Maduro (VZ) to fight bureaucracy and corruption by creating another layer of bureaucracy, corruption

[DetlefK]

3. Waitwaitwaitwait. Let's see if I understand this correctly:

There is Maduro.

There is the Supreme Court.

There is the parliament.

There is the constitutional assembly, which is supposed to write a new constitution but instead spends its time overseeing elections and passing budgets.

And now there is the Bolivarian Congress of Peoples:
* Defined as the highest expression of popular power, despite being unelected.
* Headed by the head of state himself.
* Integrating command of civilian and military authorities into one political organ.



In translation:
Maduro has just defined himself as the highest expression of popular power, he has given himself an unelected parliament that is under his direct control, and he has given himself access to the military on a local level by bypassing the military chain of command.

Yeah... That counts as a socialist dictatorship.

Maduro now even broke with the good old socialist tradition of holding sham-elections before you install your sham-parliament.