Posted on 05/09/2019 4:07:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
If they towed the vehicle with him in it, I would pretty much bet they shot Marvin in the face.
Maybe overthrow is a better term than coup. Maduro has the power, and Guaido is trying to remove him from that power. Ballot box doesn’t matter. I think that attempt last week did more harm than good in that effort.
This is the democrat dream disarm us to shut us up and shut us down
Yes he does.
From the small amount I’ve been reading on the situation down there, I was led to believe there was a process for replacing Maduro and it had been met legally.
If that’s not the case, then I stand corrected.
*** From the small amount I’ve been reading on the situation down there, I was led to believe there was a process for replacing Maduro and it had been met legally. ***
Even if Guaido had been “legally” interim President, the Venezuelan Constitution specifies 30 days. Didn’t you see Eliot Abrams all tongue tied trying to get around that stipulation? February 14th, IIRC, was the end of the Guaido Pretense.
Agreed. I don’t know why we don’t. Of course with all the immigrants coming north it would all end up here.
No, I don’t have cable any longer. Six years...
I have tried to find that Abrams’ tongue tied vid again. I saw it on Twitter. They have tons of vid’s from independent journalists you will never see on network news.
Of course Twitter is suspending a lot of accounts which go against the neocon/neolib narrative.
Send in the d*mn Marines!!! This indecision is starting to sound like the betrayal of the Green Revolution in Iran a few years ago.
The real problem with Venezuela is that either Russia or China are going to get a strong beach-head in South America just like Cuba.
If that happens, our great great grand-kids will be dealing with it.
*** The real problem with Venezuela is that either Russia or China are going to get a strong beach-head in South America just like Cuba. ***
Russia already has over 6 billion dollars of mining contracts in Venezuela.
China has, IIRC, over 12 billion in oil, housing, agricultural and railway contracts w/ Venezuela. They have established manufacturing plants there
The idea that the US can just threaten, tighten their (since 2011) VZ Sanctions, attempt a coup, and VZ will roll over defies common sense, IMHO.
*** Send in the d*mn Marines!!! ***
Blackwater has offered 5,000 mercenaries. Time for the US taxpayers to whip out their checkbooks...again.
I’m guessing that it would be the wealthy opposition to pay for their services. (I’m assuming they are down there somewhere? Maybe in Colombia for the time being?) I just got done watching the Netflix series “Narcos”. I bet some drug lords would love to rule Venezuela.
Yeah, right...
Venezuela hasn’t got two pesos to rub together. ( or whatever their coinage is )
Russia and China haven’t done squat there economically.
To do what?
Probably not far from the mark with the congressional and Democrat leadership calling to jail subpoena ignorers of the administration in the House dungeon. Not very far to go to see the same frothing faces of the Democrats as the Maduro clan. Surprisingly similar.
Well thats disappointing. The Russians and Chicoms are gaining a foothold there which is never a good thing.
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