Great work, Hugo
Venezuela’s socialist idiot leaders probably didn’t intend to destroy their nation’s economy and ruin millions of lives.
It’s just that, being socialists and idiots, destruction and ruin were always going to happen. Christina Sulbaran reports from that tragic, shattered country:
The descent began in the early 2000s when the Hugo Chavez government began to take control of elections, private companies, the judiciary and the police. The descent turned into a nosedive when Nicolas Maduro came to power and the state tightened its grip on oil production, our country’s main source of revenue.
Investors fled and skilled workers emigrated. As living standards plummeted, the response was to print more money. Hyperinflation has been the result …
We don’t go out after dark – those who do take huge risks. A friend’s son was kidnapped on his way back from the cinema, with the perpetrators demanding an extortionate ransom. Tragically, kidnappings work. A six-figure sum is demanded and families scrape together to pay.
Even basic medicines are increasingly scarce now in Venezuela, but I’m lucky to have a son who sends me thyroid pills from abroad.
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enough of the script to keep commerce and the exchange of goods and services within the colonies, in balance. When King George and the Bank of England heard of this, they quickly passed legislation in the House of Commons to require that all taxes to the crown would be paid in gold and silver. Then in further retaliation the British government increased the taxes on the colonies in the form of the Stamp Act and taxes on Tea. This act by the British quickly depleted the gold and silver of the colonies and led to a virtual depression. The only outcome of this was to force the colonials between a rock and a hard place, leading them to revolt against the King. In response to the revolt of the New World colonials, the King sent in the troops and the guns and a revolution was born. If you don’t think that history will repeat itself, you will find that the artificial bubble you are living in is a mirage. 













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