Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

The situation in Venezuela makes my heart hurt. Reading about how Hugo Chavez destroyed PDVSA through ignorance and incompetence is a real life example of how much damage a populist strongman can do.

Re: Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

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Post by alacombe » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 6:23 PM UTC

prolikewh0a wrote: post #3

PSUV really needs to replace Maduro with someone more competent.

Why would you blame the head of the system rather than the underlying ideology ?

Re: Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

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Post by alacombe » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

LarryDarrell wrote: post #5

The situation in Venezuela makes my heart hurt. Reading about how Hugo Chavez destroyed PDVSA through ignorance and incompetence is a real life example of how much damage a populist strongman can do.

why "populist" ? I don't think the starving Venezuelans condone the system very much. Venezuelan policies are at foremost socialist.

Re: Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

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Post by Findeton » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 6:26 PM UTC

LarryDarrell wrote: post #5

The situation in Venezuela makes my heart hurt. Reading about how Hugo Chavez destroyed PDVSA through ignorance and incompetence is a real life example of how much damage a populist strongman can do.

The problem is that many people believe government is the solution to everything. Surprisingly this is most true in latin-american countries where the government is not that strong. What I see when I visit those countries is that some sort of government is always there, but not the official one. Frontiers there are a wish list and the few that pay taxes get to pay it in the name of everyone else...

Re: Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

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Post by Carlton87 » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

LarryDarrell wrote: post #5

The situation in Venezuela makes my heart hurt. Reading about how Hugo Chavez destroyed PDVSA through ignorance and incompetence is a real life example of how much damage a populist strongman can do.

Replace strongman with socialist and your statement makes much more sense.

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Post by SllX » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 6:32 PM UTC

Carlton87 wrote: post #9

LarryDarrell wrote: post #5

The situation in Venezuela makes my heart hurt. Reading about how Hugo Chavez destroyed PDVSA through ignorance and incompetence is a real life example of how much damage a populist strongman can do.

Replace strongman with socialist and your statement makes much more sense.

A strongman socialist is still a strongman.