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This was written in May. Apparently the situation has gotten exponentially worse. It went from "Hey I hear Venezuela is really beautiful and the people are fri
by jimmywanger 10y ago
This was written in May. Apparently the situation has gotten exponentially worse.
It went from "Hey I hear Venezuela is really beautiful and the people are friendly. Maybe I should go visit, my dollar will go a long way there, and they'll be happy for foreign currency" to "Holy crap the State Department can't even guarantee that they'll be able to get me home if thing go really badly."(https://twitter.com/OSACState/status/809519262150918145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/OSACState/status/809519262150918145?ref_...)
It's such a shame. At this point the government and military are already all-in on repression. If they allowed democratic change at all, there will be a lot of bodies hanging from lampposts. So they just keep on trying to stay in power any way they can.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoAt this point the only thing I can see changing the situation is either a full scale uprising/civil war, or one of Venezula's neighbors will come in and "help out" with keeping the peace by installing troops and a puppet government. I don't see any path where the people who currently have power would relinguish it voluntarily or let the people prosecute them for misdeeds.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoWhat will be the tipping point?
- ChuckMcM 10y agoHistorically it seems that when the population feels it has less to lose by throwing out the government than it does by keeping it. Then it just needs someone with a bit of charisma to emerge to pull it together. Peron, Fidel, Mao, Langton, Lenin, Adams, Etc. Generally one person who says "I'm not going to take this crap any more" and unites the people behind him to make big changes. Sometimes you get the Magna Carta and sometimes you get Hitler.