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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Sat May 14, 2016, 11:35 AM May 2016

U.S. intelligence warns of Venezuela collapse

With dire shortages of basic goods, a looming foreign debt payment, horrific street crime and intransigent political divisions, Venezuela is in danger of collapsing into waves of deadly violence, U.S. intelligence officials warned Friday.

Venezuela, which controls the world's largest reserves of crude oil, is in the throes of a potentially explosive political stalemate after opposition parties gained a majority in the national congress in elections late last year.

President Nicolas Maduro, a leftist, faces a possible recall vote sponsored by the opposition that he is maneuvering to block.

All portends a dilemma for U.S. policy makers concerned about the ripples of more violence, but with few options to change the course of events.

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-u.s.-venezuela-20160513-snap-story.html

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U.S. intelligence warns of Venezuela collapse (Original Post) Zorro May 2016 OP
When regime change isn't 2naSalit May 2016 #1
Do you seriously believe Obama has any plans to intervene COLGATE4 May 2016 #2
I don't believe 2naSalit May 2016 #3
Shit stirring has been going on in Venezuela starting with Chavez. He COLGATE4 May 2016 #4
I see it 2naSalit May 2016 #5
I'm sure you do. Actually, it's all the fault of the CIA COLGATE4 May 2016 #6
If that's hpw you see it 2naSalit May 2016 #7

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
1. When regime change isn't
Sat May 14, 2016, 11:49 AM
May 2016

working in favor of the wannabe rulers (the US oiligarchy)... but then, more profits for the war machine!

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
3. I don't believe
Sat May 14, 2016, 12:08 PM
May 2016

in anything... I suspect that there are shadowy elements who act in secret for the benefit of the corporatocracy unbeknownst to our president and others who might stop them. Shit stirring in Venezuela has been going on for some time, that some are able to resist is like a thorn in the side of certain elements who want to rule the world.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
4. Shit stirring has been going on in Venezuela starting with Chavez. He
Sat May 14, 2016, 12:15 PM
May 2016

and his incompetent successor have treated Venezuela's oil reserves as their personal piggy back, Chavez throwing away billions upon billions of dollars trying to garner support for himself as 'leader' of a new Latin American Order and Dim Successor because he surrounded himself with the largest group of kleptomaniacs ever seen. The result is that a country that 18 short years ago was the envy of all of Latin America has now devolved to a near Zimbabwe state of existence where the currency is so valueless that small denomination notes are being used as toilet paper and the ordinary citizens have to fight each other in order to buy a small pittance of foodstuffs. Yep, there has been shit-stirring aplenty. But not from shadowy outside entities - no, the shit stirring has taken place in broad daylight with the entire world now watching the wheels come off.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
6. I'm sure you do. Actually, it's all the fault of the CIA
Sat May 14, 2016, 12:44 PM
May 2016

(aided and abetted by the Illuminati, the Masons and the New World Order). EVERYBODY knows that!

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