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brooklynite

(94,502 posts)
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 01:03 PM Jun 2015

Venezuela's struggling socialists hold primaries for parliamentary vote

Source: Reuters

Venezuela's ruling socialists held primaries on Sunday ahead of December's parliamentary election they are forecast to lose due to a biting recession and discontent with the late Hugo Chavez's uncharismatic successor.

The South American country is suffering shortages of basic goods ranging from spare parts to milk and medicines, annual inflation possibly in the triple-digits, and unchecked violent crime.

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"The revolution doesn't work like it used to. You don't feel that emotion anymore," said a teacher at a state-run school in a low-income part of Caracas, who is disappointed with President Nicolas Maduro, the former bus driver and union leader she helped elect in 2013.

Still, the 50 year-old woman who asked not to be named, was voting on Sunday, in part because she fears for her job if she does not support the government.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/28/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKCN0P80I920150628

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Venezuela's struggling socialists hold primaries for parliamentary vote (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2015 OP
Maduro can do no wrong people in 3-2-1... Archae Jun 2015 #1
Not "Maduro can do no wrong" Ken Burch Jun 2015 #2
So then the only BETTER ideas are further LEFT? Please. 7962 Jun 2015 #3
70% would vote for the opposition, 25% for chavistas Bacchus4.0 Jun 2015 #5
Maduro and the rest of the government needs to just apologize and agree to make cstanleytech Jun 2015 #4
They're just like my bosses; never admit you're wrong. nt 7962 Jun 2015 #6
 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
2. Not "Maduro can do no wrong"
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 01:34 PM
Jun 2015

It's that nobody to his right has any better ideas or any positive intentions.

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
3. So then the only BETTER ideas are further LEFT? Please.
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 02:52 PM
Jun 2015

There's nothing left to seize from anyone who is still in the country. The most oil-rich country in the world is broke and its not the fault of anyone to the right of Chavez/Maduro

cstanleytech

(26,283 posts)
4. Maduro and the rest of the government needs to just apologize and agree to make
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 03:25 PM
Jun 2015

reparations to the companies whos property they seized in order to get back foreign investment.
But I kinda doubt they will do that because I suspect that they are afraid the people would turn on them.

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