That never works.
Posted on 04/19/2018 8:30:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Venezuela arrested two Chevron employees in Caracas Monday on trumped up charges of corruption.
On the surface, the act looks just plain insane: Venezuela's oil industry has cratered into a heap of rubble. Production of oil has fallen to 1949 levels, and five-digit inflation is destroying the value of the currency. Those two events are related: some 25,000 highly skilled state oil company employees have walked away from their jobs, unable to stand working for worthless currency that won't even buy them a cup of coffee.
Oil is responsible for 90% of Venezuela's export earnings and pretty well finances the Chavista government. The only hope this disastrous oil-collapsed country has left for any reprieve is in its foreign investors, such as Chevron. Even the Chinese and the Russians, who had been Venezuela's great white sugar-daddy hope, aren't touching them. There's just Chevron and a few other companies, hedging their bets that the Chavistas won't last by their willingness to wait them out.
And now Venezuela is arresting them.
Suicide? Naaah. Last year, the Chavistas, in a good imitation of what their Iranian and Cuban allies do, took a U.S. hostage. He was a Mormon kid from Utah who fell in love with a Venezuelan woman and foolishly agreed to visit her in that country. For his trouble, he got arrested and thrown into in a Chavista dungeon, where he remains to this day, a sad hostage to the dictatorial regime of Nicolás Maduro. The motive for the senseless arrest was to use the kid as a bargaining chip for the two nephews of his wife, who were busted by the Drug Enforcement Administration in Haiti for big-league drug-trafficking while actually living in the palace household.
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It will only get worse until the whole country collapses in great violence. Then the vultures come in.
Spike the wells and withdraw all infrastructure from the big V.
Just wondering how many Venezuelans we have coming through Central America to our Southern Border?
I wonder if they are just going to turn to cannibalism?
Wyatt’s Torches.
Revelation 17:15,16 - And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages. And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the whore; they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire."
Just wondering how many Venezuelans we have coming through Central America to our Southern Border?
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None. Their currency is so worthless all they can afford to do is cross to the other side of the Venezuelan border and live in abject poverty.
Excellent reference!
If I am Russia, I am looking and licking my chops.
Same for China.
The question is how to take over by proxy so the USA doesn’t get involved.
Ayn Rand was right about a lot when it came to destroyers, moochers, looters, and the like.
Probably has started. Not something anyone’s going to talk about.
If these Chevron employees are American citizens, it’s time for US to move in.
I suspect they are not, however.
Absolutely she was. Saw it with her own eyes and transcribed it into a great novel.
Maybe then another US President will resurrect the Monroe Doctrine.
I hope so
Very much so.
The book nut spousal unit will not read any Ayn Rand.
Well that will surely do something to whatever income they get from oil.
Some time ago I found a progressive over at Hannity talking up equivalence between Venezuela under socialism and some other place (Central American, I can’t presently where) that he characterized as right wing.
I do recall trying to point out the inherent difference that invalidated the comparison he’d been trying to make: that his right wing country had never had much wealth but Venezulea under socialism had rapidly gone from prosperous to a basket case ... but he simply refused to understand.
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