RE: The Ongoing Crisis in Venezuela and the "Petro Coin"
What was failed to be addressed in the @truthbeyondlies's article is that the economic crisis is a result of Nicolas Maduro's corruption & dictatorial regime. Petro is the brainchild of this regime as a proposed solution to improve their financial & economic problems; to show support for Petro is to show support for the regime. Therefore, I'm on the same boat as @corbettreport.
United States President Donald Trump and other critics have claimed the Petro, is unreliable. Yet in pre-sales alone, which began February 20, Venezuela has already made over $5 Billion USD during this period and, as of March 10th, has recorded more than 186,000 certified purchases.
Rather than hoping Petro & crypto will improve the country's problems, it's my personal opinion that they need to uproot the main cause of their despair: Maduro. He & his administration are the larger problem at hand, and until their government & leadership changes, there's no short-term solution that can fix their longterm problem. In addition, pre-sale performance is no preliminary indicator of a coin's longevity or future performance.
President Trump is right in his decision to not only sanction Venezuela (as a means to protest Maduro's failed leadership), but to also ban American citizens from purchasing Petro. Don't get me wrong: I'm in full support of helping Venezuela's citizens & fixing their economic crisis, but I'm not in support of their dictator; the same dictator who's proven to be the main cause of the country's problems & the root of all evil.
What I do not understand is the benefit of sanctions. They only hurt the people, never a corrupt government. At best they can create civil unrest. But it's the innocent who suffer, never the guilty.
When was the last time a corrupt politician caved in to sanctions? Never. All that will be accomplished is to impoverish and starve the population. So, sanctions are a "good" move because they hurt the population even more? That is just bizarre...
Oh so true. Sanctions never hurt the corrupt government, just the citizens. Which is why we feel that no government should be able to stop it's citizens from trading with any person. If you reside in a country which the US has put trading sanctions on, that should just apply on a government level. If you as a person have goods we would like to buy then we should be able to trade. (In a just and equal world I know, keep dreaming ;-) It is like two families fighting telling their children they can no longer be friends. Just because you have some kind of issue with them does not mean I do nor should we miss out due to someone elses psuedo irreperable differences that they force on a population of people as a whole rather than handling this like....adults. This seems like another cunning ploy (order out of chaos) by the elite and when you sit back and think about how they have such wantonly destructive behavior, who is to say that this is not being used as a major distraction to weaken the people of this nation whilst and even deeper agenda is carried out behind the scenes? Two of the most effective tactics ever used in the history of warfare is to cut off the enemies 1: Communication 2: Food/Water Supply but that is just speculative food for thought.
I think you hit the nail on the head. If you look at history, it always hits the people only.
It is a strategy to reduce and control the population and transfer their wealth. No matter what war you look at, only the people suffered while the one on the top are best friends. We are nothing but slaves. Moronic "human resources".
I just did some research on the US sanctions against Venezuela, it seems they will now also sanction the Petro Crypto currency created by the Venezuelan Government in some way.
President Trump signed and executive order about this. The order bans “all transactions related to, provision of financing for, and other dealings in, by a United States person or within the United States, any digital currency, digital coin, or digital token,” issued by Venezuela's government
Maduro and his administration is the source of the problem, there is no arugment there. They are down right evil and are not for their people in the slightes! We did not want the focus of this article to shift to him... we wanted this to be about the citizens. They are starving and what does Maduro do about it?
He eats an empanada during a live TV broadcast! So your people are starving and have lost an average of 24 pounds in a year and then there is :
Because that what leaders do! Such a jack*** (sorry rage was setting in there)!
Now to the Petro. Yes the the coin is the "brain child" (like the way you put that) of the government but there could be a way to still help the citizen with it. Venezuelan will be able to use this coin, so if the price is up that means they could get more bang for their Petro... just a thought. Now with that being said, there is still a risk in thinking like that because keep in mind that this is the same government which has made the bolivar the mess that it is today.
We get where you are coming from by supporting President Trump's bans however, Americans should have the choice to purchase whatever... We don't think that ANY Government entity should have the right to stop their citizens from trading with any other countries (we don't like being told what we can or cannot do) but that is a subject for another time.
You attack a man for eating food because you don't like his politics.
I believe that they are attacking a man who is eating food, in front of a nation of people who can no longer afford food due to his politics. There is a difference. If your people on average have lost 24 lbs in body mass due to your poor politics, the best course of action would be to at the very minimum not indulge on the tax payers funded food during live television.
@imjustsaying RIGHT. When I seen that picture, I think my jaw actually dropped. What type of person would do something like that?
We did not attack him over his politics...nor because he ate food. His citizen are starving so as a leader, or anyone that has the slightest bit of compassion would NOT get on Live TV and eat an empanada. What type of person would even do that?
Venezuela is a tropical country so if he is outside for a long time at a political rally he is bound to get hungry. I would love to ask whoever took the picture exactly what it is that they think they were doing. But judging by your reaction the propaganda is effective. In any case his big belly should be more provocation than the food in his mouth, it is however possible the hidden body armour may be making him look fatter than he actually is.
No doubt the man gets hungry, but at a time when the majority (90%) can not afford to eat on a daily basis, one would think that you could at the bare minimum wait until you are not on camera to eat a bite of food... His people lost on average 24 pounds in 2017. Good point, he is bigger in the stomach than 99.9% of the people... could be body armor, or could be all the fine food he gets to eat. It is just one of the many things that is wrong with his regime.