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Next Tuesday Venezuelan president Maduro will begin governing by decree
Venezuela's legislature gave initial backing this week to a measure granting extraordinary powers over the economy to President Nicolas Maduro, which means next Tuesday, when the second vote, he will be able to govern by decree without having to seek parliamentary approval. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesUnfortunately Britards are in no position to pint out how supposedly undemocratic other countries are. Put your own house in order.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Famous US Constitutional lawyer says of Britain's disregard for civil rights:
“This is a country with a history of repressing press freedoms, that has no constitutional guarantee of a free press. I mean, they still have a queen. Is there anything more primitive and authoritarian than a fucking monarchy?”
http://tinyurl.com/britainfuck
I'd rather listen to the United Nations, AMnesty International, the Red Cross, Reporters without borders and other actual establised and respected sources who consistently place South American countries and Venezuela particularly as places where the restriction of the press, the destroying of civil liberties and the destruction of the environment are commonplace. If you can tell me why the Hispanic population of South America have any more right to be where there are than the White population of Africa, I would be damn surprised. When are you going to hand the land and governments back to the original inhabitants as has happened in Africa? Before you do this, I suggest you keep your mouth shut about civil liberties and constitutions.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0#1 Oh please. This “famous” lawyer can't be very clever if he doesn't know the fucking difference between a constitutional monarchy and an absolute monarchy. This lawyer just sounds like another pathetic anglophobe.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I'd rather listen to the United Nations”
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0hahahaha
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/uk-reputation-edward-snowden-un
@1 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Famous US Constitutional lawyer'? You mean Glenn Greenwald. The ex-constitutional lawyer, now a journalist with a chip on his shoulder because his boyfriend was arrested by UK authorities for possessing stolen security information.
I'm not sure who the bigger prick is. Greenwald or you!
You mean a Guardian story quoting a UN official saying that it “might have hurt our reputation”. That is one of the most weak statements ever.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0According to Reporters without Borders the UK press is free. Beyond that, despite the fact that we (like those well known authoritarian countries of Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, and Canada), are a constitutional monarchy we are much more democratic than most republican democracies.
#5 “... with a chip on his shoulder because...”
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Coming up with bogus terrorism charges against one's family over non-violent activities tends to make to make people resentful, imagine that!
“You mean a Guardian story quoting a UN official saying that it “might have hurt our reputation”. That is one of the most weak statements ever.”
The UN isn't as tough on Western rogue states, especially those with UNSC seats, as it is on the poor and starving countries such rogue states (such as Britain) like to bomb and sanction - is that a surprise? The willingness to slam Britain is nonetheless worth of note, just as it was the UN's criticism, no matter how softly worded, of the US's thuggish treatment of Bradley Manning. Usually this treatment is reserved to poor countries in Africa and Asia. When it is aimed at Western countries, it therefore catches ther eye, and it should.
By the way, if the fact that it was The Guardian that covered this story that is bothering, know this Italian outlet also noted the UN's disapproval of Britain's petty-authoritarian witchhunt: http://www.beppegrillo.it/movimento/parlamento/affaricostituzionali/2013/11/per-una-nuova-legge-sul-diritto-daccesso-incontro-con-frank-la-rue.html
You mean the former US Constitutional lawyer who used to work for the Guardian.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0“How The Guardian Is Quietly and Repeatedly Spying on You ”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/how-the-guardian-is-quiet_b_3923408.html?utm_hp_ref=glenn-greenwald
“Bob Cesca.” I may as well give you something signed by the NSA prez himself, after all you Britards apparently take up as holy word everything Western governments say anyway. :-)
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0The US Constitutional lawyer who is the keynote speaker at the “Faith in Freedom” dinner on November 16th. run by the Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR,
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Greenwald “there really is no organization with which I’d rather be spending my time, or with which I feel more at home than CAIR.”
“...dinner on November 16th. run by the Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR...”
Nov 16th, 2013 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0...which infiltrated the White House with its top Kenyan Muslim Brotherhood agent, President B'Arab Hussein Osama, to destroy America and the West from within. OMG, you're onto something here, agent - smell Pullitzer!
:-)))))))))))
Nov 16th, 2013 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0ForgeTit86 or whatever number it is today
Nov 16th, 2013 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is this it? The best you can come up with?
Greenwald and his stupid boyfriend? Not understanding Monarchy, ha, ha, ha? You will be telling us next that you have a brain, ha, ha, ha.
