May 4, 2018 By Monica Showalter
Venezuela's odious dictator, former bus driver Nicolás Maduro, is already in hot water internationally for rigging his country's election when the phony snap vote is to be held on May 20. He rigged the thing first by making it a snap election not all parties were prepared for, then by forbidding all of Venezuela's credible opposition leaders to run, and then by leaving just one puppet guy, a former Chavista named Henri Falcón, to be the placeholder opposition candidate to create the appearance of a race. Apparently, even that's a problem. Thursday, he bellowed that he'd be prepared to take up arms to make "revolución" if Falcón were to have the temerity to win. The Miami Herald's estimable Jim Wyss reports:..........It's all phony stuff, the old "whip up the masses for la revolución strategy, in a ridiculous tinpot bid to take their minds off the country's 18,000% inflation and shortage-plagued and impoverished socialist economy. Ah, la revolución and the "how beautiful is my flag" schtick, as Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Carlos Montaner, and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza explained in their famous book about such creeps, called the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot. They have Maduro's number............. Read more
Venezuela's odious dictator, former bus driver Nicolás Maduro, is already in hot water internationally for rigging his country's election when the phony snap vote is to be held on May 20. He rigged the thing first by making it a snap election not all parties were prepared for, then by forbidding all of Venezuela's credible opposition leaders to run, and then by leaving just one puppet guy, a former Chavista named Henri Falcón, to be the placeholder opposition candidate to create the appearance of a race. Apparently, even that's a problem. Thursday, he bellowed that he'd be prepared to take up arms to make "revolución" if Falcón were to have the temerity to win. The Miami Herald's estimable Jim Wyss reports:..........It's all phony stuff, the old "whip up the masses for la revolución strategy, in a ridiculous tinpot bid to take their minds off the country's 18,000% inflation and shortage-plagued and impoverished socialist economy. Ah, la revolución and the "how beautiful is my flag" schtick, as Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Carlos Montaner, and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza explained in their famous book about such creeps, called the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot. They have Maduro's number............. Read more
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