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Various news outlets are reporting on an announcement by the Venezuelan government that it will leave the Organization of American States (OAS), a process that takes two years. The country will stop participating in OAS meetings immediately. No country has left the OAS since its founding in 1948.
According to Venezuela-based teleSUR, the move comes in response
[...] to a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States to discuss Venezuela scheduled for Wednesday, which violates the rules of the organization because it does not have the consent of the affected country.
[The foreign minister] indicated that there is also a group of countries with right-wing governments working under U.S. imperialist orders against Venezuela.
Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets demanding [President Nicolás] Maduro hold elections and denouncing his government as being responsible for triple-digit inflation, food shortages and a rise [in] crime.
It also says that 29 people have been killed in connection with the protests.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @09:43PM (2 children)
Communism, once achieved, would include the dissolving of national borders.
Communism follows a worldwide acceptance of Socialism (Democracy in the Workplace; Democracy EVERYWHERE).
What Venezuela has is NOT Communism.
It is a failed form of Liberal Democracy.
Their gov't has failed, but even more importantly their ECONOMY has failed.
If Chavez had started enabling worker-owned cooperatives as soon as he was in, Venezuela could be producing their own food and manufactured goods--perhaps even exporting that stuff.
Italy showed the way to workers practicing Socialism starting in 1985. The Marcora Law [google.com]
That has been monumentally successful and hasn't cost them one additional Euro (it's actually gotten them MORE revenue via employed workers and their Socialist companies paying taxes).
If you didn't have such crap sources of "information" (USA's Lamestream Media) you'd know about that (as well as Mondragon's success since 1956).
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 29 2017, @01:54AM (1 child)
Borderless assumes indirectly that people on all sides of a border is similar. It's just like asking people to do away with locks on their house door. And any thoughts as to how that plays out hints on the issues at a national level. Like being roomies with a whole city. Which of course also precludes anyone doing anything different because a situation like that will indirectly thwart any initiative to make a difference.
Venezuela enabled top level greed and neglect. Then reality did them in. And that rule of course applies to any country that let their top level decision makers line their own pockets and neglect the society.
Regarding media. Have they ever presented sufficiently full and accurate information? like ever?
Mondragon, this? [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @02:58AM
Capital is already borderless.
Why is that deserving of special treatment when labor is not?
Highly mobile capital can be every bit as destructive as mobile labor. Moreso IMO.
Are you that committed to further enriching The Oppressor Class?
...or are you suggesting that transferability of capital be restricted to match the mobility of labor?
You appear to be clinging tightly to the Capitalist paradigm.
Let it go.
Try thinking in terms of workers as members of a group who work for the betterment of all workers.
...instead of trying to claw others out of the way in order to get a poverty-wage job busting their asses for a Capitalist who will exploit them.
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Yes, -that- Mondragon. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikipedia.org]
More here. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [leviatan-magazine.com]
...and dude, you really haven't been paying attention.
I must have mentioned that operation 100 times already and you're just getting curious -now-?
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