Crawl back to the Brazilian cesspit or wherever it is you “live” and leave the grown-ups to discuss things in a rational manner.
The official free market is now effectively dead in Venezuela. The only market reflecting the reality of supply and demand will be the black market. And now their 'democracy' has given their leader full reign to indulge his paranoia.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm going to regret bitterly the day I told Chrissy he's ugly 30 months ago (is the month count correct, btw?). :-(
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh my God. A disterous day for Venezuela and for any hopes of democracy taking root in that region. Any bets on how long it will be before they invade Guayana.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Decree No 1 The omnibus of State will hence forward be conducted by a little yellow bird
Nov 16th, 2013 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guarantee all the stores have cancelled future orders and shipping to VZ.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Give it 2 months and you are really going to see some shortages on the shelves.
I dont see what the news is here... Venezuela has being a dictatorship for a while now. Illegitimate president too.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thankful Venezuela has gotten rid of that pesky democratic millstone from around its neck so that it can now advance boldly and confidently to the socialist nirvana that is just around the corner.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I mean think how difficult it is for poor Maduro when the entire county and its economy is seemingly being run by someone else (either the opposition, the US or a right wing conspiracy) and not by those elected to do the job such as Congress and the President.
Well now that Congress is out of the way, the President can finally fix all the problems…….
……or can he?
Thank God Venezuela won't end up like Europe where people live like HUNGRY DOGS because of Capitalism's FAILURE. Millions of Europeans living like hungry dogs.Thank God for Chinese investment or else......
Nov 16th, 2013 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So will V get kicked out of MercoSur for being un-democratic now?
Nov 16th, 2013 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 021 Socialismo
Nov 16th, 2013 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please tell me you are taking the piss? Ha, ha, ha.
Back to the topic:
I wonder if the little bird has warned him that in all probabiltiy he is now much closer to the “bullet”?
I also wonder if the military (ha, ha, ha) put him up to this so that when the inevitable failure occurs they can “rescue” the country by executing him?
All this whataboutery. Strawmen for the fascist buffoon in the straw hat. So desperate to distract from Maduro's desperation to hold onto power against the opposition AND the more competent folk in his own PSUV.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 What's with the insecurity?
Nov 16th, 2013 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21 Oh good, ever since the failure of socialism in the USSR, eastern europe, China and every other place that's tried it, I've only been really able to laugh and point at North Korea and Cuba. You are a very welcome addition to the fools brigade.
Seems to be official now....Venezuela is no longer a democratic nation, not that it was before, only now it is official. Man the concept of giving a ignorant bus driver unchecked powers.......he will fuck up big time....or if he has a brain steal from the nation (the SA way) and give to those in places that could end his life, in Venezuela....the military.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Businessmen.....leave the country while you can.
No international industry in their right mind will invest there now. China might but that still remains to be seen.
@ 25 Orbit
Nov 16th, 2013 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unless straw hat proves to an absolute genius at running an economy, and able to completely eradicate corruption, in a very short space of time, i.e. a few months, the economies of N. Korea and Cuba will be shining compared to that of Venezuela.
From this point on, the whole Venezuelan economy, or what’s still functioning of it, can be crashed very quickly, by decree.
Did not read the full story, seemed to be little point really, the headline was enough.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here's a new definition of democracy for some, not all of our Latam friends.
Democracy : you do not always get your own way!
he will be able to govern by decree without having to seek parliamentary approval.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0is this not Dictatership.
mmmm
Sounds like a dictatorship. WTF am I saing, it is a dictatorship!
Nov 16th, 2013 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0WE ARE ALL CHAVES.
To quote Stevie.
ha ha.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's all very well laughing at these loons but it's the poor people of Venezuela who will suffer this stupidity.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am hoping Stevie is still getting MP as he hasn't been heard of for a few days.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even he would have a real problem putting this in a positive light, but no doubt he will come up with something!
Chris.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We've been having a good laugh at the antics of this man, but it's like Swiss Bob says, in the end it's the poor bloody Venezualans that will suffer.
Saying that, wtf will they learn!!!
33. He's here he's just using another person. Stevie got boring.
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All hail the great Chaves!
Nov 16th, 2013 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We are all Chaves!
Release the the blue birds of the the glorious Bolivarian Revolution.
Sound the trumpets in the Ministry of eternal happiness..
Psst! You got ant paper I need a crap?
Sorry, will Bolivars do?
Stupid cnuts! Funniest people on the planet!
