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MADem

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1. Maduro thinks he can keep pumping the money outta the ground...

Reply to Marksman_91 (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 10:51 PM

Sep 2014

He's already mortgaged VZ's future to China, and he's too busy placating the boligarchs who are robbing him blind that he doesn't have a handle on the day-to-day at all.

It's astounding that a country with the national resources of VZ could be lumbering towards "failed state" status....

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As woes mount, economic stats vanish in Venezuela [View all] Marksman_91 Sep 2014 OP

Maduro thinks he can keep pumping the money outta the ground... MADem Sep 2014 #1

The thing is that he's fully aware about the corruption in the government and those who do it Marksman_91 Sep 2014 #2

There will come a day when the piper must be paid. I think Maduro will have to run away to Cuba. MADem Sep 2014 #5

Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua would be the other possibilities Bacchus4.0 Sep 2014 #7

Stroll down memory late via Time Magazine article on Ven. former President Carlos Andres Perez: Judi Lynn Sep 2014 #3

You'd think then that a president AFTER CAP wouldn't make the same mistakes he did Marksman_91 Sep 2014 #4

I have to agree--as I said, that place is looking like a failed state floating on oil. Sad. nt MADem Sep 2014 #6