See all the starving Venezuelans on Juan's timeline. Looks a little bit like a UNICEF advertisement: Feed the hungry. With USAID.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

There are many strange critiques of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's appearance with news presenters MADDOW and MATTHEWS after the SOTU. (Address and response transcripts @ eurotrib.com "News and Views" section). So I finally transcribed remarks about "socialism".

I have given this 00:6:35 segment, embedded at RealClearPolitics.com, a new, absolutely politic title, "MSNBC hosts interview Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ana-Maria Archila" (5 Feb 2019). I will skip the first three-minute invocation of the power of Assoc. Justice Kavanaugh to destroy the lives of every body living in the USA --as including this might easily be construed by some readers as "ad hominem attack" on the specific question posed.

@4:51

MATTHEWS:What did you make of the president's, I thought, pretty aggressive statement of Venezuela tonight? And he talked about [it] beeing a socialist country and how we're never going to be a socialist country. It was pretty truculent, but it tied the notion of socialism to that particular regime. How, what do you think about the president and why he did that?
AOC: Well, I think, I think that he needs to do it because  he feels like, he feels himself losing on the issues. Every single policy proposal that we have adopted and presented to the American public has been overwhelmingly popular, even some with a majority of republican voters supporting what we're talking about. We talked about a 70% marginal tax rate on incomes over $10M. 60% of Americans approve it. 70% of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for all. A very large amount of Americans believe that we need to do something about climate change and that's an existential threat to ourselves and to our children. And so I think he sees himself losing on the issues . He sees himself losing on the wall, on the wall on the southern border. And he needs to grasp at ad hominem attack, and this is his way of doing it. But what we really need to realize is that what is happening is, this is an issue about authoritarian regime versus democracy. And in order for him to try to dissuade or throw people of the scent of the trail, he has to really make and confuse the public. And I think that is exactly what he's trying to do.

[emphasis added - ed.]

My understanding is: Authoritarian regime is the true argument (AOC); socialist regime is the false argument (DJT). This rhetorical distinction places Rep. Ocasio-Cortez in the general-purpose "meddling" group for removing the dictator in order to establish democracy in Venezuela.

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VIDEO:Max Blumenthal asks members of Congress if the US is meddling in Venezuela, 31 Jan 2019
"We're working on our response but thank you."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

An Interview The Saker on Venezuela
Provocative historical analysis, several plausible, realistic forward-looking statements in re: commodity pricing and market structure (not only because Hudson draw Yergin into consideration). Note with amusement that Chris Hedges has started prophesying collapse of petrodollar, too, imminent invasion of Venezuela notwithstanding.

My one "quibble" is this bromide.

Over the longer run, Maduro also must develop Venezuelan agriculture, along much the same lines that the United States protected and developed its agriculture under the New Deal legislation of the 1930s...

Not really --and don't get me started on consolidation, displaced tenant farmers, and fed "price supports"; Maduro will never get that opportunity. The income and credit are gone. stop. Chavez did attempt during his term to diversify domestic product (land distribution, re-settlements, coops, etc.), then Venezuela's revenue stream dried up again. stop. The co-oops are still there, more or less, on the frontier without a life-line to government subsidies and protection. stop. Hudson is struggling to fit a 100-year-old paradigm: Lately, Maduro admin has been seen shopping precious and rare earth metals for credit, as if that would not end in more rope.

The salient point here is that US and its allies are the problem, and Hudson doesn't know how to fix that. NTTAWWT. Irving Fisher didn't know either, and Krugmand doesn't give a shit.

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spare prose journals by Venezuelans
Fleeing home in time of peace, 4-day road trip into the frontier
the crypto currency Petro
the threat perceived by people of moderate or higher wealth in Chile at the  time was perfectly rational
US Foreign Policy from Crisis to Crisis

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

.@SpeakerPelosi endorses Trump-sponsored coup in Venezuela. Refuses to condemn illegal US sanctions, which will destroy what's left of Venezuela's economy, killing many, many Venezuela's, opposition and government supporters alike https://t.co/x4EVZHkcdk

— venezuelanalysis.com (@venanalysis) February 8, 2019

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Pelosi's daughter: My mom will 'cut your head off and you won't even know you're bleeding'

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump's Coup in Venezuela

On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group have now been joined (though she didn't say to what extent) by the EU, and by 8 other individual countries. The Lima Group had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela's current President Nicolás Maduro.
[...]
Playing a key role behind the scenes was Lima Group member Canada, whose Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland spoke to Guaido [9 January 2019] the night before Maduro's swearing-in ceremony [on 10 January 2019] to offer her government's support should he confront the socialist leader [Maduro], the Canadian official said. Also active was Colombia, which shares a border with Venezuela and has received more than two million migrants fleeing economic chaos, along with Peru and Brazil's new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
[...]
This gang was going to make Maduro an offer that he couldn't refuse. So, the Lima Group, which was founded by Luna and by Freeland, was taking the initiative as much and as boldly as Trump was, regardless of what NATO might think about it. The topic of that news-report, and its headline, was "Peru proposes Grupo de Lima to involve the UN to face the Venezuelan crisis." Four days later, Freeland and Luna met privately at the U.N., in New York, with the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres....

Maybe she will get NAFTA signed for Trudeau and badass bonus.

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Trump totally punked Canada.
my mistake
Women are quite capable of lying as persuasively as any man.
MANY UNSCRUPULOUS PEOPLE AMONG US
it is not always in a female's reproductive interests to ally with other females against males.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

universal basic income (UBI) or wtf?
Reporter's Diary from Venezuela.
"In short, I get a feeling that neither the President, nor the opposition, know anything about the economy in Venezuela."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Whose side are you on?

Seagoon:
Now, now what's all this about?

Moriarty:
It is the revolution señor - everywhere there is an armed rising.

Seagoon:
Are you in it?

Moriarty:
Right in it - you see, you see señor, the united anti-socialist neo-democratic pro-fascist communist party is fighting to overthrow the unilateral democratic united partisan bellicose pacifist cobelligerant tory labour liberal party!

Seagoon:
Whose side are you on?

Moriarty:
There are no sides - we are all in this together.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Deutscher Bunestag | Zur Anerkennung ausländischer Staatsoberhäupter

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Eichmann in Jerusalem
Epilogue--discourse of jurisdiction, Raison d'état, international tribunal

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Your automatic translator has failed you. "Engineering" translates as "ingenierìa" when it is a noun referring to an activity. But in this case you want the verb. "Engineering" as the gerund form of "to engineer" should translate as an infinitive form such as "diseñar" or something. There is the added complication that "to engineer" doesn't translate directly into Spanish, as Spanish is not as flexible as English when it comes to noun in verbs and verbing nouns.

Thanks for playing anyway.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

Clashes at border ... no not Trump's wall and U.S. military threat shoot to kill ... border Venezuela with Trump's copy in Brazil:

Continúan represiones contra el pueblo pemon https://t.co/XM01mrWO52

— A.C. KAPE KAPE (@ackapekape) February 22, 2019

Global Warming - distance between America and Europe is steadily increasing.

Murican foreign policy in a nutshell: If our oil is under your country, it won't be your country for long.