Enabling Law draft granting dictatorial powers to Maduro

[Socialistlemur]

15. Those laws weren't intended to fight corruption

Were they? It's quite irrational for a National Assembly to delegate its legislating power to a really corrupt government so it can legislate new laws to fight corruption.

What truly amazes me is the brazen attitude some display in support of,what's clearly a self coup or auto golpe. Venezuela has had a really weak democracy. The current regime is eliminating the last vestiges. Lets see what happens in the December elections, and whether the emerging fascist dictatorship, which is clearly led by foreign forces (that is the Cuban dictatorship) will even try to maintain a veneer to satisfy its propaganda efforts.

My personal opinion is that we will see a harsh repressive campaign buttressed by the "anti corruption" laws passed by Herr Fuehrer, with press censorship and mass arrests. The Venezuelans tend to be very mild people, but I expect the regime will goad street action. This will allow them to arrest and or assassinate those willing to put up resistance. This will lead to a massive flight of the middle class, border closures, restrictions on travel and a copy of the usual iron curtain techniques. As for the economy, I would expect them to default on debt payments, and to end up looking like a slightly improved version of Cuba. But oil production will crash. And I wouldn't expect to have reliable elevator service, electricity, water or medicine supplies. And expect a form of food rationing. It's the Cuban system being imposed on Venezuela.