VENEZUELA SWITCHES TO FULL LEFTIST TYRANNY

Madura, the brown Stalin.

The Leftist regime of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela has now banned opposition parties from running in the 2018 election. This completes the country's transition from  a semi-tyrannical state to a full Leftist tyranny.

Since leftists, led by former president Hugo Chavez, won elections in 1999, the oil-rich country has become increasingly impoverished and undemocratic, with the unpopular leftists finding increasingly underhanded ways to maintain their grip on power. 

In the latest twist, Stalin-look-a-like Madura has banned the main opposition parties from participating in next year's general election, using the fact that they boycotted municipal elections on the weekend as a flimsy excuse. 

"The opposition has disappeared from the political map,"Madura said in a speech on Sunday (10th December), responding to the opposition boycott. "A party that has not participated today and has called for the boycott of the elections can't participate anymore." 

The opposition parties refused to participate in the municipal elections in protest at what they saw as a biased and corrupt electoral system that favours Madura's United Socialist Party of Venezuela. 

Madura has also imprisoned opposition figures on false charges and set up a separate body -- the National Constituent Assembly -- to overrule the Venezuelan Parliament, in which the United Socialist Party of Venezuela was soundly defeated in the 2015  Parliamentary elections.

The big question now is what will the Trump administration do? Is Trump too distracted by his domestic problems, including ongoing Deep State attempts to undermine and impeach him, or will he see confronting Madura as a way to shake off his domestic problems? 

The fact is that deposing Madura, either through a US-backed coup or military intervention, presents the USA with an easy-to-win conflict in an oil rich state, unlike further military involvement in the Middle East.