From Russia Today:
Venezuela's Congress accuses President Maduro of staging ‘coup’ by axing recall referendum
Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly has declared at an emergency session that “President Maduro’s regime” staged a coup by blocking a referendum on Maduro’s recall. The parliamentary meeting was briefly interrupted by pro-government supporters.
The lawmakers passed a resolution announcing a "break of the constitutional order and the existence of a coup d'etat committed by the Nicolas Maduro regime," AFP reported.
On October 20, the Venezuelan National Election Assembly announced the blocking of the preparations of a recall referendum for the current president.
The emergency meeting on Sunday was briefly interrupted after alleged pro-government activists rushed into the session, shouting “The Assembly will fall.”
Reuters reports that several people were injured in the standoff, before the intruders were forced out.
End game of socialism. I hope that the citizens do not suffer and that they get some wise leaders in office. This is going to take more than ten years to recover and it will be hard for everyone but my heart goes out to the poor people who were deluded by the free government stuff for so long - this is a heady intoxicant but it never lasts for any length of time. The money always runs out.
It works great if you have a lot of national income and a smallish population (scandinavian countries) and it worked for a while in Venezuela while oil prices were abnormally high but new technologies brought the prices down low and Venezuela's market crashed. Had Chavez and Maduro been investing in infrastructure instead of bread and circuses, Venezuela would be in fine shape. Spending their national income on free government stuff? Not so much.
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