esta mujer, funcionario público, ha publicado en las redes sociales un testimonio desgarrador de la vida diaria en su país, bajo la bota del dictador bolivariano Nicolás Maduro.

“Mi nombre es Patricia Tagliaferri, número de identidad 15665341″, comienza el vídeo, que parece más la prueba de vida de un secuestrado reclamando un rescate bajo amenazas. “Estoy haciendo este vídeo porque quisiera que todo el mundo se enterara de lo que el venezolano vive todos los días”.

Y lo que vive todos los días e s no poder comprar pañales o leche a su hijo de dos años, “el único que come algo de carne en casa, porque mi sueldo nos da para tres pollos al mes”. Lo de todos los días es que te roben el coche contigo dentro “tres hombres armados por la noche”, sin que les importara que hubiera un bebé en su interior: “tuvimos que rogar para que no nos mataran”. Lo de todos los días es que te peguen una paliza por “reclamar un horno que le dejaron mal arreglado” a su tía.

“No tengo cómo salir de aquí, nos han empobrecido, y lo único que teníamos para vender, que era el carro, ya tampoco… ¿hasta cuándo vamos a vivir así, cómo vamos a sobrevivir? Hay que rezar, no sé… ya no sé a qué agarrarme…”

Patricia llora ante la cámara desde el primer segundo hasta el final del vídeo, desesperada. Son más de tres minutos que resumen la desesperación de todo un pueblo, mucho más allá de politiqueos, discursos y decretos de estado de excepción . “Los chicos se van a las manifestaciones y nos los matan, salir a la calle es peligroso”.

Patricia lamenta que “este Gobierno nos ha llevado a la ruina”, y grita desesperadamente pidiendo ayuda: “¿Hasta cuándo vamos a vivir así? ¿Cuándo nos van a ayudar?”, y pide que todo el mundo comparta el vídeo por internet: “Denle todos a compartir, todos, para que todo el mundo a nivel mundial se entere de cómo vivimos en Venezuela“.


Trapped. That is how Patricia Agliaferri feels in her country, Venezuela. This woman, a public official, has published on social networks wrenching testimony of everyday life in her country under the boot of the Bolivarian dictator Nicolas Maduro.

"My name is Patricia Tagliaferri, identification number 15665341," begins the video, which seems more like "proof of life" of a kidnapping, demanding a ransom under threat. "I'm making this video because I want the whole world knew how the Venezuelans live every day."

And how she lives every day and is "unable to buy diapers or milk for her two year old son, the one who eats little meat at home, because my salary gives us three chickens a month. So every day they rob your car with you inside "three armed men at night, not caring that there was a baby inside. We had to beg for them not to kill us."

"I have no way out of here. We have become poorer, and all we had to sell was the car, and now (we can't) ... how long we will live, how will we survive? We must pray, I do not know ... I do not know what to hold on to ... "

Patricia weeps on camera from the first second to the end of the video, desperate. There are more than three minutes summarizing the desperation of a people, far beyond politicking, speeches and decrees a state of emergency. "The kids are going to demonstrations and they are killing them. Going outside is dangerous." Lo de todos los días es que te peguen una paliza por “reclamar un horno que le dejaron mal arreglado” a su tía.

Patricia laments that "this government has brought us to ruin" and desperately cries for help: "How long we will live like this? When are they going to help us? She asks you to share the video online: "Give it to all, so all of the world hears about how we live in Venezuela ".


PS: I am somewhat uncertain about the sentence in red that was made by her aunt. I believe it might be a colloquial exp<b></b>ression and something might have been lost in the online translations I made. I hope a native Spanish speaker can enlighten us. The closest I could come is "Every day you are beaten with a stick for making a compliant about an oven that was left in bad repair."

Sra Tagliaferri may be lucky (at least for now) to be able to get three chickens per month. Sadly, It looks like Venezuela's goose is cooked.
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Socialism always end this way. Usually its just a means for a cult leader to accumulate great wealth (see Putin, Chavez, Castro, Christina, et al).

In Florida I met many professional and educated middle class Venezuelans. They were driven out by Chavez who replaced them with immigrants that relied on him for all their needs.

I hope they return and reclaim their beautiful country.
 
In Florida I met many professional and educated middle class Venezuelans. They were driven out by Chavez who replaced them with immigrants that relied on him for all their needs.

