Venezuelan civil servants signed a petition to oust the president. Now they’re losing their jobs.

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Source: Washington Post

“You must know what you did,” Eva Belloso’s boss said to her when she was fired without notice this month after 24 years with Venezuela’s tax and customs service.

Belloso, who was coordinator of legal services at Seniat (as the agency is known) in Zulia state, said she told her boss she had no idea, “unless it has something to do with my signature for the recall referendum.”

“That must be it,” her boss said, according to her account.

The same thing happened that week to Juvenal Rosales, a nine-year Seniat employee in Caracas — with one difference: Rosales got an oblique heads-up.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/23/venezuelan-civil-servants-signed-a-petition-to-oust-the-president-now-theyre-losing-their-jobs

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1. Despite the privations of dismissal, including the loss of retirement benefits, some fired Seniat em

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Despite the privations of dismissal, including the loss of retirement benefits, some fired Seniat employees say they would sign the petition again.

“There’s no place for regrets here,” Belloso said, adding that she was proud of her decision and had made it for her children’s future. “I’d rather be unemployed with a clean conscience than be an accomplice in the horrible situation that the country is going through.”

It sure is tempting to think back to a time when we were that principled, but it has always come along with an extra price paid by one group or another.

Still, it is refreshing to see what we could be.

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2. The "revolution" continues its spiral down the toilet, where it belongs

As the people flee the country. Soon no one will be left to force into slavery