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US imposes travel restriction on a number of Venezuelan officials
The United States is imposing travel restrictions on a number of Venezuelan officials. Washington did not specify how many people would be affected, but said those “who have been responsible for or complicit in human rights abuses” would not be “welcome” in the US. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI do hope this is but the first step in the US going into Venezuela at the request of the opposition to help them rid the country of these Chavistas once and for all.
Jul 31st, 2014 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0The U.S. won't go in.
Jul 31st, 2014 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 2 ElaineB
Jul 31st, 2014 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I did say 'hope'.
Finally some action! Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela are not that different than Cuba today. Why not treating them the same way?
Jul 31st, 2014 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0US imposes travel restriction on a number of Venezuelan officials
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isn't it nice to be truly free and be able to restrict foreigners from your soil,
without asking your masters if it is allowed,
still,
I suppose this is not the difference between the USA and the UK.
they can and do,
we do nothing ....
Sorry ChrisR. I agree with ElaineB. The US has no appetite for more foreign incursions. No need for the oil any more. They can afford to wait for Venezuela to implode. Then the business people will move in and mop up.
Jul 31st, 2014 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hell, who knows , I might even recoup some of my original investments!
Meanwhile, I'll keep busy in old London town for now.
Is it me or does the US spokes woman look like she is wearing a $4 wig.
Aug 01st, 2014 - 12:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's just you.
Aug 01st, 2014 - 05:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0$4 glasses perhaps
Haha!
Aug 01st, 2014 - 08:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is no reason for the USA to help Venezuela destroy itself.
Aug 02nd, 2014 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No reason at all.
We don't need the muck they call oil
and soon nobody else will want it either once our refineries complete the upgrades they'll be no one to refine the muck.
I can't wait.
@ 7 Klingon
Aug 02nd, 2014 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose your garden has dried out after the floods because you are all 'cocky' again, even though your country is further in the mire?
BTW the spokesperson doesn't have to worry about where the next meal is coming from or whether the U$D is imploding and she will lose her house and savings because SHE is in the US.
I bet you would jump at the chance of being there and having her job or ANY job, wouldn't you?
The Civilian-Military Caste in Venezuela, the circus plays on....
Aug 02nd, 2014 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro's recent speech:
Maduro had announced a “sacudón”, a sort of “economic and political shakeup”. I didn't expect this, but a couple of announcements of totally insufficient measures to tackle the economic breakdown and a lot of palaver about the Empire, the imaginary economic war and how good socialism is/was. We got absolutely no announcement but a lot of palaver. At the end the state channels showed a special video about the love story of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. It couldn't get more surreal.
There was one real message and that Maduro's message to the military. He started his boring speech with threats against those who dare “offend” the army. This came after the opposition criticised Vladimir Padrino, chief of staff, who declared soldiers should be political and the army was to take a political position.
Since February 1999 the regime has done everything to turn the military caste into full political actors and the managers of everything, in complete opposition to the very constitution the regime leaders introduced. The constitution was nothing but a facade to the outside world.
In any case, Maduro now said the opposition would not be able to divide the army because “the army knew what happens to those who went along with the opposition”. He even explained the generals who tried to “take sides with the opposition” (that is, to criticize the current system), not only didn't get jobs with a new government but ended up in jail.
This is the Socialist Paradise coming to every ALBA country soon.
I have warned you.
Thx ilsen.
Aug 03rd, 2014 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Frick'n scary.
1984 anyone??
Good report on why Venezuela is short of cash and why will only get worse;
Aug 03rd, 2014 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0here:
http://panampost.com/carlos-sabino/2014/08/01/anti-imperialists-mortgage-venezuelas-future-abroad/
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