Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "'We're starving to death': City of Maracaibo symbolises Venezuela's collapse" video.

  1. And Zimbabwe. And Cambodia, And North Korea.
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  2.  @aseriesoftriangleswecalltr6065  He's just the typical Western leftist.
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  3.  @uneVacheQuiRit  <shut up! They are not a communist country.... it's a military dictatorship with capitalist values (masses are exploited for the enrichment of the elites)> Yes they are. Like every other socialist/communist regime. <also cuba has implemented communist theories and they have one of the best healthcare system and the highest literacy rate in the world.> That's not saying much as Cuba has no job market and many have to work a 2nd job as taxi-drivers, prostitutes, etc. to help supplement their meager state wages. And also, Cuba is dependent on tourism, outsourcing doctors to other countries in which the government gets 90% of their earnings and remittances from Cubans living abroad to keep the economy afloat.
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  4.  @ratulxy  He is wrong as this situation was caused by Chavez and Maduro.
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  5. Because the US government owes Venezuela nothing and is certainly not responsible for the policies that Venezuela chose for itself which happens to be total government control of everything.
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  6. <it doesn't matter if they had crime or dictators atleast people were not dieing because of hunger.> But they were in 2015 when shortages were rampant. A solid 2 years before any sanction took place.
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  7.  @samusaran7317  Pretty much.
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  8. No. Chavez and Maduro long seized them and shut them down.
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  9. Only after successfully fighting off the Russians.
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  10. Yes it is as he and Chavez did away with self-sufficiency in favor of handouts.
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  11.  @oscarrodriguez2439  Why don't you stop watching TeleSur propaganda?
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  12.  @davewilliamson3723  In socialism, there are only 2 entities that eat well. The government and the military.
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  13. Apparently it is. Socialism doesn't allow self-sufficiency.
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  14.  @GarretKrampe  I think you mean the Venezuelan government as food and medicine are exempt from sanctions. They are seized at the border denied entry by Maduro vid the military.
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  15. And Maduro's policies really don't help.
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  16. And you think Biden is going to be any better?
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  17. Venezuela gets no support from the UN. It's Russia and China propping it up.
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  18. No. Venezuela's problem is on Chavez and Maduro and the people that voted for them.
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  19. Exactly.
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  20. And Danny Glover. And Oliver North. And the rest of the Hollywood left.
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  21.  @machsimillian14  And a far-left one at that.
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  22. Exactly.
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  23. It's her money and she doesn't owe the people of Venezuela a damn thing!
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  24. Because it's of little consequence as most of the problems were caused by Maduro and his policies?
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  25. @Maria Liberty Bus-driver. But yeah!
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  26. SMH. And that's why you can't let just any immigrant in the country. Especially one who still supports the same policies and model responsible for why they fled in the first place.
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  27. <The poor, who are innocent, suffer the greatest impact> Not exactly. They voted for this mess which makes them every bit as guilty as the Chavista regime for the current state of Venezuela.
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  28. The same oil that is unsellable due to the Venezuelan government's mismanagement and neglect of oil refinery infrastructure?
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  29. The sanctions are the least of Venezuela's problems. The real problem is with Maduro's desperation to stay in power at all costs.
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  30. <but the population is innocent and suffering we should supply them with food and medicine like NOW! > The population that voted for Maduro are not innocent as they are accomplices.
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  31. It's better to have and not need than to need and not have. Are you saying you prefer (state-imposed) impoverishment over abundance?
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  32.  @ayliahloss2324  Not really as there's this thing about saving for a rainy day.
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  33.  @ayliahloss2324  Whatever, welfare queen!
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  34. That's their social safety net.
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  35. By bankrupting the private sector responsible for most of the revenue generated to fund his policies which is buying votes from the poor.
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  36.  @ra2136  After all, don't socialist claim to be self-sufficient?
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  37.  @HC-wo2tz  That's because you happen to be an (illegal) immigrant.
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  38.  @TheSterlingArcher16  Pretty much.
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  39. Democratic socialism in practice.
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  40. LOL. Whatever, Chavista! I thought Venezuela didn't need the US for anything.
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  41. Chavez and Maduro.
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  42. @Tim Turko No.
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  43. Mongolia begs to differ.
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  44.  @edricdayne3571  All funded and propped by free-market capitalist money and know-how.
