Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: Venezuela's Maduro gives ultimatum to Caracas protesters [View all]Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)And his last mistake was choosing his successor with his blessing the most dim-witter character in the entire government. It was inevitable that whoever Chávez picked would be the one chavistas would vote for, but now's when people are realizing just what big mistake that was, and many, if not most, are regretting that their Supreme Commander chose the uneducated idiot of Maduro to succeed him. One only needs to take a look at the overall attendance at all the rallies called for by the regime. There's no comparison whatsoever to the amount of people that have been present in the opposition rallies, which are not only spontaneous, but also actually have legit causes to protest about. Just today the government held a rally to support the Armed Forces because they felt they had been "mistreated" by the opposition (funny, I remember seeing more students and innocent protesters actually having been photographed/filmed being actually mistreated and murdered by the national guard and chavista motorcycle gangs more than those on the armed forces' side), which is actually unconstitutional in itself, as the Armed Forces should not, according to the constitution, be used for political purposes, and one only need to take an aerial look at the overall turnout for that "rally" and see just how little support they have now. The government has lost the streets and the people, and they're getting REALLY desperate to hang on to power, because they know they will be judged if they lose their political immunity. Can't wait to see the names of the venezuelan government officials whose US-based assets will be seized when the US government carries out the sanctions they've unanimously voted in favor of. If Maduro and his colleagues are so anti-American, though, then they should of course have nothing to worry about, right? I'm sure there's no significant Chavista figure with any bank accounts or properties in the US, right?