{"id":14193,"date":"2017-12-04T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2017-12-04T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:30:12","slug":"venezuelas-socialist-success-story-where-some-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/12\/04\/venezuelas-socialist-success-story-where-some-are-more-equal-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Socialist &#8220;Success Story&#8221;: Where Some\u2026 Are More Equal Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuela slips ever more easily into the typical &#8220;success&#8221; story of all socialist regimes: Where the Nomenklatura live in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hannahdreier\/status\/926453745516531712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opulence<\/a>, and the great unwashed masses who are supposed to be the masters of their socialist utopia enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/venezuela\/article182770351.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lack of healthcare<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/11\/06\/starving-venezuelans-now-resorting-unexpected-food-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feasting upon emaciated zoo animals<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/venezuela-introduces-100000-bolivar-bill-worth-2\/a-41202082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joys of hyperinflation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Venezuela&#39;s president, already mocked for gaining weight amid a hunger crisis, pulls out an empanada from his desk during a live TV address. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sPw63dbt83\">pic.twitter.com\/sPw63dbt83<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hannah Dreier (@hannahdreier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hannahdreier\/status\/926453745516531712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All this socialist &#8220;success&#8221; has wrought the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pressure-builds-on-venezuela-with-big-payments-due-this-week-1509010203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/14\/news\/economy\/venezuela-debt-default-sp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">miracle<\/a> of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/11\/03\/maduro-investors-todays-great-day-bailout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic default<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2017\/11\/russia-throws-venezuela-a-lifeline-as-the-socialist-country-flirts-with-default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bailout from Russia<\/a>. Yet this oh-so-socialist state doesn&#8217;t throw out the dictator Maduro? It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/es.panampost.com\/orlando-avendano\/2017\/10\/31\/maduro-amenaza-opositores-elecciones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not for a lack of trying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Opposition was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-opposition\/venezuelan-anti-maduro-governor-sacked-opposition-in-chaos-idUSKBN1CV2MR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purged<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laht.com\/article.asp?ArticleId=2444692&amp;CategoryId=10717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elections<\/a> have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/10\/19\/venezuela-opposition-claims-evidence-tampered-vote-count.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questionable<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-venezuela-fell-victim-to-clear-manipulation-in-election-1509615002?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best<\/a>. No wonder, then, why the opposition to Maduro doesn&#8217;t see any reason to keep joining in on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-41812179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the &#8220;success story&#8221; of socialism in Venezuela: Foreign economic domination, poverty, the death of democracy, and lack of any other freedom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maduro-venezuela-noms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maduro-venezuela-noms.jpg 549w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maduro-venezuela-noms-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/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 Socialist -Success Story' - Where Some\u2026 Are More Equal Than Others\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Venezuela slips ever more easily into the typical 'success' story of all socialist regimes: Where the Nomenklatura live in opulence, and the great unwashed masses who are supposed to be the masters of their socialist utopia enjoy the lack of healthcare, feasting upon emaciated zoo animals, and the joys of hyperinflation.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/maduro-venezuela-noms.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuela slips ever more easily into the typical &#8220;success&#8221; story of all socialist regimes: Where the Nomenklatura live in opulence, and the great unwashed masses who are supposed to be the masters of their socialist utopia enjoy the lack of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/12\/04\/venezuelas-socialist-success-story-where-some-are-more-equal-than-others\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,17],"tags":[19,65,22],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","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=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14195,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions\/14195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}