Allied Parties Give Backing to Venezuela's Maduro

[joshcryer]

117. He should've never sold it so cheap.

That's the point. We all get upset, rightly, when foreign entities take resources and the people don't get a fair shake of it, but in this situation, it's not Chavez' fault, it's China for renigging. Of course, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to do so without Venezuela selling it to them so cheaply!

As far as selling gasoline, Venezuela already has in place quotas to states that border Colombia, because Venezuelans, poor Venezuelans, would carry big bottles and jugs of gasoline over the border and sell it to Colombians. It's cheaper than water, they spend $1 in Venezuela to get tens of gallons, go to Colombia and sell it at a little bit below market rates, and return with hundreds of dollars.



In the last elections, ironically, the chavistas were talking about implementing the quota system nation wide (basically the first few tanks are super cheap, after that they are priced at higher market rates). And guess who was against doing that? Why, none other than Capriles! (Who I criticized for this, btw, because he was the one supporting the chavista regressive policy.)

I posted you proof of that guys boligarchical past, if you refused to read the link, it's not my fault. Monica's report was accurate. I await your criticism of her report that is more substantiative than she worked for a bad news agency in the past.