https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ium=onesignal&utm_campaign=push_notifications The people of Venezuela are literally starving because of President's Maduro's socialist policies. Biden with his left wing policies is coming to his rescue. It disgusts to the core.
Maduro is the dictator of kleptocracy supported by China and Russia/Cuba because its an easy way to annoy the US. So its a proxy war, again, between the three narcissist sociopath bullies. Its what happens when you elect a populist. Maduro (a bus driver who name means banana) would have been ousted long ago without his proxy war partner's support. America, China and Russia should all go to hell and stop these proxy wars. Bananacide..
It's dirty business for sure. Unless they are total idiots, and they are, they will at least try to bundle it into one of the "oil for food" type of programs where there is at least the pretense that a certain per cent of revenue goes for for food in medicine. Those are all bogus too. All the money goes to the dictators and their buddies but the way the dance works is that when you set up the programs you are supposed to at least put a scam together that has good optics.
What is socialist about reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in oil profits but sharing none of that with the people while the government gets rich? Nah... its a dictatorship, dont be fooled by poor teachers in your high school social studies classes...
Neat trick the shareholder class pulled (among others), was to make the working man think socialism (an economic form) is the same as authoritarianism (a political form).
yeah I loved all the talk about how Castro was a socialist.... the man was a dictator pure and simple who had people killed and confiscated wealth for himself and ruled with an iron hand. Doesnt matter what ideology he claimed to be sworn to uphold in his warped mind of marxism or socialism... To claim it is the same economy as Sweden or what even someone like bernie sanders advocates is just how bad the U.S. education system is. A dictator like Putin, Castro, Chavez and even Xi to an extent are not doing anything other than being controlling dictators in every sense of the word.
It is the old story of quibbling over definitions. If you discuss with an avowed communist in the UK or US about the evils of communism in the former soviet union he will respond that he former Soviet Union did not practice communism.
Same thing happens when discussing the failings of capitalism, say bailouts, the so-called privatizing of profits and socializing of losses; he will respond that's not real capitalism that's crony capitalism.