{"id":27114,"date":"2015-12-07T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27114"},"modified":"2015-12-07T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:48:02","slug":"socialism-can-be-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27114","title":{"rendered":"Socialism Can Be Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/2015\/12\/07\/venezuela-turns-the-page-after-16-years-of-21st-century-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Security Policy<\/a> is reporting today that the voters of Venezuela allocated 99 out of 167 seats to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Unity Roundtable\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Unity_Roundtable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Democratic Unity Roundtable<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/unidadvenezuela.org\/\">MUD<\/a>) and the governing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Socialist Party of Venezuela\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psuv.org.ve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">United Socialist Party of Venezuela<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psuv.org.ve\/\">PSUV<\/a>) garnered 46 seats, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/article48313030.html\">remaining<\/a> 22 seats still to be adjudicated. This vote represents the end of the socialist regime in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Founding organizations such as the Bolivarian Alliance of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Americas\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=19.0,-96.0&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=19.0,-96.0 (Americas)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">the Americas<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/albainfo.org\/what-is-the-alba\/\">(ALBA<\/a>), the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Union of South American Nations\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_of_South_American_Nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Union of South American Nations<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unasursg.org\/en\">UNASUR<\/a>), the government propaganda satellite channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/\">Telesur<\/a>, as well as sponsoring economic partnerships like the Caribbean Petroleum consortium <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrocaribe.org\/\">(PETROCARIBE<\/a>), the Chavez administration curried favor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/2015\/03\/16\/latin-american-backlash-to-u-s-sanctions-on-venezuela\/\">goodwill<\/a> throughout Latin America, as other left-leaning governments were elected in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>These institutions were meant to supplant the International Government Organizations regime which has been in place since the end of WWII and led by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Nations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">United Nations<\/a> and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Organization of American States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8929138,-77.0403734&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8929138,-77.0403734 (Organization%20of%20American%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Organization of American States<\/a>. \u00a0In fact, Chavez had a very contentious relationship with both bodies, routinely denouncing the UN as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-20712033\">stooge of imperialism<\/a>\u201d and the OAS as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-12147834\">shameful<\/a>\u201d organization every time his authoritarian and undemocratic actions were criticized.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the beginning of a new day in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The MUD now has its work cut out for them. The first order of business is to determine exactly how many deputies will take their seats in the new session on January 5<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 A super majority of 110 is needed to enact meaningful reforms, especially as the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Venezuela\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=10.5,-66.9666666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=10.5,-66.9666666667 (Venezuela)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Venezuelan<\/a> economy has been in a death spiral due to gross <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2015\/10\/22\/US-investigating-Venezuelan-state-owned-oil-company\/3341445502166\/\">mismanagement<\/a> combined with the decline in oil prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the voters of Venezuela for voting for freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Security Policy is reporting today that the voters of Venezuela allocated 99 out of 167 seats to the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) and the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) garnered 46 seats, with the remaining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9590,9591,223,285,306],"class_list":["post-27114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-organization-of-american-states","tag-union-of-south-american-nations","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27115,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27114\/revisions\/27115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}