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Venezuela's defense minister would like socialist dictator Maduro to resign
American Thinker ^ | January 10, 2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 01/10/2019 2:27:20 PM PST by detective

In Venezuela, the main thing we hope and watch for is the whole disaster ending. The people are starving. The aid is not getting through. The oil is gone. The cocaine is out of control. The terrorists are running wild. The torture has started. The oil infrastructure is collapsing. The currency is rotten, with inflation in seven digits. The corruption tops Mobutu's. The country is selling itself out like a raddled street whore to hostile powers in exchange for military weapons and foreign troops to base there, and getting itself into deep-dive debt. Millions are fleeing. The neighbors are angry.

Disasters always do end at some point. But as in the case of Cuba, which incidentally runs Venezuela, that could be a very long time. So the natural thing is to watch for the cracks forming, to watch the opposition for a critical legislative maneuver or, more likely, a Venezuelan Spring – to watch the neighbors, to watch the military, to watch anyone out there who can force some kind of change in the hellhole.

You know that dictator Nicolás Maduro, who just swore himself into office for another term after a fraud election, is busy torturing troops and their relatives. So it certainly leaped out to a lot of us that Maduro's defense minister, Vladimir Padrino (perfect name for a mafia-state functionary, given that "padrino" means "godfather," and Vlad, well, you know...), reportedly told Maduro behind closed doors, but not beyond U.S. eavesdropping capacities, that he needed to step down and get the hell out.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: cuba; energy; hydrocarbons; iran; johnbolton; juanguaido; maduro; maga; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; opec; russia; saudiarabia; venezuela; vladimirpadrino
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More infighting in socialist Venezuela.
1 posted on 01/10/2019 2:27:20 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

Tomorrow’s News today:

Venezuelan Defense Minister found dead of apparent suicide.............


2 posted on 01/10/2019 2:32:09 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: detective
but not beyond U.S. eavesdropping capacities

IOW, We paid him to do it...............

3 posted on 01/10/2019 2:33:14 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: detective

I’m sure Maduro has a few shekels stashed away in a Swiss bank account. Pretty good for a bus driver turned dictator.


4 posted on 01/10/2019 2:33:41 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

Yep, someones gonna wake up with a Colombian necktie...


5 posted on 01/10/2019 2:34:32 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: detective

The Cubans run the show and Maduro made them look bad with his comic banana republic dictator impersonation.

He’ll go quietly or be executed like Hazifullah Amin.


6 posted on 01/10/2019 2:34:49 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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The oil is gone. ...
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Really? Gone from the ground or gone from the surface?


7 posted on 01/10/2019 2:34:53 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. A)
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To: Red Badger

“Venezuelan Defense Minister found dead of apparent suicide.............”

Yep, one of those “shot himself in the back of the head twice and cut his own throat before expiring” suicides.


8 posted on 01/10/2019 2:36:15 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: antidemoncrat

His family is worth billions—always the case in a dictatorship. I am sure he has that stashed somewhere.


9 posted on 01/10/2019 2:37:44 PM PST by Fungi
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To: detective

Not bloody likely.


10 posted on 01/10/2019 2:40:53 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: InterceptPoint

The infrastructure has all broken down and has been vandalized


11 posted on 01/10/2019 2:42:35 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: detective

Socialist countries ALWAYS double down on socialism, and they never ever change peacefully. Do not expect a change unless there is a major population reduction...


12 posted on 01/10/2019 2:50:27 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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I wonder, what part of ‘dictator’ does he not understand?............


13 posted on 01/10/2019 2:54:41 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Fungi

He probably has it stashed in Miami and the dimrats will protect him. They love dictators.


14 posted on 01/10/2019 3:04:34 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: detective

The defense minister does not seem to be working from a position from much strength, if his sole threat is really his own resignation. If the DM and/or military officers can force Maduro out, that is one thing. But for DM to simply threaten to resign (which has yet to occur) does not suggest that Maduro has lost power internally.


15 posted on 01/10/2019 3:06:19 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: Red Badger
Venezuelan Defense Minister found dead of apparent suicide.............

Yep, he won’t last a week.

16 posted on 01/10/2019 3:07:41 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: detective

He’s asking nicely. Next time he won’t be so nice.


17 posted on 01/10/2019 3:36:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats decide only elections they win are valid.)
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To: Red Badger

This will not end well—lots of folks are going to die.


18 posted on 01/10/2019 3:49:04 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Looks like they are about to go “Full Pinochet”.


19 posted on 01/10/2019 3:49:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
This will not end well—lots of folks are going to die.

Hopefully a lot of the ones that deserve to.

20 posted on 01/10/2019 3:49:59 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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