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Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Juan Requesens after being bloodied by a Maduro supporter (AP)

A march on Monday by members of Venezuelas National Assembly who were opposed to president Nicols Maduros Socialist government was met by men with sticks and rocks by Socialist supporters.

On Tuesday, Venezuelan police attacked protesters with tear gas, water cannons, and pepper spray. The clashes began after the authorities closed subway stations, set up checkpoints and cordoned off a square where opponents had planned their latest protest against the Socialist government and a crippling economic crisis.

The protests were triggered by a decision last week by the Maduro-controlled Supreme Court to effectively dissolve the National Assembly and take over its legislative powers, effectively making Maduro a dictator.

Maduro is in control of the presidency, the army, the media, and the courts. The National Assembly was the only body that expressed any opposition to Maduro. Maduro has repeatedly used the courts to reverse any legislative decisions that he did not like, but this time he was going to eliminate the legislative branch completely.

Maduro has been jailing bakers because there is a bread shortage, and has been jailing factory workers because there is shortage of milk, rice, flour, ketchup, diapers, and toilet paper. It seemed that Maduro could get away with anything. So it was to everyones surprise that Maduros latest move generated worldwide outrage, even from some normally compliant mainstream media sources. Even Maduros attorney general Luisa Ortega Diaz was opposed to the latest move.

The international opposition caused Venezuelas Supreme Court to reverse the decision on Saturday, but the crisis has continued because it triggered violence in the streets. There were thousands of people on both sides, pro- and anti-Maduro, in a situation where anger is increasing between the haves supporting Maduro and the have-nots opposed to Maduro. Reuters and Washington Post and Venezuelanalysis

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The Organization of American States (OAS) approved on Monday overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Venezuela restore full constitutional authority to the National Assembly.

However, that decision came at the end of two days of extraordinary brinksmanship.

On April 1, Bolivia assumed the rotating Pro Tempore presidency of the OAS. A meeting had been previously scheduled to discuss the Venezuela situation, but Bolivia is one of the two closest allies to Venezuelas Socialist government, the other one being Ecuador. So the first action taken by the Bolivian representative was to cancel the meeting.

This infuriated other OAS members, led by Costa Rica and Mexico, so they conducted what is being called an institutional coup, and went ahead with the cancelled meeting. Bolivia protested the move and subsequently walked out of the meeting, joined by Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador.

There were 21 remaining countries at the meeting, and 17 nations approved the resolution, with four abstentions: Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Belize and El Salvador.

According to the text of the resolution:

EXPRESSING our grave concern regarding the unconstitutional alteration of the democratic order in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and our continuous support for dialogue and negotiation to lead to a peaceful restoration of democratic order,

[The OAS] DECLARES that: The decisions of the Supreme Court of Venezuela to suspend the powers of the National Assembly and to arrogate them to itself are inconsistent with democratic practice and constitute an alteration of the constitutional order of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Notwithstanding the recent revision of some elements of these decisions, it is essential that the Government of Venezuela ensures the full restoration of democratic order.

Pary Rodriguez, Bolivias OAS representative, said that the resolution is totally illegal and arbitrary and dont correspond to the norms of international law. Latin American Herald Tribune and Panama Post and TeleSur

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In a lengthy article that doesnt anywhere contain any form of the world Socialism, the New York Times blamed Venezuelas massive economic crisis on populism, apparently to take a swipe at Donald Trump.

According to the article:

When Hugo Chvez took power in Venezuela nearly 20 years ago, the leftist populism he championed was supposed to save democracy. Instead, it has led to democracys implosion in the country, marked this past week by an attack on the independence of its Legislature.

Venezuelas fate stands as a warning: Populism is a path that, at its outset, can look and feel democratic. But, followed to its logical conclusion, it can lead to democratic backsliding or even outright authoritarianism.

This is really laughable. I remember, years ago, when I really admired the NY Times, but since the 1980s it has moved progressively leftist, and today no longer reports news.

Socialism has led to disaster every time it has been tried. There have been oceans of blood spilled in the name of Socialism in countries like the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and China. In fact, Socialism has been such a disaster that every country has been forced to abandon it, including the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, East Germany, and so forth. North Korea has not abandoned it, and that whole country is a disaster. Venezuela is headed the same way.

How stupid to you have to be to believe in Socialism when it has failed spectacularly every time it has been tried, and has never been successful not even once?

Actually, as Ive written several times in the past, it is pretty easy to prove mathematically that Socialism always collapses.

In 1991, I visited a huge computer show in Hanover, Germany. It was a special occasion because the Berlin Wall had just fallen, and East Germans were visiting the show for the first time. Theyre in a state of shock, I was told. Theyre still using punched card equipment from the 1950s. Why had Communist East Germany gotten stuck in the 1950s?

The same with Cuba, which is still using automobiles from the 1950s.

In medieval times, a feudal estate with a couple of hundred tenants could be run on a Socialist basis, if the feudal lord desired. All hed need is one or two regulators to make sure that all prices were fixed and all transactions follow the law.

But as the population grows exponentially, the number of transactions grows exponentially faster, and so the number of regulators needed becomes a larger and larger percentage of the population. By the time you have a country with millions of people, every person would have to be a regulator to make it work, and obviously thats impossible. So thats why countries like East Germany, North Korea, Russia and Cuba all got stuck in the 1950s until they gave up Socialism. NY Times and News Busters

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