@22 Yankee
Nov 17th, 2013 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0That is a good question. Why doesn't V get kicked out of Mercosur now?
Is Mercosur going to even express one iota of concern over this move by one of its members?
This is NOT a dictatorship, it is democracy with limited voting rights taken to the extreme: 1 voting bird.
Nov 17th, 2013 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0How long before we see a revolution in Venezuela?
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Nov 17th, 2013 - 01:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0And the big bus driver, who only accepts Bolivars to ride the bus, now states “ Route ? What route ? ..... I don't need any route ! I've been just been granted extraordinary powers, and can drive anywhere I want by decree ! ”
Nov 17th, 2013 - 05:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0So with low fuel, a poorly maintained engine and tires, and dusty windows ( no paper to wipe the glass ), the big bus driver in the fashionable track suit hurtles off down the road, heading for the inevitable ditch, with his passengers crying to be let off.
How anyone could possibly consider anything published in the Guardian worthy of belief I just cannot fathom. It is a dishonest “rag” with a minimum readership and on the brink of bankruptcy. Sorry are the people like Forgetit86 who use this publication as a basis for their immature and nonsensical arguments.
Nov 17th, 2013 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0I've read that as a bus driver Maduro was pretty ordinary and that he rarely showed up to work. His lack of ability as the leader of Venezuela is taking that country in a very predictable trajectory to self destruction. Many countries have done the very things he is doing with tragic results. I feel sorry for the people of Venezuela but you get the leaders that you deserve, so too bad for them.
Nov 17th, 2013 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0@21 Hi, Stevie. Got a new “name”, eh? Same old crap, though. Venezuela will finish up like all the other half-baked, doomed, socialist, nut-job dictatorships. Possibly the Stone Age. Still, no-one needs it. Any more than Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay or argieland are needed.
Nov 17th, 2013 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.mdzol.com/nota/501216-maduro-demanda-a-diario-por-mostrar-a-empresario-llorando/ Security guards hauling a business man off for interrogation...and the whole world sees it and M throws a hissy fit.....
Nov 17th, 2013 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just like what is happening to Obama and his train wreck of an administration I am absolutely giddy when Socialism fails.
Nov 17th, 2013 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And it always fails so spectacularly!
All the useful idiots around (esp Hollywood) probably don't even know how ridiculous they look now swooning over both dictators.
35 yankeeboy
Nov 17th, 2013 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think Conqueror gas sussed him out, see 43.
Well done Conqueror.
Venezuela - fucked
Nov 17th, 2013 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil - fucked
Argentina - well and truly fucked
Dictators are from another age,
Nov 17th, 2013 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They have no place in the modern world,
Yet you still get a few that cling on to the past..
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@ 41 Gordo1 who writes:
Nov 17th, 2013 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“How anyone could possibly consider anything published in the Guardian worthy of belief I just cannot fathom. It is a dishonest “rag” with a minimum readership and on the brink of bankruptcy.”
The real world begs to differ:
The Guardian has become the world's third most read newspaper website, with 30.4 million readers in June 2012, according to industry analyst ComScore.
The Guardian and guardian.co.uk's readerships combined gave an average monthly readership of 8.95 million in the 12-month period, ahead of the Daily Telegraph/Telegraph.co.uk audience of 8.82 million, according to the latest National Readership Survey (NRS http://www.nrs.co.uk/ )
@ 49 Doggy Rap
Nov 17th, 2013 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mmmm!
I thought I remembered something about this bunch:
http://pandodaily.com/2013/09/11/yikes-comscore-ceo-assaults-a-moat-employee-during-patent-deposition/
Doesn't this CEO realize he is an very poor representative for his company? Oh, oh, it also seems there are other problems: go fetch boy!
“British Press Freedom Under Threat”, says US top newspaper. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/opinion/british-press-freedom-under-threat.html
Nov 17th, 2013 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Deflect!
Nov 18th, 2013 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0I tell you...... DEFLECT!
Whatever the article is about, attempt to deflect.
Pity the poor average Venezuelan who can't deflect the knob that is pushing the country further down the plug hole.
@1 “Unfortunately Britards are in no position to pint out how supposedly undemocratic other countries are. Put your own house in order”
Nov 18th, 2013 - 02:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well said Forgetit86, well said.
Yes I'm sure the Venezuelans thank you for ignoring their plight.
