Life in Venezuela continues to be turbulent. President Maduro won a small majority in elections last Sunday. His last-minute attacks on the opposition seem to have paid off at the polls. Maduro used the state-controlled media to paint the economic woes of his country as the result of an economic war waged by the United States against Venezuela.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/12/venezuela
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/12/venezuelas-local-elections
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/us-venezuela-election-idUSBRE9B707720131209
And this is what 50 + per cent inflation does to your economy…http://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/world-s-most-expensive-cities-for-foreign-workers-014251972.html
This is a late addition to the post– updated June 9, 2014…which shows how entrepreneurial Venezuelans would be if government restrictions and crazy economic policies would allow them…http://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-prostitutes-making-killing-doubling-155947318.html
This is yet another update — February 2015…things continue to get more desperate in Venezuela:
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/soviet-humor-protest-venezuela
Brinn is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a retired lieutenant colonel. He now spends his time writing and skiing in the mountains of northern New Mexico with his wife and three sons.
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