{"id":15327,"date":"2019-01-14T05:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T12:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15327"},"modified":"2019-01-14T05:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T12:34:53","slug":"can-the-venezuelan-disaster-be-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/01\/14\/can-the-venezuelan-disaster-be-contained\/","title":{"rendered":"Can The Venezuelan Disaster Be Contained?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And just how bad is this &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/think-ice-cube-venezuela-became-disaster-state-203859002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disaster state<\/a>&#8220;? Gasoline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-20\/gasoline-shortages-grip-venezuela-s-capital-ahead-of-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shortages<\/a> despite having the largest proven reserve of oil of any nation, being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-17\/venezuela-s-15-cent-phone-bills-come-complete-with-no-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billed for non-existent phone service<\/a>, and women having to sell their hair, their breast milk, and even their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/venezuelan-women-sell-hair-sex-and-breast-milk-to-survive-as-country-crumbles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bodies<\/a> just to survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5016\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Venezuela_Dead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Venezuela_Dead.jpg 437w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Venezuela_Dead-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As Venezuela continues to suffer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-venezuela-maduro-reelection-20190109-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maduro<\/a> is set to be &#8220;reelected&#8221; to another term in his <em>de facto<\/em> Presidency for Life. And if things are so bad, where is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/chavistas-and-anti-chavistas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition<\/a>? Being <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/12\/18\/venezuelan-government-crushes-dissent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crushed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001307555\/nine-military-personnel-jailed-for-plotting-to-overthrow-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisoned<\/a>, or if they are lucky, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-politics\/former-venezuela-supreme-court-judge-flees-to-u-s-denounces-maduro-idUSKCN1P00OU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fleeing<\/a> from Maduro&#8217;s clutches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is the horror that is Venezuela gotten so bad that it no longer can be contained, but rather is spilling out to affect others? If the increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2019\/01\/10\/rest-latin-america-turning-venezuelas-dictator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international opposition<\/a>, especially within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/peru-enforces-tough-measures-venezuela-migrants-181226180700710.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin America<\/a>, to the dictator Maduro is any indication, the answer is YES. It&#8217;s not just the <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/12\/23\/venezuelan-exodus-passes-3-million-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive exodus<\/a> of millions of people fleeing Venezuela, the United States is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/americas\/192890-190110-venezuela-is-a-cradle-of-terrorism-member-of-underground-resistance-group-tells-i24news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> for Maduro&#8217;s removal for being a cradle of terrorism, the Bank of England is refusing to hand over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bullionstar.com\/blogs\/ronan-manly\/bank-of-englands-refusal-to-return-venezuelas-gold-sets-a-worrying-precedent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 metric tons of gold<\/a> just as they are being sued over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-bonds\/florida-firm-sues-venezuela-for-34-million-over-unpaid-bonds-idUSKBN1OI073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unpaid bonds<\/a>, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/m.theepochtimes.com\/eu-says-ready-to-take-action-if-venezuelan-situation-further-deteriorates_2762525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a> is calling for action if things get much worse. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/12\/26\/oh-great-russia-takes-venezuelas-oil-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> and others of their ilk seem happy to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">help<\/span> <em>rip off<\/em> Venezuela.<\/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=\"Can The Venezuelan Disaster Be Contained?\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"And just how bad is this 'disaster state'?  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Gasoline shortages despite having the largest proven reserve of oil of any nation, being billed for non-existent phone service, and women having to sell their hair, their breast milk, and even their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/01\/14\/can-the-venezuelan-disaster-be-contained\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,9,22],"class_list":["post-15327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-europe","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327","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=15327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15328,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions\/15328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}