It can't happen here. Right? Right? Please tell me a story.
The cataclysmic devaluation of the bolivar in Venezuela and the brutal repression in the South American country now go hand in hand; state security agencies are increasingly demanding bribes in relatively strong Colombian pesos to release unjustly detained protesters.
It is already public knowledge that the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) and the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) take advantage of opposition protests to arrest innocent young people, torture them, and then request bribes of between USD $500 and USD $1,000 to free them; however, in border states they are also increasingly charging such payments in Colombian pesos.
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https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2017/07/11/venezuela-currency-devalued-colombian-pesos/
'Not real socialism' - American college students who have never experienced socialism.
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If they get their way they will experience it. It's a hard way to learn a lesson.
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You cannot have a socialist state without brute oppression. Eventually, the brutes take control. And now they don't even accept the currency that they have foisted on a nation. Irony thy name is Maduro.
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True! While Venezuela would have eventually collapsed the reason it collapsed so fast is Maduro is such a week leader. It take a strong leader to kept a socialist government running and Hugo Chavez was a strong leader and would have held it together for a long time..
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