{"id":23871,"date":"2019-01-31T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T03:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=23871"},"modified":"2019-01-31T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T03:33:49","slug":"commentary-so-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-so-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: So What’s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Jolly Green<\/p>

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I recently read with great interest an article in\nwhich Tobago was described as a two-star country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when you look at countries and attach stars\nto them, you may well notice there are several no star Caribbean countries, and\neven a couple which are reverse or minus star countries. Countries which were\naptly called shit holes [SH\u2019s] last year by some writers and commentators.<\/p>

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Just take a look at the SH\u2019s, Saint Vincent and the\nGrenadines comes somewhere near if not at the top of the list. So what makes\ncountries SH\u2019s? It is usually linked to rubbish politicians who create family\ndynasties in government. Such politicians are often corrupt, and they and their\ndynasty members and supporters get rich and live high on the hog. Never wanting\nto leave power, rigging elections and bribing the electorate.<\/p>

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Two kinds of people usually elect corrupt politicians,\none being those who want to eat at the trough, have a share of the stolen\nproceeds. The other is the ignorant and uneducated who know no better. Those\nfeeding at the trough are happy to go as far as rigging elections and\ncommitting heinous crimes against the state, resulting in bribery and\ncorruption, and even murder. The ignorant and yet greedy people are happy to\naccept bribes to re-elect dirty politicians for a few sheets of plywood, or\nsome bags of cement, even a bottle of strong rum and a T-shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This kind of political corruption from the top brings\nwith it judicial and police corruption. Public officers, men, and women are\nready to also eat at the trough in return for their political affiliation and\nacceptance of dynastical control of all judicial and police matters by\npoliticians. They are serving the demands of the politicians at the expense of\nthe people. <\/p>

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Often along with being corrupt, there is the dual\nproblem of such leaders being perceived as under the influence of Marxism and\ncommunism. Well perhaps more aptly understood, they want the people to be under\nthat kind of control, while they plunder the state and leave it bloodless. They\nare not Marxists or communists; they are more likely to be fascists, pretending\nto administer 21st Century Socialism, today’s secret words for communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting with Hugo Chavez striking a deal with Fidel\nCastro to give oil in exchange for second rate medical workers this was the\nbeginning of the end for Venezuela, as Chavez\u2019s actual communist policies drove\ncapitalism from the country, a procedure carried on by his successor on his\ndecease. In the process manufacturers, retailers flocked to pull their capital\nfrom the state as the economy collapsed. Even the farmers gradually fell by the\nwayside as goods and services required were unavailable and, the country\nrapidly became unable to feed itself. <\/p>

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Cuba is most certainly the root cause of the 21st\nCentury Socialism being spread via the political thieves throughout the\nCaribbean and the Americas. People have supported the Marxist rubbish, the\nCastro\u2019s, Che Guevara and the like. The Castro\u2019s became so personally rich that\nthey owned super yachts and a merchant bank in London. Forbes rich list enraged\nFidel when the labeled him a billionaire. Despite denials, Fidel\u2019s son sailed\nthe Mediterranean in a superyacht spending fistfuls of money like it was going\nout of fashion, with a constant stream of beautiful young women and skittish\nplayboys. Fidel\u2019s one-time driver and bodyguard wrote a tell-all book,\ndescribing the Castro\u2019s private luxury island and the palace they built there,\nwhere no Cuban is allowed to go or see, or even write or talk about.<\/p>

