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Tell me again how Shitler and his henchman are not covertly underming yet another too far Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #1
Its ugly, and dangerous.. pbmus Feb 2018 #2
Stupid comments like this prop up gov'ts like Maduro rpannier Feb 2018 #6
Intelligent comments like mine that insult no one but Shitler recognize history. Sad others Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #12
Useful idiots, I believe the words that Vlad Lenin used GatoGordo Feb 2018 #15
Lenin? Too funny! Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #83
My apologies rpannier Feb 2018 #66
Maduro is a piece of shit Blue_Tires Feb 2018 #69
Oh please can you say oil ? No knowledge at all ..hmm lunasun Feb 2018 #3
LMAO pbmus Feb 2018 #4
Venezuela has a lot of shitty oil. GatoGordo Feb 2018 #20
How is that? 2naSalit Feb 2018 #31
The vast majority of Venezuelan oil is heavy sour GatoGordo Feb 2018 #33
Oil is oil. All oil is processed. Most light crude already tapped out. Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #84
Venezuelan crude melm00se Feb 2018 #67
Glad he can joke about it lapfog_1 Feb 2018 #5
It is amazing Perseus Feb 2018 #7
You are not looking at the disease...and if you pbmus Feb 2018 #13
The situation in the United States is nowhere near the situation in Venezuela GatoGordo Feb 2018 #17
Maduro's Brown Shirts and Bolivarian National Police GatoGordo Feb 2018 #21
The VZ military is likely the last hope of the country. Otherwise the pop will continue to flee. 7962 Feb 2018 #8
The VZ military has, with the help of Cuban 'advisers' been riddled COLGATE4 Feb 2018 #11
Well, that figures I guess. I really don't know whats next. Famine? nt 7962 Feb 2018 #23
i think they're already in the famine stage. When you have COLGATE4 Feb 2018 #25
Wow, didnt know it had sunk to that level. 7962 Feb 2018 #26
There are several. My money (in the event that this were to COLGATE4 Feb 2018 #27
I was just thinking how quiet it seemed to be, in the media, about Latin America. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #9
No one needs to destabilize Venz., they have done that just fine on their own. EX500rider Feb 2018 #54
That's Venezuela's only hope. But can we believe anything Tillerson says? Nitram Feb 2018 #10
So Maduro turned out to be corrupt? Cha Feb 2018 #22
Chavez was corrupt. He picked Maduro, so what would you expect? 7962 Feb 2018 #42
If it happens, it'll be like I predicted. Archae Feb 2018 #14
we already tried this trick on Chavez. Most of the military AND people backed Chavez yurbud Feb 2018 #16
Unfortunately for Venezuela.... GatoGordo Feb 2018 #18
Thank you. Odd how different HALF a story can sound! 7962 Feb 2018 #24
Things have changed a great deal since Chavez departed the scene. Nitram Feb 2018 #30
because of the collapse of the price of oil. I suppose common folks wouldn't have noticed yurbud Feb 2018 #35
Maduro and the Chavistas are the 1%. Chavez' daughter Maria is worth over $4 billion. GatoGordo Feb 2018 #47
Maduro was a bus driver then a union leader oddly, I had to get through a lot of right wing sources yurbud Feb 2018 #70
It was well on its way before Chavez died. This would have resulted if he'd lived. 7962 Feb 2018 #44
Maduro had his own successful coup in 2017. EX500rider Feb 2018 #72
The military is fully infiltrated over the last 18 years with Cuban advisers and sympathizers GatoGordo Feb 2018 #19
and troops that support the oligarchs are motivated by what? yurbud Feb 2018 #36
A primer on Venezuela GatoGordo Feb 2018 #46
Sounds like Rex is fomenting a coup. WhiteTara Feb 2018 #28
Maduro doesn't need to worry, Cold War Spook Feb 2018 #29
Yup... 2naSalit Feb 2018 #32
Tillerson knows nothing about the Venezuean military GatoGordo Feb 2018 #34
so...we don't like oligarchs in Russia, but we should like them in Venezuela? yurbud Feb 2018 #37
The current oligarchs in Venz. are Maduro and his cronies. EX500rider Feb 2018 #38
not quite yurbud Feb 2018 #39
Yes, quite. EX500rider Feb 2018 #40
Nuh uh. Fraid not. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #41
Oh, ok. And why is he wrong? 7962 Feb 2018 #43
Because he's attempting to spin our heads, by backing the people who always back oligarchs, Mc Mike Feb 2018 #49
Anybody who thinks Maduro and the Chavistas are the "good guys".. EX500rider Feb 2018 #68
OK... I'll bite. Who are the oligarchs in Venezuela these days? GatoGordo Feb 2018 #45
You got my assessment, in post 9, which you breezed on by, GG. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #48
But your "assessment" is laughable. You skip over the reasons for oil being higher. 7962 Feb 2018 #50
Your 'assessment' of my assessment isn't laughable, it's pitiful. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #55
Your "assessment" isn't based on anything close to factual. GatoGordo Feb 2018 #60
Of course I "mean nothing to you". Neither do the people of VZ apparently. 7962 Feb 2018 #64
Your analysis is waaaay off... but lets examine it. GatoGordo Feb 2018 #59
Now THIS is an analysis based on FACTS. Thank you. nt 7962 Feb 2018 #65
That's often what we say when we read an editorial that validates our biases. LanternWaste Feb 2018 #75
Its what I say when I read FACTS. Do you dispute them? Then provide contrary evidence. You wont. 7962 Feb 2018 #77
Lantern, please don't interrupt the Latin American political experts. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #81
I guess if I couldn't refute anyone's post & info I might post that too.. EX500rider Feb 2018 #82
If that is your idea of a well thought out rebuttal I would ask your schools for a refund. EX500rider Feb 2018 #80
I especially liked how you supported your premise with objective evidence LanternWaste Feb 2018 #74
Anyone familiar with with current events in Venz knows that. EX500rider Feb 2018 #76
Some would do well to read up on a topic, wouldn't they? 7962 Feb 2018 #78
Here: EX500rider Feb 2018 #79
If we had a real State Department, the secretary would be working with procon Feb 2018 #51
That is called diplomacy...not in the Big Con playbook pbmus Feb 2018 #52
You really brought them out of the wood work, with this o.p. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #56
Thanks...our diplomacy is very important pbmus Feb 2018 #57
Agreed, keep up the fight, pb. nt. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #58
"shoring up" a economy that is set up to fail is a losing proposition EX500rider Feb 2018 #53
There is no shoring up Venezuela GatoGordo Feb 2018 #61
Venezuela is too socialists for our 1%'s taste, so they must suffer yurbud Feb 2018 #71
The Venz. govt has ruined their economy so the people of Venz. are suffering. EX500rider Feb 2018 #73
If I remember correctly oneshooter Feb 2018 #62
60% of the oil they lift goes to Russia and China for debt payments to those countries for services GatoGordo Feb 2018 #63
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