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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5371471</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[War in the end solves all things.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>War in the end solves all things.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim N</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5371334</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim N]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dude, it&#039;s just the Venezuelans way of saying &#039;hey bud, let&#039;s party!&#039;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude, it&#8217;s just the Venezuelans way of saying &#8216;hey bud, let&#8217;s party!&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Bacon_Crusader</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5371038</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bacon_Crusader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maduro announced in December that the gasoline subsidy will be reduced but never said how much. The gasoline is so cheap there&#039;s gasoline trafficking in the Colombian border. There&#039;s someone who fills the tank for You and You usually give him more in tip than for the cost of gas. 

Then there&#039;s the second problem, the debts Venezuela has with private companies and merchants is bigger than its international reserves.
(Fixed Exchange Regime, the state supplies the dollars at a fixed rate for imports thus needs high international reserves)

In other words Venezuela is running out of Dollars thus there will be more devaluations or so called painful reforms, Venezuela is one of the countries very likely to default alongside Argentina and Ukraine.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-03/will-ukraine-s-riots-batter-a-star-bond-investor-.html

The austerity will come from somewhere, even if it&#039;s not gasoline, there&#039;s no other way to solve that problem.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maduro announced in December that the gasoline subsidy will be reduced but never said how much. The gasoline is so cheap there&#8217;s gasoline trafficking in the Colombian border. There&#8217;s someone who fills the tank for You and You usually give him more in tip than for the cost of gas. </p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s the second problem, the debts Venezuela has with private companies and merchants is bigger than its international reserves.<br />
(Fixed Exchange Regime, the state supplies the dollars at a fixed rate for imports thus needs high international reserves)</p>
<p>In other words Venezuela is running out of Dollars thus there will be more devaluations or so called painful reforms, Venezuela is one of the countries very likely to default alongside Argentina and Ukraine.<br />
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-03/will-ukraine-s-riots-batter-a-star-bond-investor-.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-03/will-ukraine-s-riots-batter-a-star-bond-investor-.html</a></p>
<p>The austerity will come from somewhere, even if it&#8217;s not gasoline, there&#8217;s no other way to solve that problem.</p>
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		<title>By: Gamal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gamal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ll bet paying off the loan from Russia for weapons is a big factor in oil rich Venezuela&#039;s poverty.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll bet paying off the loan from Russia for weapons is a big factor in oil rich Venezuela&#8217;s poverty.</p>
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		<title>By: Silver Gonzales</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5371001</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Silver Gonzales]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if Maduro was born in Colombia, this is not the issue all due respect. But I agree that Wiki cannot be trusted. It is the Walter Kronkite of on line info.

But You are stressing irrelevant stuff. I know Cucuta, Barquisimeto,,,Americans who know little about Mundo Latino are not understanding you, He is a plant we all know that. 

Colombia is not the enemy.  Spiritually Maduro was re-born in Habana, Cuba. His close soldiers and guards are either Cuban born or Cuban trained plus the Hamas/ Fata/PLO guards he has. I know. I have seen them in Venezuela. They are scum. They rape the female students. Friends of Oliver Stone, Sean Penn and all the Hollywood/Euro lefty scum.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even if Maduro was born in Colombia, this is not the issue all due respect. But I agree that Wiki cannot be trusted. It is the Walter Kronkite of on line info.</p>
<p>But You are stressing irrelevant stuff. I know Cucuta, Barquisimeto,,,Americans who know little about Mundo Latino are not understanding you, He is a plant we all know that. </p>
<p>Colombia is not the enemy.  Spiritually Maduro was re-born in Habana, Cuba. His close soldiers and guards are either Cuban born or Cuban trained plus the Hamas/ Fata/PLO guards he has. I know. I have seen them in Venezuela. They are scum. They rape the female students. Friends of Oliver Stone, Sean Penn and all the Hollywood/Euro lefty scum.</p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The glamor of the Venezuelan &quot;Revolution&quot; appears to be over.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The glamor of the Venezuelan &#8220;Revolution&#8221; appears to be over.</p>
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		<title>By: DB1954</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5370871</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DB1954]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Penn takes great solace being held in the arms of that &quot;elegant man&quot; he so admires. Sniffff that&#039;s so very sweet isn&#039;t it?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Penn takes great solace being held in the arms of that &#8220;elegant man&#8221; he so admires. Sniffff that&#8217;s so very sweet isn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>By: DB1954</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5370865</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DB1954]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 03:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But what happens if he simply won&#039;t do them?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But what happens if he simply won&#8217;t do them?</p>
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		<title>By: DB1954</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DB1954]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kill the ignorant bus-driver and his stormtroopers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kill the ignorant bus-driver and his stormtroopers.</p>
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		<title>By: ebonystone</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5370724</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ebonystone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile in the U.S.:  &quot;America&#039;s puppet dictator (who, by the way, is Kenyan, not American) did not win Nov. 2012&#039;s election. He stole the elections by resorting to all sorts of voter intimidation and fraud.&quot;
Maybe Maduro is taking lessons from the Americans rather than the Cubans.
At least the Venezuelans seem about ready to do something about their left-wing tyrant.  Americans, not so much.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meanwhile in the U.S.:  &#8220;America&#8217;s puppet dictator (who, by the way, is Kenyan, not American) did not win Nov. 2012&#8242;s election. He stole the elections by resorting to all sorts of voter intimidation and fraud.&#8221;<br />
Maybe Maduro is taking lessons from the Americans rather than the Cubans.<br />
At least the Venezuelans seem about ready to do something about their left-wing tyrant.  Americans, not so much.</p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wikipedia article most likely quoted either Maduro himself or his Cuban Communist-backed regime. The fact is that Maduro never presented his birth certificate despite multiple requests from the democratic opposition to do so. Since he hasn&#039;t presented his birth certificate, he is illegitimate. Maduro was born in the Colombian city of Cucuta in 1961. Again, you can&#039;t fully trust Wikipedia, as anyone can edit that website&#039;s articles. In addition, Wikipedia is dominated by the left, so there is bias in the article. Maduro became a Venezuelan citizen at age 11, and the cutoff age for acquisition of citizenship to be considered a natural-born citizen of Venezuela is 7. The point is that Maduro is a huge fraud. That&#039;s the reality.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Wikipedia article most likely quoted either Maduro himself or his Cuban Communist-backed regime. The fact is that Maduro never presented his birth certificate despite multiple requests from the democratic opposition to do so. Since he hasn&#8217;t presented his birth certificate, he is illegitimate. Maduro was born in the Colombian city of Cucuta in 1961. Again, you can&#8217;t fully trust Wikipedia, as anyone can edit that website&#8217;s articles. In addition, Wikipedia is dominated by the left, so there is bias in the article. Maduro became a Venezuelan citizen at age 11, and the cutoff age for acquisition of citizenship to be considered a natural-born citizen of Venezuela is 7. The point is that Maduro is a huge fraud. That&#8217;s the reality.</p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5370548</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not trust Wikipedia. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. In addition, Wikipedia is largely dominated by the left, so it is obvious that they will post Chavista propaganda in the page focusing on Maduro. The fact is that Maduro is a fraud and he knows it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do not trust Wikipedia. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. In addition, Wikipedia is largely dominated by the left, so it is obvious that they will post Chavista propaganda in the page focusing on Maduro. The fact is that Maduro is a fraud and he knows it.</p>
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		<title>By: Silver Gonzales</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Silver Gonzales]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro was born on 23 November 1962 in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of a union leader.[3][4] He attended a public high school at the Liceo José Ávalos in El Valle, a working-class neighborhood on the western outskirts of Caracas.[5][4] His first introduction to politics was when he became a member of his high school&#039;s student union.[3] Maduro was raised as a Roman Catholic, and his paternal family ancestry is of Sephardic Jewish origin.[6][7][8][9][10]  - WIKIPEDIA



