Venezuela and the Chavez Legacy

The recurring pattern I see with Venezuela (and China, and Russia, and all those other countries) is that in the early years, the quality of life did improve somewhat after they took power, but that's mostly because the living conditions beforehand were so fucking dismal and stagnant that any movement which kicked people's asses into gear made for an improvement. And Chavez was buffered by the power of oil. But it never lasts. This concentration of so much far-ranging power into an individual institution is so fertile for abuse that despotism is inevitable. Authoritarianism, never once.

At according to what I previously read here, the only people with the armed strength needed to do more than what already has been done by the opposition is the military.

...which incidentally has been busy carving out its own little fiefdom to keep the rank and file loyal to them.

Ironically, Pre-Chávez Venezuela is a far better example of effective Socialism than the Venezuela of today. Back in Rafael Caldera's first term, security in here was better than in the US. A lot of gringo celebrities lived in Caracas and the gringos who worked in PDVSA were better paid here than in the US. We even started emulating the US with our cities design. Those left-wing assholes who defend Chavez and Castro are the perfect examples of first world commies that don't really know shit.

Also yeah, as long as the opposition doesn't get the military on their side, the status quo isn't going to change. The opposition can either play dumb and follow the goverment's game or maybe do some street protests to take adventage of the discontent against the goverment until an event like 2002's rebellion repeats itself. At least that's what I would do and It's our only hope at this point.

PDVSA is being purged.

No, not for "failure", for "corruption".

Ahh, always good times to be had when the word "purge" comes up.

Electricity was out in 3 states a few hours ago. Be safe any tropes over there!

Inflation and scarcity keep getting worse by the day...

There was a transport strike in East Caracas recently. It's because people are frustrated because of It's price.

Gasoline and products are becoming more rare. The country is slowly stopping itself.

Dear diary, it really feels good living in a nation about to collapse.

we are not colapsing, we are rotting from wittin it, is a very slow death.

Oh, that's ever better, then.

I do wonder how Venezuela can come out alright out of this if even the agricultural sector is collapsing (the farmers aren't getting good pesticides from the government and crops are dying, according to BBC).

edited 22nd Dec '17 12:46:57 PM by Grafite

I feel happy, knowing many of these pests will die either by their own stupidity or by the law in other countries.

My resentment for them is too great.

A country's right to choose its own development path must be respected, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Venezuelan counterpart on Friday.

Development? Venezuela?

China? Allowing other smaller countries to choose their own development path?

Wut.

edited 23rd Dec '17 5:35:58 AM by AngelusNox

It is because the current Venezuela government is friendly to China.

These are the darkest Christmas we've had. Literally, there was this large blackout in Maracaibo. At the place I was staying it lasted four hours.

Also the absence of Christmas ornaments is noteworthy.

But still, Merry Christmas everyone!

I curse those damn Communist bastards for what they did to my beautiful Maracaibo D:! I was out during the whole blackout and I'm staying with some family members in Valencia right now. My sister had no electricity for almost 2 whole days. The blackouts will probably continue all the way to Friday at least... From what I've seen, despite the lack of service, Valencia is actually much more decent than both Maracaibo and San Cristobal. The public services don't work in Maracaibo and garbage is everywhere on the street. I curse Arias Cardenas and whoever the hell won recently and everyone on Chavismo!

¡Ojala los violen y les den por el culo!

I regret that time I called Oscar Pérez a memelord.

Caracas announced that they're conducting an anti-terror raid to arrest the so-called terrorist aka the pilot who defected and hurled grenades out of his chopper.

My god they even used a Rocket Launcher on the house he was in... I still don't know if he made it or not.

edited 15th Jan '18 8:27:02 PM by Malebranche

He's dead. I know information is unreliable as fuck today but now we have photo evidence (obviously NSFW).

edited 15th Jan '18 8:35:18 PM by Stormtroper

Dammit. I curse this satanic government, this is so fucked up.

The Opposition (well at least Soy Venezuela) is calling for protests on January 22.

I heard there are cacerolazos in some parts of Caracas. I am sure that will work this time.

Guys so, there's been constant lootings and protests from the Venezuelan lower classes during these 2 months or so, they've been happening daily and I think the murder of Oscar Perez might heat things up again in the next weeks.

Students of the Ludovico Silva protested today because of the constant robberies against them and teachers. The GNB is there trying to control the situation.

So, Chavismo hasn't notice they became worse than how the country was handled in the 90's, or are they just that blind?