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JimGinPA

(14,814 posts)
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 11:38 AM Apr 2017

So, When Do They Bomb Venezuela?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/venezuela-seizes-a-gm-plant-amid-antigovernment-protests/2017/04/20/e58a229c-25c7-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html?utm_term=.09fdd964c98c

Venezuelan authorities seized a General Motors plant Wednesday, an unexpected move that appeared aimed at provoking U.S. authorities and distracting attention from intensifying protests against President Nicolás Maduro.

The plant takeover happened on the same day that huge crowds of demonstrators marched against Maduro’s government, calling for new elections and a return to democratic rule.

GM called the expropriation of its plant “an illegal judicial seizure of its assets” and vowed legal action to defend itself. The company is not the first foreign firm whose assets have been confiscated by Venezuelan authorities, but those actions have typically been preceded by repeated public threats from the socialist government.


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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
1. Maduro needed a distraction from the protests demanding his resignation. Sound familiar?
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 11:43 AM
Apr 2017

Trump needed a distraction from the investigation into his Russia-ties.
Kim Jong Un needed a distraction from the poverty and oppression in his country.

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