{"id":15771,"date":"2019-07-08T03:09:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15771"},"modified":"2019-07-08T03:09:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:09:30","slug":"venezuela-the-tyrants-and-the-tyrannized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/07\/08\/venezuela-the-tyrants-and-the-tyrannized\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: The Tyrants and the Tyrannized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Chavista hellhole that Venezuela has become seems to be surviving due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/13\/americas\/chinese-aid-arrives-in-venezuela-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assistance from foreign<\/a> nations like China and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-7-4-tons-of-venezuelas-gold-landed-in-africaand-vanished-11560867792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">selling off<\/a> of what little assets Venezuela has&#8230; and also <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2019\/05\/15\/piracy-and-hijacking-maduros-new-strategy-to-evade-sanctions-and-ship-oil\/?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piracy and hijacking<\/a>. After all, they have to fund those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-48873500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death squads<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/06\/journalist-kidnapped-venezuela-annika-hernroth-rothstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kidnappings<\/a> somehow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11746\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Flag_of_Venezuela_1954-2006-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Flag_of_Venezuela_1954-2006-small.png 512w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Flag_of_Venezuela_1954-2006-small-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/editor\/2019\/05\/20\/venezuela-options-on-the-table\/?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aren&#8217;t many options<\/a> left, as the self-declared interim President Juan Guaido is <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2019\/05\/22\/end-game-juan-guaido-ready-negotiate-maduro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">folding<\/a>, leaving few people left aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2019\/06\/25\/maduros-ex-spy-chief-washington-hes-spilling-beans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former regime baddies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And all the while, the people continue to suffer. Not only is the country with the worlds greatest oil reserves suffering an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2019\/07\/03\/the-hard-facts-behind-venezuelas-oil-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oil crisis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/2019\/06\/11\/inflation-below-1-million-percent-but-ve?videoId=561453137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inflation<\/a> at just under one million percent (with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/once-forbidden-u-dollar-suddenly-090041583.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Dollars<\/a> replacing inflated currency), but hospital shortages have become a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/hospital-shortages-death-sentence-venezuelan-children-055220806.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death sentence for children<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/29\/736573450\/venezuelas-teachers-and-students-skip-school-for-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">schools are dying off<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdbstormtrooper\/status\/1139432428756525056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infrastructure is self-destructing<\/a>, and towns are otherwise slipping into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-economy\/with-venezuela-in-collapse-towns-slip-into-primitive-isolation-idUSKCN1T823D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">primitive isolation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Poor maintenance on the power grid in Venezuela causes fire. Socialism sucks <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lvjtz4ftw5\">pic.twitter.com\/Lvjtz4ftw5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stormtrooper \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@jdbstormtrooper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdbstormtrooper\/status\/1139432428756525056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2019<\/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;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s gotten so bad, that not only are the people <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2019\/06\/18\/venezuela-looters-stripping-dead-cemeteries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looting graves<\/a> and stripping the dead, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/venezuela-crisis-so-bad-criminals-cannot-afford-bullets-2019-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criminals can&#8217;t even afford bullets<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You know it&#8217;s bad when crime <em>really<\/em> doesn&#8217;t pay. But then, the government hates competition&#8230;<\/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: The Tyrants and the Tyrannized \"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Chavista hellhole that Venezuela has become seems to be surviving due to assistance from foreign nations like China and the selling off of what little assets Venezuela has... and also piracy and hijacking.  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