[Billthedrill]

No food, no foreign currency, nowhere to get another loan, no credibility, no economy, no hope. All that is left is a plethora of excuses. And in the western media the band plays on.

This deliberate and cold-hearted defense of the follies of socialism is a crime as great as Walter Duranty's or I.F. Stone's with respect to, as Martin Amis put it bitterly, "Laughter and the Twenty Million" in the Ukraine. We are informed here that the culprit is "recession". It isn't. It's rampant corruption, hyper-inflation, greed, ideological blindness, and pure evil.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Is there enough waste that, if eliminated, Venezuela could still live on its international oil business?

Pray for the people of Venezuela.