Re: The ongoing fall of Venezuela
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:04 pm
Authoritarian systems tend towards corruption to much greater degrees than open systems. Do I need to drag out the Lord Acton quote?
Where everything is possible.
http://echoesofthemultiverse.com/
When the core notion of your economic and political system is "we want your stuff; therefore we're taking your stuff" how far does one have to go before corruption sets in?
Well, someone's got to eat the vermin. They already ate the cats.Batgirl III wrote: ↑Tue May 22, 2018 3:50 am Don’t forget the inbuilt “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” aspect of collectivist ideology too. Maria Gabriela Chávez has a reported net worth of $4.2 billion USD. Meanwhile, her fellow citizens in the glorious workers’ paradise her father built are eating vermin.
Five million Venezuelan bolivars is the equivalent of $1.45. It's also roughly a minimum-wage worker's entire monthly salary in the South American country.
¡Viva la revolución!“Breitbart.com” wrote:“Locals have been protesting since 3 am due to lack of water on the Charallave-Ocumare highway, and are now requesting the presence of the media,” wrote onlooker Rocely Romero in Twitter.
The last major water shortage in Venezuela was in February 2016, when authorities announced a weekend “maintenance” session designed to maintain sufficient water levels during a period of drought. An estimated three million in Caracas consequently went without water, where the average temperature at that time of year is 68F.
The lack of clean water is the latest in a string mass shortages experienced in Venezuela under the rule of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
That’s right. Venezuela might not be able to roll out the new currency because they literally do not have the bills to pass out... Seems Baroness Thatcher was only half right: the socialists have run out of other people’s money and run out of their own.Venezuela’s new series of bank notes, to be called bolívares soberanos, and necessary because the nation’s rampant inflation turned much of what it has been using into nothing more than play money, was supposed to be introduced on June 4.
When the Maduro government delayed it to Aug. 4, the national banker’s association asked for an extra month to prepare.
As of now, the Monetary Research Institute reports in its MRI Banker’s Guide to Foreign Currency, there is no indication that any of the seven new denominations, from 2 to 200 bolívares soberanos, have even arrived in Venezuela.