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Maduro blames the World Cup for airlines decision to cut flights to Venezuela
President Nicolás Maduro said the World Cup is to blame for international airlines’ decision to cut flights to Venezuela and denied that the move had anything to do with his government's refusal to allow them to repatriate proceeds from ticket sales inside the country. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo the flights have stopped because of the World Cup and “some European airlines have reprogrammed their flights“ and “they’re diverting flights to Brazil.”
May 24th, 2014 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0But then he states that ”those that leave the country, won’t be allowed to come back“.
So which is it? Have they just ”reprogrammed their flight” or have they left the country?
Because it will be hard to explain when their flights don't return to normal after the World Cup....... or is that when they will be banned from returning?
I wonder how long it took the bus driver to think up that excuse to explain away the airlines deserting Venezuela?
May 24th, 2014 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuela has to be respected??? What a laugh. This guy's nose gets longer by the minute. They won't want to be coming back there you freaking idiot.
May 24th, 2014 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0He's an imbecile ... Plain and simple... !!
May 24th, 2014 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro - another prat who has no qualifications to hold office; similar antics to those of CFK. Soon she'll be blaming the Falkland Islanders for Arg loosing the world cup!
May 24th, 2014 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He is not threatening the airlines that if they stop flying to V that he's going to ban them?
May 24th, 2014 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What?
They just want to be paid
Marxists are so stupid.
Aaaaaarrrrrrrggģgggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
May 24th, 2014 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The fool. The stupid stupid foool!
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome foool!
MADuro you have utterly lost the plot!
I am losing my sanity watching him destroy Venezuela.
Aaaaaarrrrrrrggģgggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
(retires to corner knashing teeth with much renting of clothes)
It just might be that there are other reasons closer to home.
May 24th, 2014 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If there is little or no trade going on in and from Venezuela, why on earth would airlines continue flying empty aeroplanes?
“”Maduro said that “bourgeois” news media opposed to his government are spreading lies about airlines’ reasons for suspending flights”. .....don't see why the airlines need to lie. Isn't the fact that they can't exchange their 4 billion dollars at the official exchange rate (artificially low) good enough reason to get the hell out ?? Foreign airlines should stop calling VZ altogether, just to show the busdriver who dictates the rules.
May 24th, 2014 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well said, ilsen. I said years ago when Chavez was the head honcho that the country was a danger to all of South America.
May 24th, 2014 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@10 Mendoza Canadian
May 25th, 2014 - 12:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well said? I can barely f*ckin speak!!! I am spitting teeth!
But thank you anyway!
Feckin MasBurro! You Donkey!
When International Airlines start pulling out of ones Country surely this is the time to take a good, long hard look at what YOU ARE DOING WRONG!
Mas-Burro !!! You twat!!!
What kind of business is this?
“if you leave now, you won't be allowed back”???
They are global businesses, they go where the money is. They serve their consumers.
They don't care about your opinion nor your ideology. Fool!
The Airlines don't care if they are 'allowed' back or not. Only if they can make money.
They don't give a shit for your opinion you donkey arse-wipe!
You can't even provide toilet paper, soap, bread or milk for your people.
Meanwhile the people suffer and you claim a success for socialism.
Wanker.
Well Done MaDurro. You are on the way to completely isolating your country!
The man is a complete f*ckin tosser!
Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh!
This country is a joke what a bunch of loosers.
May 25th, 2014 - 02:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0for good quality insights go here
May 25th, 2014 - 04:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://panampost.com/topics/south-america/venezuela/
One recalls that the Cuban Government, specifically Mr. Raul Castro, stated that they were very pleased with the prospect of Mr. Maduro being the ideal replacement for Mr. Chavez as Venezuelan President.
May 25th, 2014 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0And what a fine job he has done.
Mr. Maduro has become the laughing stock of South America. No imagination or leadership whatsoever. The riots continue, cannot hold Mercosur conferences, vital shortages continue, and Mr. Maduro cannot pay any of his ever increasing debts.
He must have seen a re-run of “ Blame it on Rio ”
Compañeros, instead of picking a quarter horse to run with, you ended up with a running lackey, only a burro, and a dumb one at that.
@14 Raul Castro said that a the dumb bus driver is easily to manipulate.
May 25th, 2014 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The airlines must band together and all pull out at once pretty much leaving the place to be another North Korea.
The airlines can then negotiate with the next government on their terms.
@ 15 Klingon
May 25th, 2014 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The airlines can then negotiate with the next government on their terms.”
The first one being: pay us the money you owe us with interest and then we'll think about it.
The correct statement is that Maduro's Government, has not paid to several Airlines local and international airlines for their services to and from Venezuela, so it has nothing to do with the Brazil World Cup.
May 25th, 2014 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In addition, personal security is in high risk counting to that product prices are extremely high, because the country inflation is around 40% and on top of it, basic products , among others such as soup and detergents, toiled paper and newspapers are in scarcity, while most streets in Caracas are in march since students and people protest and its open public demonstrations are not welcome to tourist.
Kirk Nelson,
New York, NY, USA
Tourists?
May 25th, 2014 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's a laugh!
Not currently in my bucket list.
But things will change!
The Cubans are running things in Venezuela. They are happy with a dumb puppet as leader in Venezuela - no resistance there.
May 26th, 2014 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0He is Carackers.
May 26th, 2014 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The airlines won this battle. They got 50/1 exchange rate and they can repatriate their money.
May 27th, 2014 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I love watching Socialism (stupidity) fail.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
May 31st, 2014 - 02:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro: “Scientific evidence of conspiracy to be shown soon”
[Yesterday] President Maduro again announced that he will soon reveal the evidence of a plan to use local military to “generate chaos in the country.”
“I will show a scientific investigation, (…) that shows how some politicians are constantly plotting a coup d’état [reincidentes en golpe de Estado], even some who are deputies of the National Assembly, and some business people linked to Miami too. [They] are plotting to try to buy members of the Armed Forces. (…) They are preparing to attack the institutions of the Fatherland in order to generate a general chaos in the country. (…) Justice will be made with this malevolent plan. Enough of imperialist coups! Enough!” Maduro declared.
Posted by Hugo Pérez Hernáiz at 12:06 PM
(Professor of Sociology, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. On Twitter @hphernaiz)
Well, Maduro, where is it then?
Fool.
@22, it's all for domestic consumption....but MADuro very likely will produce some cooked up evidence, just to “prove” what a good president he is and that he can't understand why he is being criticized...
May 31st, 2014 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Socialist Paradise. All is well and good.
May 31st, 2014 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Says Maduro.
Many think differently.
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