Protests continue after Venezuelan diplomatic win

[Judi Lynn]

19. Apparently everything was A-OK with you when Ven.'s inflation was 103%

in the 1990's, before Chavez was inaugurated in February, 1999.

Any and all of those Presidents were peachy keen with this government, even when Pres. Carlos Andres Perez, who was later impeached and moved away from his wife to live with his mistress in a condo he bought her in Miami, ordered his troops to go into the barrios where people were protesting the fact he had raised the cost of heating oil, transportation, and groceries beyond their ability to afford, and fire directly into the midst of them, leaving over 3,000 dead. The government claimed it only slaughtered 300, but people knew who was gone, and it most clearly was NOT 300. There were so many a bulldozer was required to roll many into a mass grave.

THAT is simply sweet to right-wingers. That's the ticket. You just wipe out those darker-skinned poor people and get rid of them, and there is NEVER a peep of disapproval, NEVER, from the walking dead assholes of the right-wing. That President, by the way, who stole the Venezuelan taxpayers blind, who ordered the infamous "El Caracazo" Massacre, continued to be a hero to the very class of people you adore who are determined to put their monsters back to work getting all the oil profits back in the hands of the small group of professional criminals who ran the country in earlier days, before Chavez.

Media outlets have not noted that in the decade prior to Chavez’s elections, the average inflation rate was 52%, with peaks of 81% (1989) and 103% (1996).

Violence in Venezuela: the myths versus facts
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
By Federico Fuentes
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56008