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Sounds like Yeltsin-era privatization is on the menu. “What assets can we strip from the Venezuelan people, for pennies on the dollar?”
by intalentive 9mo ago
Sounds like Yeltsin-era privatization is on the menu. “What assets can we strip from the Venezuelan people, for pennies on the dollar?”
- andrepd 9mo agoVultures doesn't even begin to describe it.
- sho_hn 9mo agoSimilar to what Eastern Germany had done to it as well.
- polski-g 9mo ago[flagged]
- satvikpendem 9mo agoIt's a tit for tat game, as so happens in geopolitics. Thinking one side is "wrong" or "right" misunderstands the nature of what's being played.
- FireBeyond 9mo agoYep. Plunder Mode activated. After paying your entrance fee to [insert Trump-affiliated entity here], of course.
- ungreased0675 9mo agoThe last twenty years of socialism in Venezuela already did that. Have you seen the extreme poverty there? The once nice, now crumbling infrastructure? The Venezuelan people have already had most of their assets stolen.
- duejdj173e 9mo agoHow’s socialism working out in China? Maybe it’s the US sanctions and meddling..
- unmole 9mo agoYeah, the special economic zones, foreign direct investment and cut throat competition among private enterprises are all hallmarks of socialism. /s
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- goku12 9mo agoThat's a pretty good reason for these corporations to keep their grubby hands off Venezuela. At least give the people some time to recover, before stepping in to strip mine their economy again. And when I say 'again', you know that it was the exploitation by US companies that led to Hugo Chavez ascending to power, right?
- ungreased0675 9mo agoVenezuela requires billions of dollars to rebuild its pillaged industry and infrastructure. There will be no economic recovery for the people without that. Where should that investment come from?
- krapp 9mo agoVenezuela is now an American colony, do you not know how colonialism works? Do you need to read a history book? We're the ones doing the pillaging. We're going to strip them of what resources they have left, take their wealth for ourselves and leave them with nothing. We're going to make the people an underclass in their own country, serving the rich white colonizers who come in to stay at the luxury hotels and casinos Trump will be building there. Or maybe the Saudis, who knows? The world is full of rich vultures. We'll build data centers over the carcasses of their cities and shoot anyone who wants the water. We're going to rape their women and children. And then we're going to do it to Cuba. And then maybe Mexico.
- ungreased0675 9mo agoYou’re describing a hypothetical future, and I’m telling you that all that bad stuff has already been done to the Venezuelan people by the Chavistas. About 90% of the population lives in poverty and 50% in extreme poverty. Maduro’s government shot about two dozen people who had the nerve to protest the last election. Violence against women and children doesn’t get much worse. What incredible privilege you have to be worried about future labor exploitation at yet-to-be-built resort casinos.
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- zouhair 9mo agoOh, yeah the US meddling had nothing to do with anything happening there.
- ungreased0675 9mo agoThis seems like a thought-terminating cliche. If US meddling was so effective, why wasn’t Venezuela already doing what the US wanted?
- goku12 9mo ago> If US meddling was so effective, why wasn’t Venezuela already doing what the US wanted? Messing up the situation and leaving the natives to clean up after them is what the US does every time. > This seems like a thought-terminating cliche. The US excuses to military aggression is a cliché. Responses to clichés with a cliché should come as no surprise.
- missedthecue 9mo agoThe problems with the post soviet economy had nothing to do with FDI.
- clanky 9mo agohttps://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russia/tnamp/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...