Posted on 01/23/2019 3:56:44 PM PST by Texas Fossil
One Venezuelan state has a muslim governor- pro-Iran
Maduro going to Turkey? He won’t like it there. Probably won’t like Russia either.
Guess it beats staying in Venezuela. Ceausescu Moment pending.
I assumed the new guy wasn’t conservative by any definition because he wasn’t in jail or exile.
Venezuela shares one problem with Cuba and many American cities: The cream of the crop has left, and many of those people remaining want a nanny state. In all three cases, many of the whites have left, and the non-whites remaining tend to be “socialist”. Over twenty years ago people from Venezuela’s upper and middle classes started moving their families here to the NYC area; they knew what was coming.
It was an historical reference, too exhaustive to elaborate here. And yes it is a part of Europe. There is a small land area west of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, contiguous with Greece and Bulgaria, which is defined as being in Europe. Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is in Europe.
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