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Zorro (4,418 posts)Venezuela jails 100 "bourgeois" businessmen in crackdownSource: ReutersVenezuela's socialist governmenthas arrested more than 100 "bourgeois" businessmen in acrackdown on alleged price-gouging at hundreds of shops andcompanies since the weekend, President Nicolas Maduro said onThursday."They are barbaric, these capitalist parasites!" Madurothundered in the latest of his lengthy daily speeches. "We havemore than 100 of the bourgeoisie behind bars at the moment."The successor to the late Hugo Chavez also said hisgovernment was preparing a law to limit Venezuelan businesses'profits to between 15 percent and 30 percent.Officials say unscrupulous companies have been hiking pricesof electronics and other goods more than 1,000 percent. Criticssay failed socialist economic policies and restricted access toforeign currency are behind Venezuela's runaway inflation.Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-jails-100-bourgeois-businessmen-023227049.html
Ranchemp. (873 posts)1. Uh oh.Expect the usual suspects to chime in on how this is the fault of U.S. imperialism and that Maduro and his Merry Band of Thugs has no choice but to confront the evil empire that is the U.S. and how this is the result of the U.S. meddling in Chile in the 70's.
Star Member a la izquierda (8,230 posts)18. So you're okay with the Us having meddled in Chile?Your cute little avatar makes me think you're one of my thick skulled students who chuckled their way through my lecture on the Guatemalan Civil War.Funny, that.
Ranchemp. (873 posts)28. My Angels avatar makes you think like that?I guess I struck a nerve, didn't I?Looks more and more like Maduro and his Merry Band of Thugs are becoming tin pot dictators.Don't bother replying, I'm not taking it back nor are you going to change my mind about the corruption and criminal acts of the Ven. govt.
Star Member a la izquierda (8,230 posts)55. No, your ROFL smilie.And aw, I has a sad that you don't want to discuss. On a discussion board.You'll last long if you continually get your panties in a wad.
<<<was fine with the U.S. meddling in Chile, to keep it from slipping into a totalitarian socialist state.Whatever it took, was fine with.