Maduro in crackdown under Venezuela emergency decree

[Zorro]

Source: AFP

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a sweeping crackdown Saturday under a new emergency decree, ordering the seizure of paralyzed factories, the arrest of their owners and military exercises to counter alleged foreign threats.

The embattled leftist is struggling to contain a raging economic crisis that has led to food shortages, soaring prices, riots, looting and vigilante justice, pushing Venezuela to the brink of collapse.

He accused the United States on Friday of destabilizing the country at the behest of the "fascist Venezuelan right," prompting him to declare a state of emergency.

Addressing his supporters at a rally in central Caracas on Saturday, Maduro announced some of the actions to be taken under the decree, which has not yet been published.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/maduro-orders-seizure-closed-venezuela-factories-jailing-owners-205441895.html

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The situation in Venezuela seems to be coming to a head.

[Feathery Scout]

1. Food shortage - people eating dogs, cats

I read earlier today that people are now starting to eat street animals and pets.

And there's no real solution in sight.

Just.....awful

[99th_Monkey]

2. The CIA, et. al. is involved in this up to their eyeballs.

Latin American countries were getting all uppity, with their populist-driven socialist policies and figureheads .. Can't have that in our "back yard".

[GulfCoast66]

3. Please!!!

Tell us more! We want details.

We need to know what evil forces are preventing a bus driver from being a successful president.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Wikileaks has not yet published the "details"

Which is the only way we'd ever find them out.
... or we find out by them being declassified in 50 years.

I'll be sure to keep you updated whenever the truth
comes to light.

[99th_Monkey]

6. Actually when I google "CIA operations to destabilize Venezuela, 2015 2016" .. FYI

This popped up a top of list ... purports to be all about the "Latest"information. I suspect
your computer has a gppgle search function as well, so after this you're on your own, in
your quest for 'details'.

Issued on March 9, President Obama’s Executive Order tagging Venezuela as “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the US national security” and declaring “a national emergency to deal with this threat” caused justified alarm and widespread rejection throughout the Continent and beyond. It was not the first time that Washington used a language as arrogant as it is irrational. History is brimming with examples of how the Empire has made use of such accusations to launch military attacks and break international law in various ways. They used similar words to justify their brutal armed invasions of Panama and the tiny island of Granada, among other outrageous acts which crushed defenseless populations and brought death and destruction to nations stripped of their independence as a result.

Despite worldwide disapproval, the number of media campaigns against Venezuela has increased since then through a US-led propaganda apparatus that is now especially concentrating its attacks on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello. They are accusing him of being linked to international drug trafficking, a slanderous and yet unproved charge rapidly echoed by hundreds of newspapers and other media from all over the world.

Who is Diosdado Cabello and why is he under attack?

Ever since he was a young officer, he joined Hugo Chavez in the struggle against the abuse and corruption that marked the Fourth Republic and after that, in the peaceful transformation conducted by the Bolivarian Revolution. He played a key role in the popular movement of resistance that thwarted the fascist coup in 2002 and returned Chavez back being head of State for which he had been democratically-elected by most Venezuelans.

In a clumsy maneuver to divide Chavismo, and following Chavez’s unfortunate death, the same hardcore right-wingers who are now vilifying him tried to make him President of the Republic, but he adamantly refused. Diosdado Cabello gave a remarkable example of revolutionary firmness and spirit of unity, proving that he is moved by flattery no more than he is by threats.

Neither the conservative right nor imperialism forgives his attitude, as it embodies the will of a people bent on remaining independent and sovereign.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-latest-u-s-attempt-to-destabilize-venezuela/5453441

[NobodyHere]

7. Globalresearch is about as trustworthy as Infowars

[99th_Monkey]

8. The site is not even remotely resemble Alex Jones

that's a bullshit accusation IMHO.

It's clearly a progressive left-wing site, with articles on progressive topics -- some supporting of Bernie ..
which I suspect is why you're taking umbrage over the OP.

[Archae]

11. Canada's "Global Research" is a conspiracy website.

When they publish bullshit like this:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-iii-has-begun/5521720

[99th_Monkey]

12. That's entirely a matter of opinion. ~nt~

[Nye Bevan]

4. Why does President Obama hate Venezuela so much that he decided to destabilize it like this?

Or could it be that Maduro is simply making shit up?

[Zynx]

9. Chavezistas and the like can't come to grips with the fact that Chavez and Maduro simply

have bad economic policies. Seriously, their economic policies are just absolutely dreadful by the standards of any sane person. Dual-tiered currencies, price controls while forcing wages higher, etc. It's a recipe for disaster and they're getting it.

[FLPanhandle]

10. They can't come to grips with it because it means using their brains.

They prefer to respond with emotions.