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Drought, El Niño, Blackouts and Venezuela
Drought, El Niño, Blackouts and Venezuela It’s fashionable these days to blame everything that goes wrong with anything on human interference with the climate, and we had yet another example last week when President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela fingered drought, El Niño and global warming as the reasons Venezuela’s lights keep going out. In this […]
Venezuela Runs Out Of Electricity, Will Shut Down For A Week, El Nino Blamed
Venezuela Runs Out Of Electricity, Will Shut Down For A Week, El Nino Blamed When last we checked in on our favorite socialist paradise, Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro’s opponents “had gone crazy.” Or at least that’s how Maduro described the situation in a “thundering” speech to supporters at what he called an “anti-imperialist” rally in […]
Venezuela isn’t looking too hot
Venezuela isn’t looking too hot If anarcho-capitalists should move to Somalia, then socialists – especially, “social democrats” — should move to Venezuela. The country is a complete disaster. But don’t take my word for it, read what a Caracas homemaker said after she tried to buy three cans of sardines and was ordered to put one back […]
Amid “US Coup”, Venezuela Takes Another $5 Billion Loan From China
Amid “US Coup”, Venezuela Takes Another $5 Billion Loan From China The people of Venezuela can rejoice… not so fast. Amid paranoid-sounding (though not unlikely) rantings about US-created coups (and blaming ‘economic’ war for his nation’s Socialist utopia hyperinflation), it appears President Maduro just got another life-line (or more rope to hang himself). After begging China’s leader […]
MAYBE OBAMA’S SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA ARE NOT REALLY ABOUT HIS “DEEP CONCERN” OVER SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL RIGHTS
MAYBE OBAMA’S SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA ARE NOT REALLY ABOUT HIS “DEEP CONCERN” OVER SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL RIGHTS The White House on Monday announced the imposition of new sanctions on various Venezuelan officials, pronouncing itself “deeply concerned by the Venezuelan government’s efforts to escalate intimidation of its political opponents”: deeply concerned. President Obama also, reportedly with a straight face, officially declared that Venezuela poses “an extraordinary […]
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. – Malcolm X On January 30, 2015, El Universal, one of the big […]
Thousands march against Venezuelan president
Thousands march against Venezuelan president Protesters rally against sky-high inflation and shortages of food in Caracas, demanding President Nicolas Maduro resign. Thousands of protesters have marched in the Venezuelan capital banging pots and pans over shortages of food and demanding an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s term in office. Demonstrators poured on to the streets […]
Oil Falls as Goldman Cuts Outlook While Venezuela Seeks Recovery
Oil Falls as Goldman Cuts Outlook While Venezuela Seeks Recovery Oil fell to the lowest level in more than 5 1/2 years as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reduced its price forecasts andVenezuela called on OPEC producers to work together to spur a recovery. Futures slid as much as 3.3 percent in London after a seventh weekly […]
Venezuela, Iran Leaders Join to ‘Neutralize Schemes Against OPEC and Stabilize Oil Price’
Venezuela, Iran Leaders Join to ‘Neutralize Schemes Against OPEC and Stabilize Oil Price’ TEHRAN, Iran—Iran and Venezuela vowed Saturday to work together to stabilize falling global oil prices as Iran’s supreme leader accused “enemies” of using crude prices as a political weapon. With Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by his side, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged OPEC members to […]
“Now There’s Not Even Soap” Maduro Heads To China To ‘Save’ Socialist Utopia Venezuela | Zero Hedge
“Now There’s Not Even Soap” Maduro Heads To China To ‘Save’ Socialist Utopia Venezuela | Zero Hedge. Social media is awash with striking images of #EmptyShelvesInVenezuela (#AnaquelesVaciosEnVenezuela) as the evaporation of basic human staples such as toilet paper has now been hyperinflated to total chaos at warehouses and supermarkets. As President Maduro decries the loss of […]
