Venezuela - The Regime Change that failed
Maduro Is More Powerful Than Ever as Venezuela Collapses

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Amateur. I was bought up in the age of The School of the Americas and Operation Condor.

Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo and the Generals
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte and the Generals
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena and the Generals
Hugo Banzer Suárez and the Generals
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda and the Generals
Juan Velasco Alvarado and the Generals
Admiral Alfredo Poveda and the Generals
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio and the Colonels
Take your pick from a long line in Brazil, and the Generals

I forget, there must be a couple of other Latin American nations...

Honduras
Panama

Flock me, Nemo - and we haven't even hit El Salvador and Nicaragua.

See what i mean about Muduro and the snowflake socialists - a pimple faced amateur compare with the Generals and their friends.

Paying taxes for schools, roads and the fire brigade is socialism, though. Or are you using the free market to offer contracts for people to put out the flames?

..and we all know that's just code for Marxist Democrats

cptrelentless wrote:Paying taxes for schools, roads and the fire brigade is socialism, though. Or are you using the free market to offer contracts for people to put out the flames?

New York City tried that in the 1800s or so. Turned out the fight fighters would set fires in order to be called out to put them out (and get paid). Competing fire companies would engage in fights for the right to put out the fire as the building burned down.

Many roads are toll roads in the US. Choose to pay the toll or find a different route.

Parents can choose to put their kids in public school, private school, or home school in the US.

The key is choice. Capitalism is all about choice. Socialism is no choice.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. People’s Democracy of (China, Korea), etc. advancing the socialist struggle.