Steps taken by Hugo Chavez to turn Venezuela socialist are being repeated in the United States, a Venezuelan immigrant told the Washington County Republican Women at their February meeting at the Springdale Country Club.
Now a U.S. citizen, she recently visited her native country. Given the socialist breakdown, making the trip took two days as opposed to the 3-hour direct flight from Miami in pre-Chavez days.
She told of long supermarket lines, people walking to work for lack of public transit, no schools, and nothing for the poorest people.
Health care cratered with the importation of Cuban doctors less educated than Venezuelan physicians who could not compete due to lower fees charged by the Cubans.
People opposed to the government lose their jobs, she said, and there are large factories that are idle, throwing people out of work.
She demonstrated that with no natural gas, some cooking is done with firewood in a cut-open 50-gallon drum. Access to water for one of her relatives is by way of a delivery every two weeks.
She outlined seven strategies for the socialist takeover in Venezuela, strategies she said are advancing in the U.S.: dividing the people; canceling businesses; taking control of the healthcare system, destroying values along with undercutting respect for police, democracy and religion; controlling the education system; gutting the country’s economy, and promoting ingratitude along with deletion of the nation’s history.
Like so many naturalized citizens, she is passionate about her love for America and gave to meeting attendees booklet-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution.
Here’s a great video explaining all of the imperial propaganda points brought up in this post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fV-C1Ag5sI
I lived in Venezuela for over a year, working at the U.S. Embassy there until Maduro, the illegitimate regime head, kicked us out. Yes, there is a risk of repeating here what happened in Venezuela, but the risk comes in the form of lies told by populist so-called leaders such as our 45th U.S. President, and the polarization, division, and distrust in our institutions those repeated lies have generated in our country. Don’t let it happen. Please.