{"id":18376,"date":"2016-02-27T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T18:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18376"},"modified":"2016-02-28T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T14:11:37","slug":"this-is-how-government-dealt-with-dissent-and-revolt-in-collapsing-venezuela-soldiers-shooting-civilians-in-the-streets-paramilitaries-roaming-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18376","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Government Dealt With Dissent And Revolt In Collapsing Venezuela \u2013 \u201cSoldiers Shooting Civilians In The Streets, Paramilitaries Roaming Neighborhoods\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Is How Government Dealt With Dissent And Revolt In Collapsing Venezuela \u2013 \u201cSoldiers Shooting Civilians In The Streets, Paramilitaries Roaming Neighborhoods\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
Editor\u2019 Note: The initial report about this incident was printed in error. While the videos and images below were believed to be recently recorded, several readers contacted us to report that\u00a0these incidents occurred in\u00a0February 2014\u00a0and not\u00a0February 2016.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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We have modified portions of this article but have left the majority of this report intact. In terms of possible responses and consequences of economic collapse in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, the events in\u00a0Venezuela could happen anywhere when governments lose control of the populace.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Venezuela is in complete chaos as a result of their economic collapse.<\/p>\n

And as a result,\u00a0state-rationed food and groceries have run out<\/a><\/strong>, prices are hyper-inflated and millions of people are waiting in huge lines for any goods that are available. Black markets have gone boom, with neighbors making necessities available to other neighbors, but they must avoid crackdown from a jealous State that is desperate to hang onto power.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0free-fall of oil prices on the global stage<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has snapped the South American socialist nation into sudden and harsh disaster. Venezuela has slightly more oil than Saudi Arabia, and trades the second largest volume, after OPEC, and was even more vulnerable than\u00a0Russia to the economic warfare<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that has taken place in the last few years.<\/p>\n

Things are very bad now, and they were already falling apart. Nicolas Maduro took over after Hugo Chavez\u2019 death in 2013, but without the force of Chavez\u2019 cult of personality, he has been unable to hold an already unrealistic economy together any longer \u2013 and the people are on the verge of complete revolt.<\/p>\n

*Editor\u2019s Note: The following reports were taken in 2014 but are as relevant to the conversation today as they were then*<\/em><\/p>\n

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This Is How Government Dealt With Dissent And Revolt In Collapsing Venezuela \u2013 \u201cSoldiers Shooting Civilians In The Streets, Paramilitaries Roaming Neighborhoods\u201d Editor\u2019 Note: The initial report about this incident was printed in error. While the videos and images below were believed to be recently recorded, several readers contacted us to report that\u00a0these incidents occurred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3484,236,3712,281,522,1775,600,12701,694,827,851],"class_list":["post-18376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dissent","tag-economic-collapse","tag-economic-warfare","tag-europe","tag-middle-east","tag-oil-price-collapse","tag-opec","tag-paramilitary","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18384,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions\/18384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}