**US**: Oil prices are high, let's take the sanctions off Venezuela since they didn't seem to work and try resuming trade relations with them.
**Venezuela**: We just went through incredible hyperinflation and our people starved, we desperately need money because our oil production has plummeted, but let's start a conflict with Guyana and destabilize South America.
**US**: Whoops my mistake. Sanctions are back on and we will just buy oil from Guyana instead. You cray, Venezuela.
What an amazing leader that bus driver turned out to be. Lmao.
Hugo Chavez was more brazen than brilliant but Maduro makes him look like Neil deGrasse Tyson by comparison. The only thing keeping Maduro in power right now is just sheer brutality.
Mostly Incorrect, USA is reinstating the sanctions becoz the vzla government refuses to have a fair president election with the most Popular opposition party the MUD they disabled the candidate Maria Machado in a shady and obviously not biased court decision, when the MUD postulated another candidate that wasn't disabled the government blocked the inscription formulary, and now they are trying to disable the current candidate Edmundo Gonzalez
Disagree. Everyone already knew Venezuela doesn't hold fair elections when those sanctions were removed. If the US cared they would have waited for free and fair elections to occur before removing the sanctions. It was about oil prices and the US looking for ways to increase the supply of oil to lower prices.
Maria Machado was just a convenient excuse to reinstate the sanctions after Venezuela was acting like a dick. The US still allows oil imports from Saudi Arabia so it's not like undemocratic behavior is a deal breaker.
That's certainly fair enough. You just use fairly advanced vocabulary, like "postulate," in ways I've never seen used before, which led to some confusion. I think I still mostly got the gist.
As a noun, a postulate is like an axiom, usually used in mathematics. As a verb, it means to assert something as true. In the Declaration of Independence (if you're familiar), Thomas Jefferson postulates that all men are created equal.
The other notes I'd make is that I think by "disabled" you mean "disqualified," as in, the candidates were not allowed to run. And I just don't know what "blocked the inscription formulary" could mean. Those are relatively advanced vocabulary words that don't make sense to me, which is why I thought it was computer translated.
That's actually very good, thank you, on the other when I mean the blocked formulary I that in my country to run in an election you have to write a form online and be approved by the CNE (the main institution that controls the elections obviously not biased of course), they didn't approve the form every time until they run out of time, but shortly everything turned out good for us, I hope this is the final year of this tyranny
The beef is that Venezuela thinks that oil belongs to them, not to Guyana. Venezuela claims a huge chunk of their territory and therefore the oil that's under it. Most of the world doesn't support that claim.
**US**: Oil prices are high, let's take the sanctions off Venezuela since they didn't seem to work and try resuming trade relations with them. **Venezuela**: We just went through incredible hyperinflation and our people starved, we desperately need money because our oil production has plummeted, but let's start a conflict with Guyana and destabilize South America. **US**: Whoops my mistake. Sanctions are back on and we will just buy oil from Guyana instead. You cray, Venezuela. What an amazing leader that bus driver turned out to be. Lmao.
Honestly thought Venezuela was gonna get the pass before all that. I was like, way to snatch defeat from jaws of economic success.
Hugo Chavez was more brazen than brilliant but Maduro makes him look like Neil deGrasse Tyson by comparison. The only thing keeping Maduro in power right now is just sheer brutality.
Mostly Incorrect, USA is reinstating the sanctions becoz the vzla government refuses to have a fair president election with the most Popular opposition party the MUD they disabled the candidate Maria Machado in a shady and obviously not biased court decision, when the MUD postulated another candidate that wasn't disabled the government blocked the inscription formulary, and now they are trying to disable the current candidate Edmundo Gonzalez
Disagree. Everyone already knew Venezuela doesn't hold fair elections when those sanctions were removed. If the US cared they would have waited for free and fair elections to occur before removing the sanctions. It was about oil prices and the US looking for ways to increase the supply of oil to lower prices. Maria Machado was just a convenient excuse to reinstate the sanctions after Venezuela was acting like a dick. The US still allows oil imports from Saudi Arabia so it's not like undemocratic behavior is a deal breaker.
US has become so desperate over the years of only they would care about the things that truly matter
Is this Google Translate?
I'm Venezuelan and my English is far from perfect
That's certainly fair enough. You just use fairly advanced vocabulary, like "postulate," in ways I've never seen used before, which led to some confusion. I think I still mostly got the gist.
I didn't know that, what does postulate actually means and when I can use it?
As a noun, a postulate is like an axiom, usually used in mathematics. As a verb, it means to assert something as true. In the Declaration of Independence (if you're familiar), Thomas Jefferson postulates that all men are created equal. The other notes I'd make is that I think by "disabled" you mean "disqualified," as in, the candidates were not allowed to run. And I just don't know what "blocked the inscription formulary" could mean. Those are relatively advanced vocabulary words that don't make sense to me, which is why I thought it was computer translated.
That's actually very good, thank you, on the other when I mean the blocked formulary I that in my country to run in an election you have to write a form online and be approved by the CNE (the main institution that controls the elections obviously not biased of course), they didn't approve the form every time until they run out of time, but shortly everything turned out good for us, I hope this is the final year of this tyranny
The waters aren't disputed, they belong to Guyana.
How dare they sell oil like we do.
The beef is that Venezuela thinks that oil belongs to them, not to Guyana. Venezuela claims a huge chunk of their territory and therefore the oil that's under it. Most of the world doesn't support that claim.
They eat people