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\u2018The Double Life of Fidel Castro\u2019 In The Double Life\nof Fidel Castro, Castro’s bodyguard and aide de camp of 17 years breaks his\nsilence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment\nand torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape\nfrom Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responsible for protecting the Lider Maximo for two\ndecades, Juan Reinaldo S\u00e1nchez was party to his secret life – because\neverything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas\nfrom several continents were trained, to his immense personal fortune –\nincluding a vast property portfolio, a secret paradise island, and seizure of\npublic money – as well as his relationship with his family and his nine\nchildren from five different partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanchez’s tell-all expose reveals many state secrets\nand the many sides of the Cuban monarch: genius war leader in Nicaragua and\nAngola, paranoid autocrat at home, master spy, Machiavellian diplomat, an\naccomplice to drug traffickers. This extraordinary testimony makes us\nre-examine everything we thought we knew about the Cuban story and Fidel Castro\nRuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugo Chavez and his family came from a small town and\nlived in a tiny casa with dirt floors. His children today are among the\nhemispheres wealthiest people living in walled estates along with all the\nplaythings rich people expect to own, big cars, yachts, aeroplanes, etc. His\ndaughter alone, according to the Latin Post, Maria Gabriela Ch\u00e1vez Net Worth:\nHugo Ch\u00e1vez’s Daughter is the Richest Woman in Venezuela, Worth $4.2 Billion.\nThat\u2019s her estimated cash worth with properties and other things that increase\nthat to an untold figure. Her real income is a state salary, an amount which\nsuch wealth could never be derived from. \nWhen her father died, he also left billions in Swiss accounts which were\nadministered by a Vincentian politician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the scum leaders have gotten filthy rich on small\nsalaries; the only possible source of those wealth\u2019s is theft from the public\npurse\u2019s. There is no other way a politician can get so rich. So while the\npeople are subjected to supposed 21st Century Socialism, the political leaders\ntake away all they can carry, transfer, filter, skim and any other way they can\ngrab it all. So the people have no proper medical care, and in many cases go\nshort of food, everyone suffers while the scum and their family dynasties have\nit all, live in luxury and the create shit hole countries for their citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now at last things hopefully are falling apart for Venezuela\u2019s\nPresident Nicolas Maduro after on January 23, 2019, Venezuelan national\nassembly speaker Juan Guaid\u00f3 swore himself in as the nation\u2019s interim leader,\ngiving the South American country two heads of state. Shortly after, the US\nrecognized Guaid\u00f3\u2019s move, followed by many other nations\u2014Argentina, Brazil, Canada,\nChile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru\u2014as\nwell as the EU membership which includes the countries; Austria, Belgium,\nBulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,\nFinland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,\nLuxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,\nSpain, Sweden and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Union’s executive called for new\nelections but declined to recognize Guaido as president explicitly. An EU\nstatement urged authorities to respect his “civil rights, freedom and\nsafety” and allow Venezuelans to determine their future freely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

French President Emmanuel Macron saluted the courage\nof Venezuelans marching for freedom and called Maduro’s 2018 election victory\nillegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May\nsaid Maduro’s election was neither free nor fair and expressed support for\nGuaido as national assembly head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Maduro still holds the support of allies China, Russia,\nTurkey, Iran, North Korea, South Africa, and the ALBA membership which includes\nthe countries; Antigua and Barbuda, Republic of Cuba,  Plurinational State of Bolivia, Commonwealth\nof Dominica, Grenada, Republic of Nicaragua, Federation of Saint Christopher\nand Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. All those left\nwings or\/and corrupt country leaders who are budding dictatorships offering\n21st Century Socialism to the citizens while their people in one form or many\nsuffer at their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico, where 21st Century Socialist leader Andres\nManuel Lopez Obrador took the office of President last year, has dropped the\nprevious Mexican government’s opposition to Maduro and said he would follow a\npolicy of non-intervention. Many Mexican middle\/upper-class citizens are wary\nof Obrador, and some have voiced the possibility that the man may lead the\ncountry into the same destructive quagmire that happened in Venezuela, big\nideas and insufficient cash flow to back the policies and programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s hope this can end peacefully, but for the good\nof the Venezuelan people, let’s hope that an intervention by a group of\ncountries can take place to remove Maduro and all those who support him in the\nmilitary, police and the judiciary. Let this be the end and for the sake of\nhumanity let it happen swiftly and soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jolly Green, blowing the bugle for humanity, sod the\npolitical correctness.<\/p>\n

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