Jaws and Boomer are athletes I guess? And Lingo translates, writes poems, other? The others seem fairly self-explanatory. I guess the dog rides a motorcycle.
8 million people have fled the country and likely won’t come back. More said they would leave if Maduro won. That kind of brain drain can’t be good.
On the flip side the US relieved sanctions as part of the deal to hold this election. So if VZ can convince the US the elections were legit, maybe they can keep improving relations and the US will stop screwing them.
may not reflect the current conditions. Right now Argentina has the highest inflation in the world at 271%. Syria is 2nd with 140%. Turkey is 3rd with 72%.
“forces” or making people choose a specific thing that you want them to chose, is a pretty standard magic trick. Obv its been improved upon/changed over the last hundreds of years, but the basic premise has always been the same.
Yeah but you can still go visit Argentina and you’d never know it. Venezuela is by all accounts a crime-ridden basket case. It was a no-go zone in 2018. Colombia closed off the border with Venezuela for a few years. It’s a little better now, but still a mess.
This after being one of the richest countries in South America for a long time.
How much of that is Chavez->Maduro sucking and how much is because of US sanctions is hard to know.