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Maduro predicts legislature will "disappear"
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-venezuela-protest-20160518-snap-story.htmlOy. In fairness, he more "predicted they will disappear" than "threatened to make them disappear".
Venezuela, already reeling from shortages of basic goods and electricity, plunged further into chaos Wednesday as police and opponents of President Nicolas Maduro clashed on the streets of the capital Caracas after Maduro threatened to make the opposition-controlled National Assembly “disappear.”
Maduro’s threats, scattered looting and growing protests over hyperinflation and food scarcities underscored the deepening unrest and polarization in this oil-rich but cash-strapped country. Maduro on Friday decreed a state of emergency, but the National Assembly subsequently voted it down as uncalled for.
Several protesters were arrested and at least one injured as police used tear gas to disperse a march to the national electoral council. Opposition leaders had planned to formally protest there the slow pace of a review of signatures on petitions backing a vote to recall Maduro. A similar march last week also was blocked.
Marchers carried signs reading “dying of hunger” and “there is no food.” Fearing a violent confrontation, stores along the march route were mostly closed.
Maduro’s threats, scattered looting and growing protests over hyperinflation and food scarcities underscored the deepening unrest and polarization in this oil-rich but cash-strapped country. Maduro on Friday decreed a state of emergency, but the National Assembly subsequently voted it down as uncalled for.
Several protesters were arrested and at least one injured as police used tear gas to disperse a march to the national electoral council. Opposition leaders had planned to formally protest there the slow pace of a review of signatures on petitions backing a vote to recall Maduro. A similar march last week also was blocked.
Marchers carried signs reading “dying of hunger” and “there is no food.” Fearing a violent confrontation, stores along the march route were mostly closed.
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I think it is pretty clear that Venezuela did reasonably well while Chavez was in power. Maduro and Chavez are two entirely different things 
