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EX500rider

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9. No, Venz was circling the drain way before the price of oil dropped.
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 01:11 PM
Aug 2017

Due to government interference in the economy.
Over printing Bolivars (their currency) causing rampant inflation.
Setting up multi level exchange rates making dollars hard to get to buy imports.
Seizing foreign and local assets drying up foreign investment and driving off oil field know how causing oil production to fall.
Failing to diversify their economy while they still had the money to do so.
Wasting 100 billion dollars on vote buying give away's while ignoring crucial infrastructure, resulting in more falling oil production and daily blackouts.
Setting price controls during rapid inflation resulting in driving away goods. (nobody can sell under cost for long)
Subsiding gas prices at a ridiculously low level, resulting in rampant black market cross border selling.
Ignoring the spiraling murder rate, the capital Caracas is now the murder capital of the world with a rate over 100 per 100,000 per year. (the US rate is under 5)

All self inflicted wounds.



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It wasn't too long ago that big oil... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2017 #1
You really should learn something about Venezuela COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #3
Shell and MobilExxon... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2017 #7
Shell (a Dutch company btw) and Exxon what? EX500rider Aug 2017 #10
Oops... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2017 #13
Yes but what about Shell & Exxon was relevant to Venz.? EX500rider Aug 2017 #15
Your basic premise is still mistaken. Big oil has not contributed COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #11
And this... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2017 #14
And that was 15 years ago... EX500rider Aug 2017 #16
Who says the right wingers... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2017 #20
Maybe they are agitated... EX500rider Aug 2017 #22
which, again had nothing to do with Big Oil. COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #18
Bush, Cheney... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2017 #21
What sanctions? EX500rider Aug 2017 #23
Anything newer than 15+ years ago??? COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #24
Oh, and then there is this... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2017 #8
No, Venz was circling the drain way before the price of oil dropped. EX500rider Aug 2017 #9
What do you think the excerpt you published is supposed to show? COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #12
Soon the Worker's Paradise will be FREEEEEE!!!!! Loki Liesmith Aug 2017 #2
Yep. FREE DUMB COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #4
Saw more propaganda from the "Maduro can do no wrong" crowd... Archae Aug 2017 #5
Venezuelan president removes chief prosecutor, a leading critic, from office Eugene Aug 2017 #6
I guess all the "CIA coup/Big Oil" DUers are busy today Blue_Tires Aug 2017 #17
Trying desperately to find some 'cover' for Maduro's COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #19
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