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    You've Said so much Truth about the question . Do I Have Your Permission To Follow You?? You May Wish To Tag Along With My Posts As Well.

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    You're free to follow brother, am happy you appreciate the response

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    Thank you. May your words be true. He has secured his seat thanks to the corruption of the military.

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    As a Venezuelan who has witnessed 20 years of pre-Chavez times and 20 years of red revolution, I will make some respectful observations:

    -Maduro may very well remain in power until he dies, like Chavez did,but not because the opposition lacks an alternative programs (such programs exist and have been presented to voters in past elections), or because he has popular support (I wonder where you got that from).

    -If what demerits the opposition's plan is the enphasis on privatization, deregularization and elimination of the missions, my question is what is the possitive balance of doing the opposite. If what the government has done for 20 years now were any good, Venezuela wuld not have the highest inflation in the planet, the amount of poor, or the amount of exiles it has now. The government asumed control of the main companies (water, telephones, electricity, oil, metals, etc etc), have you researched how well they are doing? They are bankrupt.

    -The missions far from helping the poor (not sure what's your definition of helping is) have ruined the economy and kept the poor in a condition of indigence. The middle class disappeared, there are people in the streets eating garbage (not the typical mentally deranged hobos, regular people who went from poor to totally destitute). With inflation this high (estimated at 1 million% at by year's end) there is no amount of money those mission can give that will represent any significant help.

    I don't know if there is any other place in the world where people do not want to work and earn enough to cover their basic needs, but wait patiently for a government to give them crumbs. This is the sort of socialism the chavismo has implemented. Does it look any good? Good enough to people to like it and want it to stay?

    Three words that keep Maduro in power: control (of all branches og government), weapons, and (people's) fear.

    Enough to keep any leader in office until death do them part. Public acceptance is a different thing, and can be easily measured. I have done my polling more than once. Walking in the streets, asking random people. More than 70% reject chavez's/maduro's socialism.

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    Thanks for your interesting answer..I respect the will of peoples to self-determination but far from external dictates that only see their colonial interests. Long live to the Venezuelan people and to Venezuela .. Peace

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    On that we agree. Unfortunately, some local leaders, exploiting that fear to the colonial dictates become their own neo-colonial power. They become the personification of the rapacious empire they teach people to fear.

    Worse yet, they present some empires as evil, while others are presented as benevolent. There is no difference between the USA, France, or Great Britain and China, Russia, Iran, Turkey or Syria when it comes to economic interest and exploitation. Ideology is just the façade and it is very sad when political groups in a historically exploited culture serve the purpose of the colonial powers (right or left).

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