Maduro Now Owns Venezuela's Economy and Its Collapse

[GatoGordo]

5. They have been silent a long time

I've been lurking this board for years, never commenting until recently. Oh, how they lauded Chavez and Chavismo. And anyone who DARED second guess them in this forum was a "right-wing troll" and "disruptor".

But once the wheels started coming off their Socialist wagon, (they ran out of stolen money!) it didn't matter that Chavismo was becoming a dictatorship. What mattered was that Chavismo currently held power, and would use ANY MEANS to retain that power. Any other political persuasion was to be labeled "fascist" and any moderation of their Bolivarian project to be called "regression"... going backwards towards military dictatorship.

What I find funny now, about the Chavistas, is half of them are now seeking to embrace the "reforms" (private ownership of government built housing*, ending the practice of PSUV distributing CLAP bags) that the opposition demanded... the other half are "all in" for Cuban style democracy.

*Golly... who would have thought that the Chavistas would use Chavista control of housing and food to keep their core constituency voting for them?