Venezuela Seizes Medicine from Catholic Charity, Skips Talks with Opposition as Starving Residents Flee Country in Boats
Socialist Venezuela may not outlast Fidel Castro by much.
Socialist Venezuela may not outlast Fidel Castro by much.
How cryptocurrency is turning socialism against itself
Government responds to inflationary pressure by contributing to it.
Maduro-aligned election board delays referendum until 2017, virtually guaranteeing socialist rule until 2019.
2008 Cato Institute Milton Friedman Prize winner Yon Goicoechea is among the arrested.
Maduro's government claims the lines are a calculated political attempt to stir up "anxiety."
Can be ordered to work in fields for up to 60 days or longer to provide food for starving country.
Planning a recovery is tough in a country where an awful lot of guys with guns aren't ready to admit that socialism has failed again.
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
Self-induced catastrophe
President Maduro says images of the horror his country has become are part of a conspiracy against his government.
The story of Chile's success starts in the mid-1970s, when Chile's military government abandoned socialism and started to implement economic reforms.
Vigilante violence plagues the streets, citizens are hunting dogs and cats for food, but the president insists Bolivarian socialism will save the day.
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Instapundit Glenn Reynolds points to the real-time economics lessons coming out of Venezuela...
Bolivarian socialism apparently means financing things like lousy race-car drivers while the people lack medicine, food, and toilet paper.
For the Vermont senator who favors press censorship and sees bread lines as evidence of success, the Bolivarian regime would seem to embody his ideals.
But it's more just a desperately poor nation suffering from socialist mismanagement and oppression.
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Executive order declaring Venezuela an extraordinary threat could pave the way for wider sanctions.
China's foreign minister says he hopes the U.S. and Venezuela can deal with their issues with mutual respect and non-interference.
A member of the opposition, the Venezuelan mayor has been a target of a ruling party that wants a seat it created back.
Diosdado Cabello alleged to be leader of a cartel based in the Venezuelan military.
They should probably enjoy that cheap gas while they can get it.
An increasingly dire economic situation caused by Venezuela's socialist government is leading to renewed protests
The U.S. isn't coming to the rescue, so they had better be able to defend themselves.
At least this strife-torn country is closer to home, though no easier for outsiders to fix.
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