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I am not saying that it is right. But I just don't know how a non-US compliant government can stay in power without questionable tactics. If you create enough
by stfu 13y ago
I am not saying that it is right. But I just don't know how a non-US compliant government can stay in power without questionable tactics.
If you create enough internal fraction by pumping up a pro-US opposition and external through embargos and sanctions, even the most anti-US electorate will soon or later question their positions.
- rafaelm 13y agoVenezuela has not received any embargoes or sanctions from the US. If anything, the biggest financing source this government has had to prop up the disastrous economy are oil prices and the income they get from the US as the first buyer of venezuelan oil. I would say that having one of the highest criminal rates in the world, highest inflation in the world, constant blackouts, constant basic products scarcity should be enough to make the electorate question their positions.
- greenyoda 13y agoFor that matter, the U.S. even allows the Venezuelan-owned oil company Citgo to operate gas stations in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo Citgo Petroleum Corporation (or Citgo) is a United States–incorporated, Venezuela-owned refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of Venezuela.