This is just propaganda with no valid research and comes to silly conclusions, like "Protests have been raging since mid-February, and it stands to reason that they will persist for months to come" why? because you say so?
The article thoroughly fails to mention the huge defeat at the voting booths of the opposition only a few months ago, which the opposition was so sure would win called them "a referendum on Maduro’s presidency" but instead lost badly giving more counties to the socialists.
The article fails to note the long pattern used by the Cabal of financiers who use proxy governments to do its dirty work, especially the US and the EU, by fomenting debt in countries like Ukraine, Mexico, Indonesia, Chile, etc. in order to destabilize them and then come with the "solution" using the IMF to transfer the people’s wealth in the form of PUBLIC ownership to the corporate capitalists ownership.
It is all well explained and documented in John Perkins book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. But it seems the author Zachary Fillingham has no knowledge or has chosen to disregard it.
Chile was first destabilized using millions of dollars paying truckers NOT to deliver merchandise and bring the economy to a halt in order to turn the voters against their government. In Venezuela a similar plan is being put into effect.
Because the majority of Venezuelans are in support of their government, the so-called "widespread" protests are not so at all. They are being promoted in the MINORITY districts (only 17 out of 235) of well-off middle class and upper class districts.
You repeat the same BS about Venezuela being a "dictatorship" in waiting when all evidence shows they have more of a democracy than the USA. Jimmy Carter called their electoral system "the best in the world", something can hardly be said about the joke of an electoral system we have in the US, with hundreds of different forms of voting even within states and even within districts.
It is true the Venezuelan government had made mistakes but the main thrust of the protests have a foreign source using the upper classes to attack their government.
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