I hope they return and reclaim their beautiful country.
It is sad how many well educated professionals have left to work overseas - many of the best geologists and geophysicist are working for the oil majors and other NOC's instead of PDVSA. What a waste of talent, all so the cronies like Maduro and his puppets can live a life of luxury and fill their own pockets at the expense of the population in the name of "socialism"....
 
ARbound
Posted 06 April 2014 - 11:23 AM
  • LocationToronto, Canada
Venezuela is a socialist country just like the USSR right?

I always get a chuckle from those who talk out their ass.

Just because a country has a couple socialist policies does not make it so. Socialism is about equality and I don't think I have to tell you the Venezuela is one of the most on equal nations on Earth.

According to this logic the United States is a communist dictatorship because we have universal k-12 education and we spy on our citizens.

Lastly, the telegraph? Come on, at least use a news organization to back up your claims, not the uk's fox...


That was shortly after I posted this:


steveinbsas
Posted 06 April 2014 - 10:18 AM

It's getting worse in Venezuela...much worse than landlords being forced to sell properties leased for twenty years to their tenants.

This was published today:

"Death in the streets, rationing by fingerprints and a general on the run: how oil-rich Venezuela has descended into chaos"

http://www.telegraph...on-the-run.html

Blame it all on 21st century socialism.

This was posted to the web late last November:

Venezuela: a shining example of how not to help the poor"

http://blogs.spectat...-help-the-poor/

The big question now is, could what is happening now in Venezuela also happen in Argentina?

This was published six weeks ago:

"Argentina and Brazil Preparing For Venezuela Spillover"

http://guardianlv.co...uela-spillover/


The entire thread: http://baexpats.org/...ded-into-chaos/



I have to agree that Venezuela is one of the most equal nations on Earth and is becoming more equal every day.

Socialism makes more people equal: equally poor and miserable, particularly the one that can't escape.
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Venezuela isn't a socialist country, its a military dictatorship.


Is it actually "ruled" by a group of military officers or by one man (with control of the military and/or a national police force)?

Either way, I think the present government qualifies as a dictatorship.

That's what it always takes to implement "advanced" socialism...where the government has increasing control of the people and economic activity.

It doesn't matter if the government "owns" the means of production (which some claim is essential to fit the definition of socialism).

The result is tyranny, whether it is derived from the whims of one man or a group of generals, and when production decreases and supplies of goods are depleted, the results are always the same: shortages, suffering, and even starvation.

The woman who is crying in the video is getting three chickens a month. She has a government job. I wonder how many chickens per month those who don't work for the government are able to get.
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Are the Scandinavian countries Socialist countries? What about the UK with its NHS?
 
As soon as I see "socialism" my mind automatically goes to "the bread line".

For all the western nations with left-leaning socialist groups spewing doctrine promising equality and a better life for the laborer... Well, they've never been in one of the eastern-bloc mines between the 50's and the 90's. The campaigning is all very hopeful but it all ends the same.

Socialism does not work; as long as there is human-nature to screw it up, it shall be screwed up. At least under capitalist-like system a person has some freedom and an iota of a chance to define his/her own future. He/she even has the freedom to belittle the very nation he/she lives in that affords such freedoms... pretty bloody great I think. The alternative is being shot for even speaking your mind in private. The people in Venezuela are trapped by a government [forget the label for now] that maybe seemed like a good idea at the time, but like most- are more interested in representing their 'ism rather than the interest of their population. Often that 'ism is preceded by some persons name.

That should be the first warning bell. Giving a 'ism to some guy who 'seems' to have a good idea that feed the popular rage/ego/lust/etc. of a people who are looking to have a kind of life that can come close to what they see on their TV's.
 
The best explanation of this type of revolutionary "socialism can be found In an excellent video posted by Camberiu featuring Gloria Alvarez a Guatemalan senator about a year ago. However,It is all in Spanish ..
As she adroitly points out, if the Latin American elites had alloted only a few ladders to the poor and lower income groups to climb up to a better economic condition thru social mobility,revolutionary movements like in Cuba and now in Venezuela would probably never have happened.
But,unfortunately,for them and ,in the end,for their entire populations their elites failed to do so.Cuba,as is known,can point to great strides in health and education but then full stop .Venezuela is a complete failure.However,as the saying in Spanish goes,"se lo buscaron ellos mismos".The elites asked for it by their inaction and they got it.Full bast.
I was in Caracas in the 1960s with Perez Jimenez and one could feel the hate between the social strata all the time.It is going to take a huge effort on the part of all Venezuelans and the rest of all of the Americas to help them come out of this with any modicum of success.
 
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