Venezuela's poor join protests as turmoil grips Chávez's revolution

[MADem]

44. Well, it's quite clear that you are indulging in blatantly false character assassination.

You may think you are "sure" but all you are is surely wrong.

You have no argument, so your only option is to invent falsehoods about my attitudes towards the people of VZ.

Incompetent leaders with bus driving credentials SHOULD drive buses. You know why? Because incompetent leadership keeps poor people poor--moreover, it makes middle and working class people poor.

Ask the students who backed Hugo Chavez, who are now wearing white in the streets, if they wish Maduro would go back to bus driving. I'll bet plenty would say that's too good for him.

You clearly have no clue how badly people have been affected by Maduro's failure to lead, and that is rather compellingly reflected in your obtuse remarks!

But don't believe ME....ask a few Venezuelans:

Venezuelans have a million reasons to protest. We have one of the highest murder rates in the world – two people per hour – rampant inflation at a rate of 60% a year, basic products like milk, oil, sugar, chicken are not available in supermarkets, if we want to travel we have to go through a bureaucratic nightmare to be able to buy foreign currency limited to less than £2000 a year, we have no liberty of expression if we do not concur with the governments ideas we are completely ignored. We are protesting for our lives and our dignity.

Official numbers put 2013 inflation rate at around 56% and murder casualties at more than 24000, two numbers that have only increased during 15 years. Scarcity of everyday goods is raising, corruption is rampant... but instead of listening to the protests who very accurately point at the government, what we have gotten is repressive use of the public force AND armed civil gangs which has resulted in at least 6 deaths, hundreds of injured and dozens of students in jail. All of this has been silenced from national media because of heavy censorship.We’re sick of hearing this sorry excuse for a president to blame “the Empire” and the “far-right” as culprits of his own mess.

There are many shortages and rationing... you cannot find margarine, sugar, P.A.N arena (maize), flour, toilet paper, washing up liquid, bleach, and milk and bread are rationed from shop owners. Cement, car parts, foreign goods too. It is almost impossible to buy an international air ticket as airlines have not been allowed to change the soft Bolivar for hard currency so they don’t sell tickets in Venezuela but you can buy the same flights in dollars at the arrival location.

Jobs are few and a reasonable salary is about £50/month... people are a lot worse off due to inflation and devaluation. Crime and the murder rate are one of the highest in the world.

Venezuelan people, all of them want and deserve better. Everyone is complaining, including government tied voters.

But hey, nothing to see here...move along, now!


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/02/venezuela-end-petro-populism-2014219502850774.html

Don't look!

Pay no attention to those "poor people" asking for justice now--they apparently aren't the right sort of "poor people" to suit you!