A small business owner, before and after the Venezuelan crisis
6 years ago by yankeedoodle · 1003 Likes · 9 comments · Popular
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mrscollector
· 6 years ago
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That breaks my heart look at him not only is his shop almost completely barr but he has lost weight and obviously still wearing clothes from before he lost the weight so he probably can't afford new clothes that fit or food for his family. You know if he is a good man he probably makes sure his family gets more food than him. Things like this is why Americans try to help other countries. Yes we do need to help our own but let me ask you this has American ever asked a different country to help their homeless or poor. Only during major disasters have we ever asked for other countries help.
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· 6 years ago
Success of communism...
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chicken_nugget
· 6 years ago
I’m totally not dissing ur point I agree but I’m just curious how is the US supposed to help save their economy it’s difficult to work with a dictator much less take him out of power. Yea we can send them supplies but that’s kind of a bandaid on a broken bone. Their money is heavily inflated throwing money at them will literally make the problem worse.
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cryoenthusiast
· 6 years ago
The U.S. had done Operation Condor. Destabilizing governments and implementing totalitarians in South America to "prevent the growth of communism". Any help will be met with suspicion. The history of the U.S. giving aid to governments always had a catch. Panama was given aid to split off from Colombia, but in turn lost one of the largest sources of wealth at the time, the Panama Canal. This aid can be completely altruistic but given the history it'll be a diplomatic nightmare.
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guest
· 6 years ago
If you guys think communism did this think again. think oil and America preventing Venezuela from doing business. Facts outchea not your shitty outdated red scare crap.
felman87
· 6 years ago
To be fair, being a petrol-state with few other exports didn't do Venezuela any favors either. Once the price of oil fell, the country fell with it. Sure, the more socialistic aspects and rampant corruption also had some effect, in essence making the crisis worse, but to say the only lesson to learn from this is "no socialism" is short-sighted. A diverse economy is critical. Like we learn as children, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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cryoenthusiast
· 6 years ago
No need to be rude guest.
guest
· 6 years ago
Corruption and “communism” sold as the savior did this. Check out the list of the richest people in the world, find a bunch of “communist leaders” from Venezuela on that list. Gave the country’s riches, potential and future away and now they can’t get out of the hole they’ve dug themselves into.
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· 6 years ago
He looks pretty indifferent in both
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