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Showing Original Post only (View all)Chavez promises to cause an economic crisis in Venezuela and Colombia [View all]
http://voices.yahoo.com/venezuela-cuts-trade-ties-colombia-1268651.htmlChavez has promised that he will cause an economic crisis in both countries by suspending trade with the Colombians. Venezuela depends on Colombia for imports and their chief dependency is food. Venezuelan officials claim that they will be able to find an alternative source for food within a short amount of time, though they may suffer in the interim. The trade between Colombia and Venezuela amounts to billions of dollars and this is certainly something that will affect both the Colombians and the people of Venezuela.
not the first time Chavez did this:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aj0PsOF0AQfU&refer=latin_america
This is what Capriles and Uribe are being sued for in Colombia. Aww well, we'll let our little chavista comemierdas have some fun while the country falls into the abyss.
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Bacchus4.0
May 2013
OP
right now I think we have Colombia, Capriles, Uribe, Polar, and the US to blame for
Bacchus4.0
May 2013
#7
Slightly off topic, but I had an Indian friend (The India next to Pakistan, not Indigenous)
Flatulo
May 2013
#11
I've heard the same. Heard that is the method they used in the Phillipines too
Bacchus4.0
May 2013
#13
Oh dear....I have to say, I think the government has "touched bottom" with those sorts of
MADem
May 2013
#27
yeah, so? I admit he's not a bus driver, but do you have a problem with soldiers?
Bacchus4.0
May 2013
#10
The bus driver is having trouble with the military, because he doesn't have the chops that his
MADem
May 2013
#29
You really don't like working class people, do you? Otherwise why would you keep pointing
idwiyo
May 2013
#46
Nothing against the working class, but I think as we found out with GWB, being a 'nice guy'
Flatulo
May 2013
#47
My comment has very little to do with Maduro himself. It has a lot to do with disdain and outright
idwiyo
May 2013
#49
Agreed on all points. Some of the smartest people I knew worked their way up, and some
Flatulo
May 2013
#50
I think I am going to go check if hell froze over! This would be first time we actually agreed on
idwiyo
May 2013
#52
I want you to know I alerted on this post and your prior one that got deleted.
catnhatnh
May 2013
#14
You do understand that "Chavista" refrers to people who endorse the party of Hugo Chavez?
MADem
May 2013
#31
There's plenty to criticize when it comes to the Boligarchs as well as the opposition--there's
MADem
May 2013
#41