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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 28 2017, @10:51PM (1 child)
Dunbar's Number is going to kick any large-scale attempt at communism right in the pelmeni, sorry. And have you noticed those groups never really accomplished much advancement beyond late iron age? I'm certainly not saying that communal living is antithetical to science per se, but given human nature it will tend to lead to...well, there's a reason we have the term "Lysenkoism."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:05AM
Oh, youngster.
I'll forgive you for being so clueless and not being aware of Amana appliances.
There was a time, not so long ago, when they were a big deal.
Oneida is still a widely-know name.
Apparently, at some point they let a fox into their multi-generational Socialist henhouse.
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