Will Gu on the deep and worldly wisdom on offer at Scripps College:
The college will be hosting two Venezuelan officials next week at a three-day speaker series praising the “grassroots initiatives” of the country’s totalitarian government. The officials, Venezuelan Consul-Generals Antonio Cordero and Jesús Chucho García, will be speaking to students on “African solidarities,” “coups and imperial wars,” and the country’s vision for “a new society rooted in political participation, communal economies and democracy.” The description adds that the event is “for all who are interested in economics that serve people not profits.”
Venezuela is still facing mass food shortages as a result of its government’s economic illiteracy. People in Venezuela have lost an average of 19 pounds from recent food shortages… The event description does not mention whether the two Venezuelan officials will discuss their country’s rampant corruption problem, the government’s dire financial situation, or the rapid devaluation of Venezuela’s currency to the extent that the government cannot afford to pay for money printing services.
Education in Venezuela?
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2018/04/07/miseducation-at-schools-keeps-venezuela-out-of-the-international-development-ranking-in-2018/
“The future of countries resembles the present of their schools” said the former Education Secretary of Miranda State, Juan Maragall. Last year, he described Venezuela as a “black sheep” when it comes to school performance: “In 2010, when we applied the Pisa international tests in Miranda to evaluate 15-year-old students, 80% had unacceptable levels in math, and the world average is 12%. That’s critical, if you don’t have mathematical thinking, you can’t have scientific or logical thinking, you have many personal and professional limitations.”
meanwhile, after lopping off another 3 “0’s” from its currency the Bolivar, (or in some circles, the “strong bolivar”) in cross border trading at Cucata Colombia, has shown another slide in value in the past week of about -12%
The bolivar had slowed its slide towards zimbabwean levels of zeros because there just wasn’t anything for sale to gauge it against. About 305,000. : 1 USD now.
https://dolartoday.com
These people are insane.
Human Rights Watch annual report on Venezuela…
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/venezuela
Where’s the money?
http://alekboyd.blogspot.ca/2017/12/record-rafael-ramirez-corruption-pdvsa.html
You couldn’t make it up.
Our very own Neo-Marxists still try to blame capitalism for this sh*thole state of affairs.
Economics and that don’t “serve” profits don’t serve people.
sorry sport but profits pay the taxes that the leeches get to take from the producers.
Sounds like North Korea. North Koreans are smaller than South Koreans, because they have been subjected to decades of starvation. The average height is smaller, average weight is smaller, …
Venezuela is proof that the earth is majority stupid; despite the failure of socialism everywhere it has been tried, the mass graves everywhere it has been tried, … there is always a line up of new sucker countries who think “pure socialism has never been tried”.
The temptation now, becomes “we should sterilize people who have the defective genes that make them socialists”. But, eugenics has been tried. And it did not work either. There will always be a Jim Jones/Karl Marx/Stalin/Mao/Castro/Guevara/Pol Pot/Idid Amin/Chavez/Trudeau/Obama/Sanders/Clinton/Notely/Wynne/Hitler/Corbyn/Merkel/… , and there will always be willing masses ready to drink the Kool-aid.
The one lesson we can take from history, is that history has never taught anybody anything. It tried, but it always has been, and always will be, ignored.
yah, religions live for so long because people DO NOT LEARN from history
The results of the last few centuries are contrary to your assertion. The US was one nation under God, founded that the federal government would not infringe the state’s rights regarding religion, and is around 250. The USSR was the longest lasting communist, and one of the longer lasting officially atheistic, states when the wall fell at around 70. The churches in St. Petersburg have attendees despite so long in what you appear to think is a superior system. Russian Orthodox survived communism. It’s freedom that is important.
You can choose to not believe, I can choose to believe. Either one of us trying to force to other causes problems. Your constant denigration of those of us who believe is tiresome. Your intolerance paints everything else you say, because we automatically think “I wonder if he’s off his meds again?”
And if I am incorrect and it’s not a medication thing…. well, God loves you anyways, even though you make it hard for your fellow man to tolerate you.
Heh
you’ve got to give credit to the dictators and would be dictators, they, without even trying, reduce the waist line of the population, something the north America could use a whole lot.
Maybe Oprah could plug into this – she of Weight Watchers fame. No more South Beach diet. The Hugo diet…..
What I find mind-boggling is that despite the disastrous economic collapse due to socialism, the college seems to think that the Venezuelan experience is a good one, and the Venezuelan officials do too, and apparently are not embarrassed by the massive failure.
Even MORE mind-boggling is that roughly half of the Venezuelan population agrees with the college and the Venezuelan officials, and are even praying for Chavez to be reincarnated. Of course, it’s possible that the opposition are “Rove Republicans” with the same One World Government goals as the rest of the world’s Communists. It is not unusual for Davos and the Bilderbergs to own all major parties in a country. ESPECIALLY in a third world country like Venezuela…
communal economies. Ahhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha! Here, try this “communal economy” … stop selling your oil abroad. Just sell it within your “communal economy” … at a price of $ 4 Billion Bolivars per barrel.
Students should really be shown the benefits of the Venezuela diet as a primer to the wonderful world of socialism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=95&v=VBf66wAMpVQ
My son got his education paid for the old fashion way, high marks & hard work = scholarships.
Scripps is listed as #26 in the rankings for liberal arts colleges and at only US$53,000 tuition or 2,628,860,000 Bolivars, it’s easily seen to be a deal. Especially when you get such outstanding tutelage from Venezuelan financial experts.
Who wants to be a Venezuelan millionaire?
Every Zimbabwean ?