Well, it'll be end of Maduro. May be not exactly now, but soon.

You can't make stable fake socialism because it is fake (you do not own means of production), and because your oil extraction dropped so much :-)

@EspenB

By whom?

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/16615/socialism-from-basics/p1

Read this, if you did not still.

EspenB For some reason ALL socialism fails. No real success stories yet, in 100 years.

Ok guys, if you want to use something to generalize any "socialism don't work" thing, a clown getting out of some role and being pushed to be president by another clown with lots of guns and ridiculous tan surelly says a lot more about "democracy" and "liberty" than about socialism.

Btw a revival of op condor times is not even close to a example of capitalism sucess to any american people.

Just pointing.

@ EspenB "The general problem today is not fake socialism, but fake capitalism."

Can you explain what 'fake capitalism' is? It looks more like extreme capitalism to me.

Venezuela - The U.S. Game Plan And How To Respond To It

The game plan for the current U.S. regime-change operation against the government of Venezuela was written by Senator Marco Rubio with the support of Vice President Pence:

The American recognition of Mr. Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate president is far more than a symbolic measure, and presents new complications for Mr. Maduro. The idea was avidly promoted by Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who pushed the Trump administration to take such a step. In a speech to the Senate on Jan. 15, Mr. Rubio said that designating Mr. Guaidó as president would allow millions of dollars of Venezuelan government assets frozen in the United States to be at the disposal of opposition lawmakers, who could use them to fund new elections or humanitarian assistance.

The real amount the U.S. and Britain have 'frozen', or practically stolen, from Venezuela amount to several billion dollars, not just a few millions. Such 'freezing' of money owned by governments the U.S. does not like has become all too common. Together with a raft of other sanctions the economic war the U.S. has long waged against the country made the recovery of the Venezuelan economy nearly impossible.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/01/venezuela-the-us-game-plan-and-how-to-respond-to-it.html#more

Venezuela - U.S. Again Tries Regime Change Which Is Again Likely To Fail

The U.S. has been intervening in oil-rich Venezuela since at least the early 2000. Several U.S. backed attempts to oust the elected socialist government, first under Chavez and then under Maduro, failed. But the economic sanctions by the U.S. and its lackeys have made the life for business and the people in Venezuela more difficult. With access to international financial markets cut off, the government did its best to work around the sanctions. It, for example, bartered gold for food from Turkey. But the Bank of England, which is custodian of some of Venezuela's gold, has now practically confiscated it.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/01/venezuela-us-again-tries-regime-change-it-is-likely-to-fail.html#more

Venezuela’s gold in limbo amid tug-of-war at the Bank of England

In early November news was placed into the British media (Reuters and The Times) revealing that the Bank of England in London, one of the world’s largest custodians of gold bars on behalf of other central banks, was refusing to allow the withdrawal and repatriation of 14 tonnes of gold belonging to Venezuela’s central bank, the Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV).

According to these media reports, the delays / refusals by the Bank of England to allow the Venezuelan gold repatriation ranged from excuses about the prohibitive cost of transport insurance to concerns about future money laundering. In all cases, these excuses were bogus

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/venezuelas-gold-in-limbo-amid-tug-of-war-at-the-bank-of-england/

US interventions don't have a great history of making positive changes in societies. :-/

Twitter have wiped out 1200 accounts sided with Maduro government allegating a "campaign of spammy content focused on divisive political themes". The announcement is recent but the interference is being made since at least mid 2017.

Useful topic https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/20766/corporate-censorship-now-in-full-force/p1

This guys only start. We'll see during year wiping of huge number of accounts, sites and such.

@EspenB

Crony capitalism is normal capitalism during modern stage.

As I am quite sick of cries to return early days of capitalism and not being able to see reality.

We must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:

1. the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;
2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm#ch07

If you have oil and are smaller than the US, you are doomed.

Visual representation on why US will invade the country no matter that