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In reply to the discussion: Now Venezuela is running out of toilet paper [View all]dotymed
(5,610 posts)of oligarchic hegemony. They will do anything to topple a govt. that actually wants to help their poor and bring equality through a Socialist economy and governance. Especially a country with large reserves of natural resources.
It has pissed the oligarchs off terribly that Venezuela has helped the poor globally through their heating oil give- aways. "They know that if left alone (treated like other countries), Venezuela would show the world that capitalism is only meant to enrich the few.
No capitalistic, "let them eat cake" country would suffer these shortages of basic necessities. Hey, they can afford to pay the capitalists....
"CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN", BY John Perkins, is a must read if you want to understand the depths that capitalists (America especially) will go to, to control an economy that is resource rich.