Venezuela

Status
Not open for further replies.
We're fine, although were woken at 2am by bombs!! The attacks have been clinical, specifically targeting military installations and airports. Fortunately, we're 15 kms from the centre of the city. Will keep you informed if I can , depending on internet.
Thank you all so much for your concern.
 
karadekoolaid said:
We're fine, although were woken at 2am by bombs!! The attacks have been clinical, specifically targeting military installations and airports. Fortunately, we're 15 kms from the centre of the city. Will keep you informed if I can , depending on internet.
Thank you all so much for your concern.
Click to expand...
I'm so so sorry to hear this ! :hug: I pray that this is only incidental and they won't continue this.. Fingers crossed and I pray you and your family will be safe!
 
karadekoolaid said:
We are fine, as I said ( it's not even sunrise yet). Venezuelans here and all across the world will be delighted that the dictatorship might just be at an end.
Click to expand...
Unfortunately America has a record of not thinking through what happens after a country's leader is removed, and the instability leads to a great loss if life and years of economic and political turmoil.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Unfortunately America has a record of not thinking through what happens after a country's leader is removed, and the instability leads to a great loss if life and years of economic and political turmoil.
Click to expand...
The problem is that Maduro was not the country's legitimate leader. He lost last year's elections by about 40%, but kept himself in power because both the Electoral Council and the Supreme Court are filled with his cronies.
Panama and Grenada are doing just fine at the moment. Afghanistan is a lost cause; neither the Americans nor the Russians could do anything there.Kuwait is highly stable. Iraq, according to the UN, is relatively stable.
 
It's now almost 9am. The city is shrouded in sepulchral silence. No-one is in the street and, as far as I can observe, there's no traffic on the roads at all. I imagine the rest of the day will be the same.
Good moment to get stuck into the gardening.
 
karadekoolaid said:
The problem is that Maduro was not the country's legitimate leader. He lost last year's elections by about 40%, but kept himself in power because both the Electoral Council and the Supreme Court are filled with his cronies.
Panama and Grenada are doing just fine at the moment. Afghanistan is a lost cause; neither the Americans nor the Russians could do anything there.Kuwait is highly stable. Iraq, according to the UN, is relatively stable.
Click to expand...
I ask out of ignorance, which side are the army and police likely to land on? Obviously that will play a huge part in deciding how cleanly a legitimate government can be installed.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
The Velvet Curtain said:
I ask out of ignorance, which side are the army and police likely to land on?
Click to expand...
Good question and I'm really not sure of the answer because I give a toss about politics. However, Maria Corina Machado apparently has persuaded a lot of the military (who are very discontented with the regime) to back her. There's so much misinformation that it's hard to know what, or who to believe. However, many career military personnel are unhappy about the highest ranks (generals, admirals, etc) because they're only there because of graft and nepotism, rather than merit. We'll have to see.
 
My wife just went to the local supermarket (which is really a grocery store) and said the shelves were almost empty.
I also saw a video this morning of one of the big supermarkets close by. There was a 25yd queue of people outside the door, and a queue of about 50 cars.
Good thing I've been slowly but surely filling the cupboards with essentials over the past 3-4 weeks.
 
karadekoolaid said:
Good question and I'm really not sure of the answer because I give a toss about politics. However, Maria Corina Machado apparently has persuaded a lot of the military (who are very discontented with the regime) to back her. There's so much misinformation that it's hard to know what, or who to believe. However, many career military personnel are unhappy about the highest ranks (generals, admirals, etc) because they're only there because of graft and nepotism, rather than merit. We'll have to see.
Click to expand...
Just caught a summary of Trump's news conference: he is taking charge of Venezuela until the infrastructure can be sorted out because it is broken. Immediately he talked about oil production infrastructure and how America will extract revenue to pay for its repair. He then talked about how America will go on to sell oil to countries like China and give 'some' of the profits to Venezuela. He said he was willing to work with the current vice president and install her, whilst also saying he had serious problems with the leader of the opposition.

So there you go, no interest in seeing democracy and the will of the people honoured, just installing a puppet regime that will allow America to steal its mineral wealth. Other than everyone, who could have predicted that... oh and he has no trouble using US troops to enforce his will on the Venezuelan population.

OK, back to talking about food for me, this is all too depressing.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom