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An Update on Venezuela

by Ex-PH2••21

The last I read was that Maduro had gone into hiding somewhere, although he seems to appear on TV making speeches on a recurring basis.

But the turmoil is getting worse than ever before. While Maduro’s side claims it has plenty of popular support and accuses the protesters of being right-wingers (!), there are more and more reports of food shortages and no water available.

Some members of the Venezuelan National Guard are siding with Venezuelans and Guaido, demanding reforms and (yes) food and running water, and an end to the turmoil. A group of them has been arrested.

The newly-elected President Juan Guaido sides with Venezulans, not with Maduro, as follows:

Juan Guaido, a 35-year-old newly seated as president of congress, shrugged off the court’s warning and reiterated his call for people to take to the streets Wednesday — a historic date commemorating the end of Venezuela’s military dictatorship in 1958 — to demand Maduro abandon power.

“The National Assembly is the only institution elected by the people of Venezuela,” Guaido said at a press conference at the legislature. – Article.

This link is to a Navy Times article about the dire situation underway down there in that benighted country.  https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/22/venezuela-quells-military-revolt-officials-say-27-plotters-arrested/?utm_source=clavis

Please keep the people of Venezuela in your thoughts.

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21 thoughts on “An Update on Venezuela”

  1. My first serious girlfriend as a teenager was a *smokin’ hot* Venezuelan.
    I wonder where she is now and how she is.
    She eventually got married and had a kid last time I saw her, had gotten her U.S. citizenship, last, we had lunch a few decades ago.
    Every time I hear “Venezuela” I think of her.
    I sure as hell hope she never went back down there.
    She told me her family (from the 1980s) told her things were getting dicey way back then.

      1. I need to see pancake tits and bloated bellies before I believe that. When is the Concert for Caracas?

  3. Don’t know if it’s true, but I read this morning that several US military aircraft were seen parked at an airfield outside of Bogota. No further info, so…

  4. The richest country in South America, with huge oil reserves and well developed extraction and export infrastructure

    Was wrecked to appalling poverty and mass starvation

    In -one- generation.

    -totally- wrecked.

    socialism! It really does work if done right by the right folks! Really! It just hasn’t been done right by experts yet! You just need to be told again how it will work this time. C’mon! One more try!

    1. SOCIALISM, a form of Government SO GOOD that it has to be kept upon a population at gunpoint!

      1. Hopefully , Maduro, his wife and all his cronies suffer the same fate as Ceauescu.

    2. Let’s not forget that Hugo Chavez’s daughter is still among if not THE richest in Venezuela!

    1. Hondo,

      She can stay there as well…FOREVER…

      Am still betting she won’t last….just my two pennies…😏

      1. I’ll contribute to the price of tickets if she’ll haul Stacey Abrams with her. DNC may be grooming SA to take AOC’s place. SA is toeing the party line and on the same song book page. We in GA are concerned that SA is gunning for the N GA Senate Seat. That area includes the ATL & Augusta Metro Areas, both very heavily dem now.

    3. A perfect spot to showcase her Green New Deal- no time wasted with choking a country’s economy to death.

      It’s already there.

  7. Their might be $840 million in Venezuelan gold heading to the airport, a Russian charter jet with two crews is fueled and waiting.

  8. Where is Commissar? Shouldn’t he be defending Maduro or schooling everyone on how wrong this is?

    (sarc)

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