I was thinking that too...that, eventually, somebody may want to return to rebuild from the rubble.

More power to these folks...

What a lovely Gulch it would be!

when, not if, the collapse comes here, it will be no different...300 million dead in the first year...

"Did you learn something?" Apparently not Venezuelans. They voted in and approved collectivist regimes on several occasions and sentenced themselves to death by starvation.

maybe thats why they call it a "revolution". things dont really change

Even from opposite ends of the African continent Venezuela has somehow followed Argentina's lead in destroying their economy, and still many American's will not understand how.

Well done video and very good to listen to:
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina (America)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33i_B...

I have always wondered that too ,with these all these terrible leaders, yet we have had them here for years must be that good folks don't kill
even if they are bad guys
The theme for coups has been replace a bad guy with a more despicable guy.

yeah, but he probably would have died with just one of them. with all the unrest in venezuela, it just seems that SOMEONE would be pissed off enough to take out Maduro

I believe There was more than one bullet for JFK.

Best freedom to those students as they will be needed in the future reconstruction of all Venezuela . Brain drain, another aspect of the destruction Socialism causes to its populace. Sad for the Venezuelan folks who opposed Chavez and his minions. The rest of the looters beware.

hitler kept in power for years too. perhaps I am minimizing the effect of fear of the government, since we really dont have that here (at least I havent been affected by it (yet)). With all the assassinations going on, one would just think Maduro would be killed off. All it would take is one bullet for a disaffected person to accomplish that. Worked on JFK and nearly worked on Reagan....

On the one hand you are assuming elections are unbiased.
On the other hand do we assume that Venezuelan people have the understanding of and respect for free markets and individual liberty (that Americans are supposed to have,) or is socialism propaganda pervasive and convincing enough to create a socialist majority in Venezuela?
Stalin ruled Russia for 3 decades. Arguably many of Stalin's "supporters" did so in fear for their lives. The same could be true in Venezuela, and the NYT would never mention it.
Truth is elusive when the mainstream media is active.

My brother was in Venezuela about a decade before it all went to h-ll. He could see the writing on the wall and was glad to know his time there wasn't going to extend to the collapse surely to come. I do pity the people who couldn't leave and got trapped in what is now the epitome of Atlas Shrugged's final chapters: widespread looting and corruption by the few remaining elites while the nation itself crumbles - despite the rich oil deposits and plentiful labor.

Enough people who live there must STILL believe in socialism to keep their president and government. It is mind-boggling actually. I am amazed that their government is still in power and Maduro isnt assassinated already. But he must have supporters, so they deserve what they get...

Uh, uh, nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
The NYT, all the lib mass media, the Jackass Party, RINO moles and so-called progressives everywhere operate under the delusion that good ole' Yankee ingenuity can make socialism work--not just for America but for a whole globalist freaking world!
Yay! Whoopee! Clap! Clap! Clap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxZr...
Just noticed on the YouTube sidebar that libs have their Donald Palpatine version. Well, of course they do.

I learned that the NYT hasn't learned a thing. They stilll infer that this is the fault of the rich and middle class who left instead of having their hard earned assets confiscated by looters.

Then the NYT blames the "smugglers" who charge for the boat ferry service that the illegal immigrants voluntarily hire to escape from the socialist disaster that the NYT admired.

Meanwhile, the finest students from Venezuela are coming to my university, a couple of whom now work for me.

The articles is about mass attempts to escape because they can't survive there anymore, not that that they want to serve others. They have to risk their lives to get out because serving is all that is legal.

The article could explain why the food shelves are bare but it doesn't. The reference to Chavez as follows"........ But after President Hugo Chávez vowed to break the country’s economic elite and redistribute wealth to the poor, the rich and middle class fled to more welcoming countries in droves, creating what demographers describe as Venezuela’s first diaspora."

The pictures and story are tragic. All these people want to serve one another, want to provide one another the things they need to live, in free trades, but they have to risk their lives to get to places were they're allowed to do it.

Venezuela is reaping the rewards of its anti-Vive policies.