âFellow citizens! I blush to say this: Independence is the only benefit we have acquired, to the detriment of all the rest.â
The freedom to make your own mistakes. More beneficial to some countries than to others.
Well tomorrow they have elections. Maybe afterwards they will release the passports they have been holding so Venezuelans abroad canât vote. Anyways, since the elections are rigged, the point of such actions is moot. More than socialism, it is social revenge from the ones that had nothing towards the ones that used to ride high on the hog.
Problem solved!
My God, why has anyone thought of that before??? Someone must tell Corbyn! It will work great for the next elections!
Do they provide free pens to the masses to cross them out on the bills?
I think the only free shit they can afford at this point is the literal kind.
A ringing endorsement for holding Venezuelan currency!
âHow much did you have yesterday?â
â2,500,000 bolivars!â
âHow much do you have today?â
â25 bolivarsâ
The problem is that there are two worlds, maybe 3, in the same space. People still living the luxury life, people who benefit from the mess ⌠and the starving masses.
Now both Nicaragua and Venezuela are locked by the same press, the same discourse. Example: Madame first lady said there are no dead, they suicides to make the government look badâŚsigh.
Wow, theyâre drowning in debt, their currency isnât as strong as it used to be, and what money they do have, theyâre planning to redistribute to the peasants because they still, kind of, support the government.
Oh, wait â thatâs the US under Trump. 
Donât call them peasants to their faces, or youâll be facing the pitchforks.
(I wonder how they feel about the ethanol thingy?)
Did they fake all those men in uniform running scared?
If he had to fake it, he was in dire straits. If it was real, heâs in dire straits now.
Yes, itâs a shithole country, and Merduro is the lead shit.
But how do they pay their taxes and fees?
maybe thatâs the point 
Interesting article. As you suggested, it kinda puts a nail in the theory that fiat currency attains it value because itâs the only instrument that can be used to pay taxes.
The Grauniad has a late sea change in its editorial position. Maybe waiting until people are starving before admitting it was wrong?
A modified limited admission of error. A day late and a dollar short.
The Chavez cheerleaders should hang their heads in shame, but theyâre more likely to back-peddle.
corbyn and friends try to avoid the topic; now that itâs impossible to use venezuela as a shining example of socialism while their people dig for food in rubbish bins alongside homeless dogs, you wonât find many corbyn fans pointing their fingers at venezuela and saying:âsee??? it can be done, it works!!!â.
Just wait until maduro gets killed or thereâs a coup, and venezuela will be added to the ever expanding list of:âbyâŚbyâŚbutâŚit wasnât real socialism / communismâ and people will blame the Us, Putin, aliens, evil capitalists etc etc for its failure.