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Maduro: Venezuela was a colony
of the gringo oil multinationals
El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Posted By:PageTurner, 3/21/2013 5:49:22 PM
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| The acting president and candidate for the April 14 elections for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Nicolás Maduro, said that "Venezuela, for nearly a century, was a colony of the gringo oil multinationals." He added that the country was looted by companies and by the bourgeoisie that "stole the money" from oil revenues. During an inspection of the Orinoco Oil Belt in Monagas state, east Venezuela, Maduro said that corporations "used to exploit workers and discriminated against Venezuelans." In this regard, he said he was confident that workers would defend the oil sector
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Comments:
Clownwatch. Boy does he bring up some hoary cliches.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
uno_thatguy, 3/21/2013 6:20:00 PM (No. 9237464)
Then give us our stuff back and trash the technology we loaned you, dimwit!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
provide, 3/21/2013 6:24:18 PM (No. 9237470)
I guess being a colony for Chinese oil companies is laudable.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 3/21/2013 6:33:56 PM (No. 9237487)
Sounds like he is stealing rhetoric from Obama.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Halfvast Conspirator, 3/21/2013 6:36:27 PM (No. 9237492)
The new Secretary of Energy for Barry -- he has a Nobel prize in Economics, right? I mean with insightful analysis like that...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chicodon, 3/21/2013 6:47:56 PM (No. 9237504)
I was afraid he´d be another left wing tin pot dictator. Whew, I guess we dodged a bullet there.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
krause, 3/21/2013 7:07:18 PM (No. 9237532)
The bogeyman card played again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono, 3/21/2013 8:21:02 PM (No. 9237617)
Venezuela was unable to produce oil within their territory without the "gringo oil multinationals". Shell, et al, should sue Venezuela for the return of tools and infrastructural elements the company created to make those fields productive.
If Venezuela resents those gringos´ oppressive help so much, they can damn-well make the gringos take their stuff home with them...
(Yeah, yeah... and Obama can damn-well honor our country´s own Constitution, too. But those are both far-fetched scenarios.)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 3/21/2013 11:13:50 PM (No. 9237805)
"It takes a gringo to raise a barrel."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 3/21/2013 11:46:21 PM (No. 9237860)
But it was OK for Hugo Chavez to loot the national treasury of $2 Billion while claiming to be a champion of the poor? If that isn´t exploiting the "workers" what is? All Socialists are criminals ie legal thieves.
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VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis on Monday hailed Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher for her “promotion of freedom” and said he was “saddened” by her passing. The Argentine pope “recalls with appreciation the Christian values which underpinned her commitment to public service and to the promotion of freedom among the family of nations,” a condolence note read.
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