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Caribbean-Latin America
The biggest worry in crisis-ridden Venezuela: crime
2016-06-07
Long piece at the LA Times. Strangely, the reporter waxes on in multiple paragraphs about the crime problems of this long suffering country without connecting the dots to understand that it's the socialists of the Chavez/Maduro government that have wrecked the country. Apparently it's all just "bad luck" in the Heinlein sense.

And clearly the reporter doesn't get that Bernie, Hilarity and the DNC would do the same thing to the U.S. if only they could.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  "This time, we'll get it right"
Posted by: Frank G   2016-06-07 18:37  

#7  Didn't Obama or someone hold up Venezuela as the 'socialist model' we should all strive for not to long ago? Or was it Cindy Sheehan?

Some of them know full well where the socialist path leads - they just believe that 'they' will be on top. Perhaps they haven't realized the fact that the 'top' is a very small space.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-06-07 17:27  

#6  Leaders set the tone.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-06-07 14:22  

#5  And clearly the reporter doesn't get that Bernie, Hilarity and the DNC would do are doing the same thing to the U.S. if only they could.

Yes, sir. I believe they have already made significant progress.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-06-07 12:24  

#4  Bigcityians like LAoids are inured to abnormal social behaviors, ala crime.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-06-07 11:10  

#3  Crime is one mechanism for controlling an otherwise unruly population and for justifying more government control / fewer individual rights. The Soviets used it. Blue states use it.
Posted by: Iblis   2016-06-07 10:46  

#2  Ah yes - "crisis-ridden."
Posted by: Pappy   2016-06-07 08:39  

#1  History and pattern analysis are actually quite revealing. The rape of a nation by socialist oligarchy is generally followed by food riots and peasant crime. The rape of a nation by democratically elected oligarchy is more insidious and takes a bit longer. The resultant patterns of political turmoil, inflation, shortages, unrest, and exodus are pretty much the same. In either case, I'm not betting on the peasants. They seem to always finish last.

Posted by: Besoeker   2016-06-07 03:28  

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