Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt, So Which Country Will Be Next - Venezuela Perhaps?
As everyone is watching all the civil unrest in places like Sri Lanka, Burma, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, Algeria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan with demonstrations, protests, marches, and riots in the street forcing governments to fold or acquiesce one perhaps is not considering the full-extent of this growing global challenge which exists.
Economic conditions, inflation, unemployment, and high food prices are seriously taking their toll, but what on the other side of the globe? What about in North, Central, and South America? How about in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, and let's not forget the severe crisis brewing in Venezuela, perhaps worst of all, as Hugo Chavez works his way into a constitutional set of amendments allowing him to be a perpetually king through hijacked pretend and manipulated elections, while the nations continues to collapse economically.
Indeed, recently there was an interesting presentation which actually considered such challenges happening in the world, and where else such civil unrest was likely to occur next.
The presentation was by the Hudson Institute in Washington DC.
Titled; "Social Unrest and Political Instability in Venezuela" (February 9, 2011) at the Hudson Institute's Center for Latin American Studies and the Institute for Foreign Policy.
Consider if you will that the socialist leader Hugo Chavez has destroyed the middle class, all in promises of bringing up the poor masses.
Only he's made it worse with two major currency downward adjustments, nationalizing of foreign businesses and assets, and confiscation of land, opposition media, and oil and food production.
The efficiency of the Venezuelan economy has been stopped cold, and rather than Chavez adopting the proper economic fixes and re-introducing a more free-market approach, he continues to shore up the challenges by creating new socialist programs.
Today, Venezuelans are at a flash point, one which has come a lot faster than the 30-years of less-than-perfect economic times in Egypt.
Will the people of Venezuela over throw their leader too? Is Venezuela next on the list of potential calamities? And what might that do to the stability of South America? Will Venezuela tighten down the locks on its people as North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and other nations have done, or will the people rise up and take arms.
So far, all minor protests have been culled and the media has literally been taken over.
But if you want my assessment, I'd say something like this could happen in Venezuela at any time.
Please consider all this.
Economic conditions, inflation, unemployment, and high food prices are seriously taking their toll, but what on the other side of the globe? What about in North, Central, and South America? How about in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, and let's not forget the severe crisis brewing in Venezuela, perhaps worst of all, as Hugo Chavez works his way into a constitutional set of amendments allowing him to be a perpetually king through hijacked pretend and manipulated elections, while the nations continues to collapse economically.
Indeed, recently there was an interesting presentation which actually considered such challenges happening in the world, and where else such civil unrest was likely to occur next.
The presentation was by the Hudson Institute in Washington DC.
Titled; "Social Unrest and Political Instability in Venezuela" (February 9, 2011) at the Hudson Institute's Center for Latin American Studies and the Institute for Foreign Policy.
Consider if you will that the socialist leader Hugo Chavez has destroyed the middle class, all in promises of bringing up the poor masses.
Only he's made it worse with two major currency downward adjustments, nationalizing of foreign businesses and assets, and confiscation of land, opposition media, and oil and food production.
The efficiency of the Venezuelan economy has been stopped cold, and rather than Chavez adopting the proper economic fixes and re-introducing a more free-market approach, he continues to shore up the challenges by creating new socialist programs.
Today, Venezuelans are at a flash point, one which has come a lot faster than the 30-years of less-than-perfect economic times in Egypt.
Will the people of Venezuela over throw their leader too? Is Venezuela next on the list of potential calamities? And what might that do to the stability of South America? Will Venezuela tighten down the locks on its people as North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and other nations have done, or will the people rise up and take arms.
So far, all minor protests have been culled and the media has literally been taken over.
But if you want my assessment, I'd say something like this could happen in Venezuela at any time.
Please consider all this.
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