Maduro urges calm as Venezuelans jam stores again
Source: AP
President Nicolas Maduro, who called for an emptying of shelves when he seized control of a slew of appliance retailers last week, urged calm Monday as Venezuelans massed outside stores nationwide for a fourth straight day.
Maduro, in a nationally televised address, charged that opposition agitators had infiltrated the long lines that have formed in several cities and were trying to stir up violence. He said he was deploying tens of thousands of volunteer civilian militiamen to assist security forces in crowd control.
"Be calm, these products will stay where they are," Maduro said, adding that under no circumstances would he allow companies to gouge consumers again. "There's no need to sleep outside store doors. Nobody should despair. Nobody should get anxious."
Tension has hung over much of Venezuela since Maduro last week took control of several electronics retailers he accuses of hiking prices to sow discontent and destabilize his rule. This week the government is expanding its crackdown to businesses selling clothes, shoes and automobiles, all of which have seen prices shoot up in tandem with a sharp drop in Venezuela's bolivar currency on the illegal black market.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/maduro-urges-calm-venezuelans-jam-025926774.html
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Just as it worked in the old Soviet Union, China under Mao, North Korea, the Sandanistas, etc... 
"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicated this Friday that the growing “imbalances” in the Venezuelan economy have created a situation that currently ‘is not sustainable.’
Alejandro Werner, director of western hemisphere affairs for the IMF, stated that this bleak outlook is due to high inflation, foreign exchange shortages, and high levels of scarcity with respect to basic goods.
The latest IMF calculations place Venezuela’s 2013 inflation at 45 percent and economic growth at 1 percent.
‘All of the trends in these indicators are rising. We don’t see a potential inflection point or a reversal,’ Werner said to journalists at the annual IMF meetings in Washington, DC."
http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/2013/10/15/economy-imf-says-venezuelas-economic-situation-is-not-sustainable/
How is the US responsible for this?
PUT EM UP!1!1!
the Evil Empire, aka, the U.S. 
Venezuelan radio journalist arrested on air
Oct. 11, 2013
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Venezuelan radio journalist was arrested by police detectives on the air just minutes after complaining to listeners that they drive around in luxury cars and wear flashy jewelry, the man's son said Friday.
Victor Hugo Donaire, 50, remained in jail Friday, a day after four officers of the national investigative police interrupted his morning show at Radio Los Morros in the Guarico state capital of San Juan.
He was being held on charges of resisting arrest and mistreating a public official, said his son, Danny Donaire, the station's vice president.
He said the officers manhandled station employees, confiscating the cellphone of its administrator so she could not take photos.
Audio of the scuffle was broadcast by various Venezuelan news media.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/venezuelan-radio-journalist-arrested-air
Is this the fault of the US also?
organizations (one headed by Jimmy carter) have ALL commented on the excellent voting practices of Venezuela.
Venezuelan voting has been much cleaner than any U.S. voting has.
America is (and has for many decades) aggressively trying to topple the Democratic Socialist government of Venezuela (Brazil and other South American sovereign nations) mainly because of their oil (America Inc.) and because "they" do not want Americans to see that this system can work, very well, in our own back-yards.
If the European Democratic Socialist nations had massive natural resource reserves they too would be under American sponsored covert attacks.
Yes, Venezuela is Democratic with a capital D.
Yes, America has a long history of exerting heavy influence over natural reserve rich, South American countries. Venezuela and Brazil finally said "enough" and started programs to re-distribute the wealth to the millions of peasants (from the handful of very wealthy S. Americans) although they ("we"
still have hegemony over Columbia and other U.S. bought nations.
I can imagine how hard it would be with the U.S. govt. and it's corporate thugs always trying to destroy your govt. from outside and inside. To me that is why it is hard to know if Chavez and now Maduro are using the correct methods.
If America would stop destabilizing those economies and be good neighbors (which they won't), these Democratic Socialist nations could prosper or implode on their own volition.
Please Read, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN, by John Perkins, it will inform you much better than I can. Also, Do Not believe the MSM.
is the fault of the U.S.? And the massive mismanagement of the economy by the late Chavez govt. and now the Maduro govt, which is the same govt., and the widespread corruption within the Maduro govt has nothing to do with it?
Talk about sticking you head in the sand.
The U.S. doesn't need to de-stabilize the Ven. economy, Maduro and his merry band of thugs are doing a great job of it all by themselves, blaming the U.S. is just a distraction to keep the masses from learning the real truth about why the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
It's like, look over here, not over there. 
ok
Those kinds of remarks contribute to the thread...not one bit.
If you have a comment in rebuttal that doesn't involve insult to the OP or a snark-remark about self-stimulation, let's hear it. Otherwise, your unfortunate decision to get personal with the thread starter reflect on you and no one else. You haven't added a thing to the discussion.
I honestly don't know what is going on.
Just mention Rand and I'll come out cussing.
You're the one making lame allusions to grasping things, but whatever.
sponsored debacle, which is the height of diversion tactics, are losing their effectiveness.
An Economic Crisis of Historic Proportions
by Moisés Naím
"The crisis includes a fiscal deficit approaching 20 percent of the economy (in the cliff-panicking United States it is 7 percent), a black market where a U.S. dollar costs four times more than the government-determined exchange rate, one of the world's highest inflation rates, a swollen number of public sector jobs, debt 10 times larger than it was in 2003, a fragile banking system and the free fall of the state-controlled oil industry, the country's main source of revenue.
Oil-exporting countries rarely face hard currency shortages, but the Chávez regime may be the exception. Mismanagement and lack of investment have decreased oil production. Meanwhile oil revenue is compromised partly because of Chávez’s decision to supply Venezuelans with the country's most valuable resource at heavily subsidized prices. Thus a large and growing share of locally produced oil is sold domestically at the lowest prices in the world (in Venezuela it costs 25 cents to fill the tank of a mid-sized car).
Another share of the oil output is shipped abroad to Cuba and other Chávez allies, and to China, which bought oil in advance at deeply discounted prices (apparently the revenue from China has already been spent). Most of the crude left to be exported at market prices is sold to Venezuela's best client, and, ironically, Chávez's main foe: the United States. Yet, as a result of America's own oil boom, U.S. imports of Venezuelan oil have recently hit a 30-year low.
Moreover, due to an explosion in its main refinery, Venezuela is now forced to import gasoline. The Financial Times reckons that for each 10 barrels of crude it sells to the US, it has to import back (at a higher price) two barrels of oil refined abroad. Meanwhile, the nation's total imports have jumped from $13 billion in 2003 to over $50 billion currently. Paying for those imports and servicing its huge debt requires more hard currency than Venezuela's weakened economy can generate."
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/03/venezuela-post-chavez/chavez-will-leave-behind-an-economic-crisis
truth is beginning to take shape, finally.
that the U.S. is responsible for the economic mess in Ven. 
Your comment smacks of desperation because you can't defend what Maduro and his Merry band of thugs have so screwed the economy that nothing short of drastic measures will save it, and even then, it's a crap shoot on whether or not that would help.
But I understand your angst, it's hard for you and a few others to admit that your favorite leftist leader is a failure.
I am so sorry that you lost him at such a young age.
He took to war to save his brothers from leaving their families. He returned to build his sisters modest homes. Beautiful freshwest.
You had a dear sweet father, he gave you books. You were blessed.
