{"id":16339,"date":"2020-02-10T02:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16339"},"modified":"2020-02-10T02:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T09:20:06","slug":"venezuela-is-reality-setting-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/02\/10\/venezuela-is-reality-setting-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Is Reality Setting In?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After a year of over <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2020\/01\/03\/bolivarian-police-force-killed-over-5000-venezuelans-in-2019\/?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">five-thousand innocent Venezuelans<\/a> dead, including <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2020\/01\/22\/maduro-butcher-oscar-perez\/?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">targeted assassination<\/a>, amongst other <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200122213210\/https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2020\/01\/22\/maduro-thugs-raid-juan-guaidos-offices-hes-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abuses of power<\/a>, people are still willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/mamela-fiallo\/2020\/01\/15\/chavez-and-evo-morales-bolivians-destroy-socialist-monuments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stand up against the tyrant Maduro<\/a>, and his friends in <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/hana-fischer\/2020\/01\/17\/secret-maduro-uruguays-government\/?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other countries<\/a>.<\/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;Yet, while Maduro seems happy to stand up against Venezuelans, he doesn\u2019t seem very capable of standing up against the foreign powers that are propping him up. <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2020\/01\/17\/russian-soldiers-missions-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russian soldiers are actively involved<\/a> in military missions, perhaps to protect their <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2020\/01\/28\/venezuela-may-forced-sell-off-oil-company-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">future interest<\/a> in Venezuela\u2019s oil company. Ironic, then, that Maduro and Chavez before him destroyed their country in order to keep a firm and exclusive nationalist grip on their oil industry. It has gotten so bad that a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlvesToomas\/status\/1219454714594463745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">foreign ambassador<\/a> has been made a member of the Venezuelan cabinet\u2014Bolivar must be spinning in his grave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well this is novel: the Cuban ambassador was just made a member of the Venezuelan cabinet. Haven&#39;t really seen that kind of move before, even in the Stalin era in Eastern Europe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S9J6F5oqgz\">https:\/\/t.co\/S9J6F5oqgz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlvesToomas\/status\/1219454714594463745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But there are signs that end end may be near for the Maduro regime. Either it will fall and be nothing more than a vassal of foreign nations, or perhaps the <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/jovel-alvarez\/2020\/01\/28\/caracas-mayor-venezuela-guaido\/?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposition will rise<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/maduro-embraces-capitalism-venezuelan-emigres-090000638.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposition to the free market will fall<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/maduro-venezuela-ready-talks-u-145621856.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monroe doctrine<\/a> be revised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, even this abject failure of socialism in Venezuela hasn\u2019t stopped some from thinking that it wasn\u2019t just \u201cdone right\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/panampost.com\/mamela-fiallo\/2020\/01\/03\/ecuador-21st-century-socialism\/?cn-reloaded=1&amp;cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it\u2019ll be different if<em> they <\/em>tried it<\/a>&#8230;<\/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: Is Reality Setting In?\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"After a year of over five-thousand innocent Venezuelan's dead, including targeted assassination, amongst other abuses of power, people are still willing to stand up against the tyrant Maduro, and his friends in other countries.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"\nhttps:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Flag_of_Venezuela_1954-2006-small.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After a year of over five-thousand innocent Venezuelans dead, including targeted assassination, amongst other abuses of power, people are still willing to stand up against the tyrant Maduro, and his friends in other countries. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet, while Maduro seems happy to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/02\/10\/venezuela-is-reality-setting-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,24],"class_list":["post-16339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339","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=16339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16341,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339\/revisions\/16341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}