{"id":13853,"date":"2017-09-06T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2017-09-06T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:37:33","slug":"venezuelas-maduro-formalizes-his-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/09\/06\/venezuelas-maduro-formalizes-his-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Maduro Formalizes His Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuelans are <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/venezuela-is-demanding-freedom-against-a-tyrannic-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crying out for freedom<\/a> and respite from the hellhole\u2014where girls as young as twelve are <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/08\/26\/girls-young-12-turn-prostitution-survive-venezuelas-socialist-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced to prostitute themselves<\/a> in order to avoid starvation\u2014 that Maduro, following in the footsteps of his predecessor, has built, but those cries will no longer have any voice: Maduro&#8217;s extra-constitutional &#8220;National Constituent Assembly&#8221; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/venezuela\/article168007622.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">usurped power<\/a> from the elected Venezuelan congress\u2014the last and only governmental body held by the opposition. Maduro&#8217;s dictatorship has formalized absolute power over the country, and over the people, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/08\/27\/venezuelan-dictator-takes-next-step-isolating-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silencing of any dissent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3996\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maduro_Stalin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maduro_Stalin.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maduro_Stalin-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Like any other dictator worth his authoritarian salt, he has either <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2017\/08\/14\/underreported-meet-2-political-prisoners-from-socialist-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisoned the opposition<\/a> who will face <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/30\/venezuelas-socialists-approve-treason-trials-for-opposition-leaders\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treason trials<\/a> in kangaroo courts, or he has send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/venezuela-ex-attorney-general-says-contract-killers-set-201550045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assassins<\/a> to murder those who have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/267688\/venezuelas-attorney-general-flees-country-david-paulin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">escaped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Cj4pWUb1PA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While the Venezuelan people are suffering and starving, Maduro now seeks to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2017\/08\/14\/desperate-for-cash-venezuela-gives-putin-control-of-oil-assets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sell his country out to Russia<\/a> for a pittance and enough support to remain in power. For a regime that prided itself on pushing out foreign control and bringing ownership back to &#8220;the people&#8221;, the <em>de facto<\/em> overlordship by Russia would be the highest of ironies if it weren&#8217;t so predictable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Everything Maduro and Chavez claimed to be fighting against is exactly what they&#8217;ve achieved by their own tyranny. As is oft said, a government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have, and Venezuela has become the perfect example of that.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Venezuela's Maduro Formalizes His Dictatorship\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Maduro's dictatorship has formalized absolute power over the country, and over the people, including the silencing of any dissent.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maduro_Stalin.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuelans are crying out for freedom and respite from the hellhole\u2014where girls as young as twelve are forced to prostitute themselves in order to avoid starvation\u2014 that Maduro, following in the footsteps of his predecessor, has built, but those cries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/09\/06\/venezuelas-maduro-formalizes-his-dictatorship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,35],"class_list":["post-13853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13854,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions\/13854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}