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
Archae
(46,318 posts)It's the CIA's/Illuminati's/Jewish/Nazi's fault!
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's that nobody to his right has any better ideas or any positive intentions.
7962
(11,841 posts)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
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)cstanleytech
(26,283 posts)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.