Venezuela a powder keg that may explode into the next Cuba (cocaine, drug)

[Dockside]

I love Venezuela. I've mentioned before I grew up there and it's a breathtakingly beautiful country. I wish Venezuela and it's people the best but that just isn't going to happen. Venezuela is about to become a failed state.

Here's an opinion piece from The Hill by Antonio Mora -

The country’s Supreme Court president is a convicted murderer. A U.S. federal court indicted its minister of the interior for drug trafficking. The U.S. Treasury Department named its vice president a drug kingpin. Two nephews of the nation's first lady are behind bars, convicted of attempting to transport 800 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. The country’s president faces a lawsuit before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, filed by 100 Latin American politicians, which accuses him of committing human rights abuses.

OPINION | Venezuela a powder keg that may explode into the next Cuba | TheHill

The right-wing blog Hot Air also has a good take on this sad story.

This is how Venezuela might become the next Cuba - Hot Air Hot Air

[moneill]

It is heartbreaking. I know a 27 year old young man who just finished his masters in Venezuela and has left for his own good. He is leaving behind his family. It is beyond sad.