{"id":18132,"date":"2021-06-21T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18132"},"modified":"2021-06-21T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:27:01","slug":"venezuela-settling-for-decline-as-tyranny-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/06\/21\/venezuela-settling-for-decline-as-tyranny-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Settling For Decline As Tyranny Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Good news: U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/jose-gregorio-martinez\/2020\/12\/01\/united-states-sanctions-on-chinese-censorship-company-hurt-maduro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sanctions on a Chinese company<\/a> hurt Maduro. Bad news: The Biden administration considers these <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2021\/03\/09\/bidens-reboot-policy-toward-venezuela-looks-troubling-n380517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sanctions to have \u201cfailed\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3996\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maduro_Stalin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maduro_Stalin.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maduro_Stalin-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is why the people fleeing Venezuela, as people still flee from Cuba, even <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/gabriela-moreno\/2020\/12\/14\/venezuelans-have-died-fleeing-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the risk of their own lives<\/a>. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/latin-america-venezuela-caracas-colombia-54ea1b1edff33480a9542f1ece3b15d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the opposition has fled<\/a> Venezuela, which is a sensible thing to do with a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/oriana-rivas\/2021\/01\/08\/chavista-assembly-begins-witch-hunt-against-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doubled down witch hunt<\/a> against enemies of the regime. This certainly makes it <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2020\/12\/04\/venezuelan-dictator-holding-elections-opposition-boycotting-n377231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">easier<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/rick-moran\/2020\/12\/06\/venezuelan-opposition-boycotts-election-handing-maduro-a-cheap-victory-n1194635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engage<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/sabrina-martin\/2020\/10\/21\/maduro-electoral-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electoral fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is not to say the opposition hasn\u2019t done nothing, in fact they have gotten into\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/us-government-maduro-venezuela-stablecoin-crypto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cryptocurrency<\/a>. Not that Venezuela\u2019s currency needs any help <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/gabriela-moreno\/2020\/12\/03\/fatal-diagnosis-monetary-cancer-eats-away-at-venezuelas-financial-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-destructing<\/a>, which is why Venezuela is moving away from the Bolivar to\u2026 the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/oriana-rivas\/2021\/01\/28\/dollarization-advances-in-venezuela-with-debit-cards-for-foreign-currency-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Dollar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And what has this lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/milagros-boyer\/2021\/01\/07\/venezuela-two-assemblies-without-any-legitimacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legitimacy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/jose-gregorio-martinez\/2021\/01\/25\/two-years-of-guaido-no-democracy-in-venezuela-corruption-multiplied\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corruption<\/a> lead to in this glorious ongoing revolutionary hellhole? Even <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/esp-mb-jgm\/2021\/01\/25\/venezuela-where-corruption-is-covered-up-with-more-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more corruption<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/venezuela-seizes-offices-of-critical-newspaper-11621087391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repression<\/a>! Oh, and also collapse of <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/bryan-preston\/2020\/12\/09\/cnn-exposes-horrific-hospital-conditions-in-venezuela-but-omits-direct-mention-of-the-main-cause-n1199879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthcare<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/oriana-rivas\/2020\/12\/14\/deterioration-human-rights-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human rights<\/a>, and ability to fight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/coronavirus-venezuela-vaccine-maduro\/2021\/02\/08\/99ee1200-663a-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corona-chan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You\u2019d think that Venezuela would be a warning to other countries in Latin America, but clearly the siren call of repression has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/nicaragua-spirals-deeper-into-repression-as-ortega-jails-rivals-and-former-allies\/ar-AAL4jLs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ortega in Nicaragua<\/a> emulating Maduro in Venezuela, all while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/news-columns-blogs\/andres-oppenheimer\/article251704833.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peru<\/a> votes to destroy itself.<\/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: Settling For Decline As Tyranny Spreads\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Good news: U.S. sanctions on a Chinese company hurt Maduro.  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Bad news: The Biden administration considers these sanctions to have \u201cfailed\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is why the people fleeing Venezuela, as people still flee from Cuba, even at the risk of their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/06\/21\/venezuela-settling-for-decline-as-tyranny-spreads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[19,65,35,48],"class_list":["post-18132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-rip","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132","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=18132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18133,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132\/revisions\/18133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}