{"id":14911,"date":"2018-08-27T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2018-08-27T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:40:48","slug":"venezuela-purging-the-military-purging-basic-necessities-purging-the-people-from-venezuela-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/08\/27\/venezuela-purging-the-military-purging-basic-necessities-purging-the-people-from-venezuela-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Purging the Military; Purging Basic Necessities; Purging the People from Venezuela Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What better excuse to make potential dissenters within a regime disappear than a gold old fashioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/maduro-drone-attack-prompts-fears-of-crackdown-by-venezuela-government-against-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assassination attempt<\/a>? Why, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/aug\/12\/nicolas-maduro-assassination-attempt-puts-venezuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">none<\/a>, of course. Whether this drone attack was a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/was-the-maduro-assassination-attempt-a-false-flag-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">false flag<\/a>&#8221; operation or an honest attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2018\/08\/07\/what-that-alleged-drone-attack-on-venezuelas-dictator-means-for-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get ride of Venezuela&#8217;s own anal boil<\/a> is irrelevant at this point, &#8216;twould seem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Meanwhile, as Maduro enjoys getting rid of enemies, the people of Venezuela continue their ever downward spiral of suffering, now without any way to save <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victimsofcommunism.org\/witnessblog\/2018\/8\/9\/venezuelas-most-vulnerable-infant-mortality-rates-rise-as-maduros-policies-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dying infants<\/a>, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/picture\/venezuelas-taps-run-dry-idUSRTS1XI7G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">without water<\/a>! That entire Venezuelan states are without <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KalebPrime\/status\/1028823775234715648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric power<\/a> for days is of no concern to the tyrant Maduro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All shitty memery aside this is actually happening right now.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my birth state has been without electricity for nearly three whole days now and there&#39;s barely any media coverage of that emergency here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vZslWCALyT\">pic.twitter.com\/vZslWCALyT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaleb (@KalebPrime) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KalebPrime\/status\/1028823775234715648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018<\/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;And how does Maduro deal with this? By laughably hiding the hyper-inflation by ordering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/18\/maduro-orders-96-percent-devaluation-in-venezuela.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">96% devaluation of its currency<\/a>! Of course, the Bolivar as currency is probably the last thing that the resurgence of <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/08\/13\/pirates-making-comeback-collapse-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pirates<\/a> (yes, actual pirates of the Caribbean, and not the Disney-fied version) who are plaguing the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What else can the people do aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/un-says-an-estimated-23-million-people-have-fled-venezuela\/2018\/08\/14\/3b7f3166-9ff6-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flee<\/a>? If things get much worse, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-migration-brazil-government\/brazil-has-not-ruled-out-closing-border-with-venezuela-minister-idUSKCN1L524Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won&#8217;t even be able to do that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venezuela is an abject lesson on exactly why populism and socialism are <em>even more<\/em> deadly in combination than either alone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker-940x198.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker-small.jpg 510w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Maduro-Joker-small-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Venezuela: Purging the Military; Purging Basic Necessities; Purging the People from Venezuela Itself\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"What better excuse to make potential dissenters within a regime disappear than a gold old fashioned assassination attempt?  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