{"id":18870,"date":"2022-01-04T02:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T09:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18870"},"modified":"2022-01-04T02:39:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T09:39:02","slug":"venezuela-new-year-same-ole-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/01\/04\/venezuela-new-year-same-ole-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: New Year; Same Ole\u2019 Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite decades of glorious socialism, the once most prosperous nation in Latin America continues see <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/karen-townsend\/2021\/06\/30\/ap-venezuelan-migrants-are-crossing-u-s-border-in-droves-n399680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people fleeing in drove<\/a>s from this so-called utopia. And what a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/12\/10\/socialism-destroyed-his-homeland-heres-a-venezuelans-warning-for-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tale<\/a> of this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/milagros-boyer\/2021\/01\/29\/three-key-moments-to-remind-us-that-the-un-is-a-nest-of-oppressive-regimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">happy little socialist state<\/a> is being told of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2021\/08\/slow-learners-on-the-left-3.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">starvation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/topstories\/nation\/798267\/venezuela-to-slash-six-zeroes-from-currency-central-bank\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endemic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/latino\/574603-more-than-75-percent-of-venezuelans-now-living-in-extreme-poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poverty<\/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;Unsurprisingly, electoral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/venezuela-opposition-partake-elections-strategy-shift-2021-08-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempts to oust<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.panampost.com\/jose-gregorio-martinez\/2021\/06\/15\/maduros-trial-falls-behind-despite-coordination-between-interim-government-and-icc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the tyrant Maduro<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2021\/11\/23\/socialist-party-wins-regional-elections-in-venezuela-n431181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed<\/a>. Nothing says \u201cfree and fair elections\u201d like a dictator who will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-tuesday\/youre-either-with-maduro-or-youre-against-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroy<\/a> all <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2021\/10\/17\/venezuela-jails-american-hostages-after-extradition-n422921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dissent<\/a>, and will bother helping out <a href=\"https:\/\/babalublog.com\/2021\/08\/29\/socialist-venezuelan-chavistas-flood-social-media-in-defense-of-cubas-communist-dictatorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fellow socialist dictatorships<\/a> like <a href=\"https:\/\/babalublog.com\/2021\/06\/21\/reports-from-cuba-cuban-oppovnents-unite-to-work-for-the-transition-to-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuba<\/a> oppress their people. Indeed it is a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-caribbean-newspapers-nicaragua-436acd129da807962751c530effdb343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shining example<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/elections-boycotts-united-states-election-2020-central-america-f6814f4bce601643c6c0bf31496cb695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tyrants everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, even countries that know better are embracing the seductive drug of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/leftist-gabriel-boric-wins-chile-231550211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">socialist Leviathan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some lessons need to be learned more than once, and sadly, innocent people will suffer for it.<\/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: New Year; Same Ole\u2019 Repression\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Despite decades of glorious socialism, the once most prosperous nation in Latin America continues see people fleeing in droves from this so-called utopia.  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And what a tale of this happy little socialist state is being told of starvation and endemic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/01\/04\/venezuela-new-year-same-ole-repression\/\">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":[17],"tags":[19,65,24],"class_list":["post-18870","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\/18870","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=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18871,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions\/18871"}],"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=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}