Allied Parties Give Backing to Venezuela's Maduro

[joshcryer]

107. She reported the facts, as Al Jazeera is known to do.

What, you think she should've opined about what should've been done about the boligarchs?

Do you have an issue with the facts she presented? Chavez himself came out against the boligarchs. If you actually took the time to research the person she interviewed it's rather simple to see that everything she said is factual: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Ruperti

In the video he denies being a "boligarch" (wouldn't all boligarchs?). If you look at how big of a contractor he is, that is flat out wrong. Monica simply reported the facts, and the boligarch in question wound up revealing himself in a classic Al Jazeera style of reporting. It is brilliant really.

China's deal with Venezuela at $5 a barrel oil was that they couldn't resell it. They resold it. Making massive profits. That was theft outright from the Venezuelan people (if Venezuela sold it at market rates to China, then they would've got the profit, not China). This is neoliberalism in action. Making really crony deals with capitalists and screwing over the people under the auspices of "free enterprise." If that shit happened here in the US we'd be having an uproar of epic proportions.

As far as selling gasoline at $5 a barrel that they pay the US $200 a barrel? Most poor Venezuelans do not have cars. It only helps out the richer Venezuelans who do have cars. Simple logic here. According to Wikipedia Venezuela has 147 cars per 1000 people. 85% of Venezuelans don't have a car. Gas that is cheaper to buy than water, then, only benefits that 15% of Venezuelans who do have a car.