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Maracaibo is turning out to be the epicenter of Venezuelan collapse
Yet the glowing depictions of socialism by AOC will prove more convincing to the viewer. Maracaibo is in a galaxy far, far away.
What's really interesting about reports out of Maracaibo is the Venezuelan state appears to have essentially disintegrated. No effort to stop the looting, no ability to return what's now nearly a 100 hour outage.
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Crimes used to be committed by individuals. Now they are committed by tribes. After each shooting, bombing, knifing the question is never "who did it?" but only "which side did it?"
Something is wrong. The question is how it got that way.
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The two big projects of the 21st century, multiculturalism and climate change, are off to a rocky start.
Mandatory repentance and brotherhood to save humanity. Mandatory poverty to save the planet. It sounds good but there's something not quite right about it.
Maybe it's the fact that an enormous bureaucracy is necessary to implement both.
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Who traffics in 'cruelty'? Cuban doctors were forced to dole out medicine for political purposes.

nytimes.com/2019/03/17/wor…
16 members of Cuba’s medical missions to Venezuela — a signature element of relations between the two countries — described a system of deliberate political manipulation in which their services were wielded to secure votes for the governing Socialist Party, often through coercion
The Cuban doctors said they were ordered to go door-to-door in impoverished neighborhoods, offering medicine and warning residents that they would be cut off from medical services if they did not vote for Mr. Maduro or his candidates.
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