#Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
Socialism Has Created a Humanitarian Disaster in Venezuela | Cato Institute
., #Corruption/Nepotism, #Orwellian world (Mass control), #Requisition of Private Properties
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
This article appeared on City A.M on February 29, 2016. Venezuela’s accelerating economic meltdown is rapidly turning into a full-fledged humanitarian crisis. For too many in that country, the pervasive shortages of food, medicine, electricity, and other basic goods are making everyday life a nightmare. It is Venezuela’s version of the “winter of discontent,” except
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Viaggio nella città più violenta del mondo | Gli occhi della guerra
Verso le sette di sera le strade iniziano a svuotarsi. In giro incontri solo qualche taxi, le sparute pattuglie della polizia e alcune camionette dell’esercito. Benvenuti a Caracas, la città più pericolosa del mondo (le recenti statistiche parlano di 120 omicidi ogni centomila abitanti, più che a Donetsk e Baghdad – la media mondiale è Read More
Favelas di sangue | Gli occhi della guerra
#Protezione del crimine, #Social expenditures (useless)
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
I proiettili traccianti bucano l’aria lasciando dietro di loro scie luminose. I soldati li osservano e aggiustano il tiro: sono uno strumento fondamentale per una guerra che si combatte a piedi nudi e senza nessun altro equipaggiamento. I trafficanti di droga nelle favelas di Rio de Janeiro non hanno visori notturni. Si fidano del buio
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Blog: Don’t Cry For Argentina’s Marxists | americanthinker.com
!Totalitarism, #Conspiracy/Back-room deals, #Double Truth - Double Moral, #Requisition of Private Properties
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
Argentina’s 42-year-old Minister of the Economy and former economics professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, is best known for his research papers that “reinterpreted Keynes from a Marxist perspective.” Having elected leaders with this type of intellectual toolkit, it should not be much of a surprise that the ultra-leftist government of Argentina
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The Truth About Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is portrayed in the mainstream media as a peace-loving anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist. But what is the truth about Nelson Mandela? Correction: For decades, Mandela supported nationalization, but abandoned his plans after being informed of the negative effects they would likely engender. Freedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support Read More
Will Brazil Impeach Rousseff? | Mises Daily
A few years ago, in 2009, The Economist magazine published an issue with its front cover showing a picture of the statue of Christ the Redeemer, one of the main symbols of Brazil, taking off like a rocket. This symbolized the country’s growing economy. The title of the article read “Brazil takes off.” However, in Read More
L’implosione del socialismo sudamericano
Brasile declassato. La rivoluzione neobolivariana si sta autodistruggendo. Si chiude un ciclo politico in America Latina Roma. E’ giunta, attesa ma non per questo meno dolorosa, la mazzata di Standard & Poor’s sul Brasile, che ha declassato il debito carioca a livello “spazzatura”. L’agenzia di rating, che ha abbassato il giudizio da BBB- a BB+, Read More
Il Venezuela lancia il nuovo smartphone socialista, ma le code sono solo davanti ai supermercati
!::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, #Incompetence/#Ignorance
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
Nel Nuovo Mondo vengono prodotti smartphone socialisti prodotti da un’impresa nazionalizzata. Si tratta dei cellulari della Vtelca, acronimo di Venezolana de Telecomunicaciones, la fabbrica statale venezuelana fondata da Hugo Chávez nel 2007. Un flop inevitabile Il mondo occidentale e capitalista per l’ennesima volta ha puntato l’attenzione sul lancio del nuovo iPhone 6s, presentato dal ceo
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The Bait-and-Switch Behind Economic Populism | Mises Daily
!::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, #Demagogy/Spin Doctors, #Power monopoly, #Regulation/Tarifs/... (no opt-out)
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
Argentina will hold elections this year, and a number of provinces will be electing governors. Buenos Aires, the capital city, is holding elections for mayor, and Mauricio Macri, who is stepping down as mayor, is a favorite to become the next president. Toward the end of the year, a presidential election will be held and
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Latin America Grapples With Two Styles of Economies – WSJ
!::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, #Regulation/Tarifs/... (no opt-out), + free trade
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
Jan. 3, 2014 7:55 p.m. ET There are two Latin Americas right now. The first is a bloc of countries—including Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela—that faces the Atlantic Ocean, mistrusts globalization and gives the state a large role in the economy. The second—made up of countries that face the Pacific such as Mexico, Peru, Chile and
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Reflections on Venezuela’s “Economic Miracle” | Mises Daily
!::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, #Demagogy/Spin Doctors
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
Back in 2013, Salon took a quick break from criticizing a caricature of libertarianism to let David Sirota write an embarrassing article praising socialism in what turns out to be a fantastic case study in both the dangers of socialist economics and of course, speaking too soon. The article was titled “Hugo Chavez’s Economic Miracle”
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VENEZUELA, IN ESCLUSIVA IL DVD CHE NEL 2004 RACCONTAVA IL REGIME | Movimento Libertario
di LEONARDO FACCO Quanto sta accadendo in Venezuela, non era difficile da pronosticare. Il chavismo, accettato dalla cricca politicamente corretta del progressimo mondiale come “Socialismo del siglo XXI”, ora mostra la sua vera faccia: miseria, odio sociale, Stato interventista che ha distrutto quel che esisteva dell’apparato produttivo, scarsità di generi di prima necessità, violenza, repressione, informazione Read More
Costituzione piena, supermercati vuoti. Diritto al cibo in salsa venezuelana
#Double Truth - Double Moral, #Inequality/Redistribution argument, #Legal Plunder, #Poverty trap
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
Milano. Il presidente del Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, erede del “comandante supremo ed eterno” Hugo Chávez, ha annunciato che a luglio sarà a Roma per ricevere un riconoscimento della Fao, l’organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l’alimentazione e l’agricoltura. Come annunciato dal rappresentante della Fao in Venezuela, Marcelo Resende, Maduro sarà premiato perché il “Venezuela è un
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▶ Fight for Food in Venezuela – Food Shortage in Venezuela – YouTube
., #Inequality/Redistribution argument, #Poverty trap
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
This is the daily fight for food in Venezuela Venezuela is a country rich in natural resources but its dictatorial government had stolen and empoverished the… ▶ Fight for Food in Venezuela – Food Shortage in Venezuela – YouTube.
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Venezuela’s ‘socialist paradise’ turns into a nightmare: medical shortages claim lives as oil price collapses – Telegraph
“It’s the government who is responsible for my wife’s death, not the doctors,” Mr Perez, 63, told The Telegraph last week. “Things are very bad in this country, and they are getting worse. I feel that we are in a dictatorship. At the start I believed in Chavez, now I can’t look at him. He Read More
The Socialist Sinking Ship: Then and Now | Mises Institute
#Inequality/Redistribution argument, #Poverty trap [Socialism]
dossier: #Latin America/Africa Socialism Failure
April 20, 2015Carmen Elena Dorobăț A little late to the party, the BBC wonders at the surreal and ongoing failure of the Venezuelan regime to provide its citizens with life’s basic amenities. Goods such as flour, sugar, cooking oil, shampoo and detergent, and the oft-mentioned toilet paper are now in such short
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