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Caribbean-Latin America
Zero Hedge: what's going on in Venezuela
2014-02-17
As he says, in a nutshell: student led demonstrations are spreading but the working class folks have yet to join in.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Snowy, I'd have stuck with the first seven words.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-02-17 17:05  

#6  Leopoldo Lopez, who has a warrant out for his arrest, is going to lead the opposition march to the Interior Ministry. He plans to halt the march at the entrance and turn himself in. I suspect Sebin (Cuban back intelligence police) are ransacking Caracas to prevent that from happening. Potential is high for drama.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-02-17 16:08  

#5  I am disinclined to believe Zero Hedge about Venezuela when their apparent patrons were the ones who helped the current bunch of assholes steal elections and run the country out of business in the first place
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-02-17 14:59  

#4  What's happening is they're running out of other people's money.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-02-17 14:53  

#3  With Cuban muscle being imported and Marxists sympathizers in the White House, there's little doubt about the outcome for a generation.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-02-17 13:28  

#2  Bloomberg: Pro and Anti Gubbamint rallies in the streets tomorrow. Forecast is for tear gas, dead, and mass arrests. It's falling
Posted by: Frank G   2014-02-17 12:35  

#1  Massive government spending, years of nationalization and an overreliance on imports for basic consumer goods have radically deteriorated inflation levels, and undermined industrial production.

Could well be talking about North America.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-02-17 11:04  

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