Nov 18th, 2013 - 03:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0At least in Argentina we have a free press and we get to know about these things, that is another big difference between them and us. The Argentine media has taken a interest in these matters of drug trafficking violence in the last few days fearful that we might face something similar in the future... The US suspects of the main routs of the drugs in Central America depart from VZLA which must be to its neck whith these drug cartels...
Nov 18th, 2013 - 04:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.lanuevacuba.com/graficas/rutas-sospechosas-b.jpgn
Ciudad Juarez has become hell on earth (disturbing images)
http://www.lanuevacuba.com/graficas/rutas-sospechosas-b.jpgn
@54
Nov 18th, 2013 - 04:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0“for ignoring their plight”
&WTFISOZDOING?
53marco narco
Nov 18th, 2013 - 05:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0“@1 “Unfortunately Britards are in no position to pint out how supposedly undemocratic other countries are. Put your own house in order”
Well said Forgetit86, well said.”
Sure, Narcos, when was the last time a British Head of State ruled by decree??
Unlike Maduro and your revered CFK
When the entire population is already under electronic, phone, and CCTV surveillance 24/7, and when the right to free assembly has been effectively been proscribed, and you have a secret police apparatus on your side, you don't need “decree” to rule.
Nov 18th, 2013 - 05:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0You already “rule”.
For further explanation of what I just wrote, ask Cameron.
57
Nov 18th, 2013 - 05:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well come back Canadian crakhead Troy
Perhaps we should follow the example of the Toronto Major.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4siKr6qY8w
@1 Forgetit86
Nov 18th, 2013 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dear me, less sense than boiled egg.
Famous constitutional lawyer.. with a cowpat for a brain.
So Maduro's cohorts see fit to hand over absolute power to him, are they incapable of governing. Does he really need decree's to sort out toilet paper shortage? What a bunch of muppets these guys are. Sure they can will Miss Universe but their politicians are piss poor.
Let me correct all of you.
Nov 18th, 2013 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro is not a socialist, he is a nacional-socialist. He is authoritarian and messianic.
TG we got rid of this kind of people in Argentina since CFK will have to leave the presidency in 2015 thanks to our founding fathers from whom we inherited a republican and democratic National Constitution.
After jaining over 100 business men (that is sure to attract FDI), he is now jailing international journalist:
Nov 18th, 2013 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://news.yahoo.com/us-reporter-held-venezuelan-authorities-050215164.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CfUKYpSrjwAZpfQtDMD
It's been a great week in Venezuela for democracy for sure. The machismo Army, rather than defending their nation is taking over electronic stores, now appliance stores......will they be making a major offensive os toilet paper factories? Oh no....they don;t make shit paper in Venezuela.....they just make shit. They should place some extra stress on the Supreme Ministry of Happiness. Will he declare by decree that all Venezuelans be happy or jailed?
Did you know construction workers say Chubby's face whiling digging a tunnel? Makes sense.....closer to hell. The people of Venezuela for sure are living in a dangerous place with bus driver running the country and a canary incarnate of Chubby Chavez advising how to run the country.....Poor bastards.
@62, They're using the retail invasions to practice for Guyana. I kid, only slightly.
Nov 18th, 2013 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Between Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia.....and now it looks like Brazil may be losing it's base from a free market, SA is in a shit slide. Chile and Colombia have they job cut out for them as the remaining somewhat free economies. If Venezuela considers invading, who the hell would help Guyana? The UN?
Nov 18th, 2013 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#1.....if you going to refer to a constitutional lawyer from the USA......only one has national grit and he is Alan Dershowitz who also still teaches constitutional law at Harvard. Most others are wannabe Dershowitz's.
Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness? oh FFS! Really? but I can't wipe my...
Nov 19th, 2013 - 03:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Orwell, 1984? Was not a manual, but a warning. Written by a Brit (with leftist leanings, but he was aware of the dangers). That's where the sophistication, and experience-learnt knowledge, can, on ocassion, triumph that of a a nominated bus-driver supposedly in control of a potentially rich nation, desperate to please the mob and yet seeking to control the mob... see dolartoday.com for the reality on the 'parallel dollar'
Mas-burro - heading for the ditch fast.....
what a mess, who will dig him out?
What's next when VZLA hits the wall? (which will happen),
Comments?
59 Marco Narco
Nov 19th, 2013 - 03:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Perhaps we should follow the example of the Toronto Major.”
All of Canada is laughing at the Toronto Mayor who smoked crack - and calling for his ouster.