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  45. No. Thank you to typical socialist mismanagement and incompetence.
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  46.  @linesided  And a far-left socialist one at that.
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  47. Only those who didn't vote for Maduro.
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  48. And neither is the Venezuelan government. They ran the country into the ground in the name of ___ for all.
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  49. No. And even if Venezuela get back its gold, Maduro will just hoard it all for himself and his comrades.
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  50.  @AdamSahr-cj4kf  Not even close.
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  51. And why should they? This is a made-in-Venezuela problem.
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  52.  @hrush437  No. Venezuela doesn't need more foreign paternalism which is just assuming that it cannot do anything on its own due to being weak and incompetent. This is the kind of imperialism most people in the world resent.
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  53. A power-monger. In Venezuela's case, an America-hating far-left power-monger.
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  54. Zimbabwe thanks to Robert Mugabe. Angola thanks to Jose Eduardo Dos Santos and the MPLA. Equatorial Guinea thanks to Francisco and Teodoro Nguema. Ethiopia thanks to Mengistu Haile Mariam. Tanzania thanks to Julius Nyerere.
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  55. Not nearly as much as Venezuelan mismanagement and corruption.
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  56. <Thousands of homeless and poor but no one uses it to destabilize the usa .> Because that's an entirely domestic issue caused by domestic policy.
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  57. Exactly.
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  58. So? The rest of the world is not responsible for Venezuela's food policy which happened to include stealing land and property from the productive food-producers.
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  59. @Tim Turko LOL. Yes they did when they allowed Chavez and Maduro to seize and bankrupt much of the private sector to prop up the social programs along with nationalizing the oil industry they mismanaged and corrupted to hell.
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  60. Thank you Maduro and Chavez for killing off private enterprise and whatever prosperity you had.
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  61. Yes blame Maduro.
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  62. Look no further than the Black American community.
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  63. They don't. It's Maduro holding the country back.
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  64.  @georgfriedrichhandel4390  Exactly. The only difference is that Mugabe didn't spend a dime on social programs, opting to run White farmers off the land in favor of political friends and those who were in no position to farm.
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  65. Socialism doesn't believe in self-reliance. Especially the people in relation to the government.
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  66.  @mikelamatria3610  All of which coming undone by mass 3rd-world immigration, because who knew that socialism and open borders don't mix?
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  67. Because they're of little consequence as Maduro did a much better job of starving the country by himself. Why do people like to act as if Venezuela was helpless and couldn't do anything on its own?
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  68.  @beverlyledbetter9302  <And then you see how people waste food in these movies and tv shows. It's criminal!> Hardly. <Those people would kill for that stuff!> Namely in countries where it's their own government starving them to death and outside help is banned by same said government as in the case of Venezuela.
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  69. They voluntarily voted away their self-determination for social programs.
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  70. <So other countries are not free to conduct trade and operations with Venezuela > Russia, Iran, China and Cuba don't seem to have any problem doing business with Venezuela.
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  71. How are the businesses withholding food when the government seized them? The only blockade going on is that of Maduro against the entrepreneurs and investors that made the country prosperous in the first place.
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  72. @Tim Turko Not really.
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  73. What are you waiting for?
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  74.  @305floridian  Nothing.
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  75. Hardly. The Venezuelan government killed off the economy in the name of "social justice."
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  76. Evo Morales ruled Bolivia, not Peru. Don't forget Guyana under Jagan and Burnham (who the US actually backed) and Suriname under Bouterse.
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  77. Well, because they voted for it.
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  78. Not really as most of them voted for Maduro.
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  79. They voted away their self-determination for free stuff from the government.
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  80. Something you don't do, regurgitating Chavista propaganda.
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  81. The Chavista regime is even more unjust.
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  82. No. Thank the Venezuelan government. This is what happens when bureaucrats, OOPS! I mean workers own the means of production.
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  83. Starving because of Maduro.
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  84. You mean the Chavistas?
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  85. Hardly. Venezuela's all-out war on private enterprise did most of the real damage.
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  86. Not really. Maduro is Cuba and China's puppet.
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  87. Just look at the Black community.
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  88. Only after Nyerere had the decency to step aside after bankrupting the country.
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  89. Well, this is what they voted for. Free stuff from the government >>>>>>>>>>> self-sufficiency.
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  90. Nope. Just socialism running its natural course.
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