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Latin America

Marksman_91

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6. Considering the circumstances...

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Reply #5)

Sat May 17, 2014, 08:36 PM

May 2014

Such as having the biggest oil reserves in the world with an average price of over $100 a barrel for 15 years, and being in a country so rich in terms of resources and touristic opportunity, and still somehow managing to make the country the laughingstock of the continent, I'd say that makes it the worst in the world, or at the least the most obviously corrupt

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Venezuela National Guard arrest over 105 protesters in new crackdown. 11 of them are minors [View all] Marksman_91 May 2014 OP

It's disgraceful and Maduro should be ashamed. MADem May 2014 #1

But don't you see? It's these filthy fascist oligarchs that are the cause of the country's problems! Marksman_91 May 2014 #2

The Maduro B'oil'igarchs make those fools look like pikers--they're robbing the joint blind! nt MADem May 2014 #3

worst government in the hemisphere. in the world?? n/t Bacchus4.0 May 2014 #5

Considering the circumstances... Marksman_91 May 2014 #6

Young boys, old women. No discrimination in Venezuela government repression Bacchus4.0 May 2014 #4