In Venezuela, that sort of behaviour is endorsed by the rest of the government.
oh, and his “little bird”, too!!
You really are hopeless, Narco.
LOL !!
66 Troy Crackhead Tempest
Nov 19th, 2013 - 04:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0“All of Canada is laughing at the Toronto Mayor”
The world is laughing at Canada. LOL
Oh Canada, we stand for crack and freeze...
http://news.msn.com/videos?videoid=dae755f9-b677-d807-bc53-a18dc56f5200
67 narcos
Nov 19th, 2013 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0The real joke is, you Narcos, condoning SA politicians who govern like their on crack and derive profit as a narco state, dealing in coke, whereas we find it unacceptable and looney.
But we digress.
Won't Maduro look like a horse's ass when his country's economy still tanks, despite his 'best governance'?
He won't be able to blame anyone else since he is the ultimate authority and he commands the economy himself, by decree.
An absolute Dic-tator.
It will be interesting to see what Mercosur says.
Do you think Argentina will try to follow his example?
At least Canada exposes people like the Toronto mayor.
Nov 19th, 2013 - 07:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Venezuela doesn't get any such love from people like Marcos.
#66 Narcos as the world laughs at the Toronto mayor, as you say, the city council also strips that mayor of virtually every power he had as mayor. Yet in Venezuela when the whole world laughs at Maduro and Venezuela, they him him MORE power to militarize the economy and jail international journalists and businessmen.
Nov 19th, 2013 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can't imagine what it more pathetic; a city with a questionable mayor whereby the city council strips him of all powers, or a nation with a president is taking advice from a yellow bird, acting like a tyrant jailing reporters and businessmen and killing the economy of a country with the largest oil reserves in the world (yet broke as a nation) whereby the legislature gives him unchecked powers to rule by decree.
An old Army cadence:
A yellow bird
with a yellow bill
had perched upon
my window sill
I lured him him
with a piece of bread
and than I crushed (foot stomp)
his fucking head
That is the future of Maduro if the military has a hint of intelligence.
70 Poppy
Nov 19th, 2013 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0” ...a nation with a president is taking advice from a yellow bird, acting like a tyrant jailing reporters and businessmen and killing the economy of a country with the largest oil reserves in the world (yet broke as a nation) whereby the legislature gives him unchecked powers to rule by decree.”
and not only does Narco see nothing wrong with this, he is also deliberately deflecting criticism of such actions.
I can only conclude that Narcos is a compete moron, or he is so consumed by his hatred for the Brits or NA, that he will say absolutely anything, no matter how illogical, just to contradict us.
Sad, really.
They are are like that, blind to the tyrannical and corrupt ways. They always talk about corrupt US politicians yet they fail to acknowledge they get caught and land in prison.....and not a country club.
Nov 19th, 2013 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is now happening in Venezuela is the final piece to remove any resemblence of democracy. Not the people of Venezuela are idiots or beggars, but they are certainly powerfuless to change things. For them I feel for, for life is going to get worse unless the military takes Maduro out. Countries like this are the reason why SA as a continent will never make the big leagues and will always remain in the bush (Jungle) league.
South America wants nothing to do with the failed European / North American system. What is so hard to understand about it?
Nov 22nd, 2013 - 03:35 am - Link - Report abuse 073
Nov 22nd, 2013 - 06:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0We don't care. Why do you?
:-)
“ South America wants nothing to do with the failed European / North American system. ”
Nov 22nd, 2013 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Except to shop, buy everything in sight, and see the sights 3 times per year. Europe and North America are a buyer's paradise for Brasilians right now. The airlines for return flights back to Brasil are making a fortune on excess baggage fees.
“South America wants nothing to do with the failed European / North American system. What is so hard to understand about it?”
Nov 22nd, 2013 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because they invented a better way to fail, currently being pioneered by Venezuela and Argentina.
Today, in Spanish, translated from VenEconomía:
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0¿Adivinen Quién?
” A preview of what is coming, we already saw it when Maduro asked to boycott “newspapers from the bourgeoisie,” with the blocking of more than 100 web pages informing the true parity of the bolivar currency and an absurd request by Conatel (the country’s telecommunications ruling body) to Twitter of blocking and cancelling the accounts of users linked to these web pages.”
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=1212845&CategoryId=10717
By decree, with no dissent.
Does anyone here like the idea of having your Twitter or internet access to web pages, such as Mercosur Press, cut off ?
Another step backward, as the big bus hurtles towards the inevitable ditch. .
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