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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, When Do They Bomb Venezuela?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/venezuela-seizes-a-gm-plant-amid-antigovernment-protests/2017/04/20/e58a229c-25c7-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html?utm_term=.09fdd964c98cVenezuelan authorities seized a General Motors plant Wednesday, an unexpected move that appeared aimed at provoking U.S. authorities and distracting attention from intensifying protests against President Nicolás Maduro.
The plant takeover happened on the same day that huge crowds of demonstrators marched against Maduros government, calling for new elections and a return to democratic rule.
GM called the expropriation of its plant an illegal judicial seizure of its assets and vowed legal action to defend itself. The company is not the first foreign firm whose assets have been confiscated by Venezuelan authorities, but those actions have typically been preceded by repeated public threats from the socialist government.
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So, When Do They Bomb Venezuela? (Original Post)
JimGinPA
Apr 2017
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. Maduro needed a distraction from the protests demanding his resignation. Sound familiar?
Trump needed a distraction from the investigation into his Russia-ties.
Kim Jong Un needed a distraction from the poverty and oppression in his country.
Dr. Strange
(25,919 posts)2. Venezuela contributed to Trump's inauguration.
Nitram
(22,791 posts)3. Um, so who in particular are they going to bomb, and who is going to bomb them?
doc03
(35,325 posts)4. Well we could bomb them into the stone age,, regime change, take their
oil and the MSM would eat it up.
MFM008
(19,804 posts)5. or a MOAB or 3
OR OR 59 missiles at an empty airfield.....