Even if Maduro was born in Colombia, this is not the issue all due respect. 


Spiritually Maduro was re-born in Habana, Cuba. His close soldiers and guards are either Cuban born or Cuban trained plus the Hamas/ Fata/PLO guards he has.  I know. I have seen them in Venezuela. They are scum.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nicolás Maduro was born on 23 November 1962 in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of a union leader.[3][4] He attended a public high school at the Liceo José Ávalos in El Valle, a working-class neighborhood on the western outskirts of Caracas.[5][4] His first introduction to politics was when he became a member of his high school&#8217;s student union.[3] Maduro was raised as a Roman Catholic, and his paternal family ancestry is of Sephardic Jewish origin.[6][7][8][9][10]  &#8211; WIKIPEDIA</p>
<p>Even if Maduro was born in Colombia, this is not the issue all due respect. </p>
<p>Spiritually Maduro was re-born in Habana, Cuba. His close soldiers and guards are either Cuban born or Cuban trained plus the Hamas/ Fata/PLO guards he has.  I know. I have seen them in Venezuela. They are scum.</p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5370232</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about that. I just can&#039;t stand seeing people in the media and around the world refer to Maduro as Venezuela&#039;s &quot;president&quot;. He is illegitimate. I&#039;m sorry if my post above seemed like an argument.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry about that. I just can&#8217;t stand seeing people in the media and around the world refer to Maduro as Venezuela&#8217;s &#8220;president&#8221;. He is illegitimate. I&#8217;m sorry if my post above seemed like an argument.</p>
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		<title>By: cacslewisfan</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/showdown-in-caracas/comment-page-1/#comment-5370175</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cacslewisfan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know so shamefully little about the spread of communism in South America.  I do my best to educate myself now, but I&#039;m coming from way behind.  It infuriates me that my education consisted mostly of hysterical sobbing over &quot;Red Baiting,&quot; McCarthyism, and that horrible play &quot;The Crucible.&quot;  No wonder Obama won twice.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know so shamefully little about the spread of communism in South America.  I do my best to educate myself now, but I&#8217;m coming from way behind.  It infuriates me that my education consisted mostly of hysterical sobbing over &#8220;Red Baiting,&#8221; McCarthyism, and that horrible play &#8220;The Crucible.&#8221;  No wonder Obama won twice.</p>
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		<title>By: Nicholas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So he lied. Wikipedia swallowed the lie.


We can always test his DNA.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So he lied. Wikipedia swallowed the lie.</p>
<p>We can always test his DNA.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did not argue with you.

I merely called Maduro a moron in an unconventional way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I did not argue with you.</p>
<p>I merely called Maduro a moron in an unconventional way.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect</a></p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maduro is not Jewish. He is just saying that he is Jewish in order to hide his rabid anti-Semitism. Remember that he considered it an &quot;honor&quot; that Israel expelled Venezuelan diplomats in response to Chavez expelling Israeli diplomats during the Israel-Hamas war in 2008-2009. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maduro is not Jewish. He is just saying that he is Jewish in order to hide his rabid anti-Semitism. Remember that he considered it an &#8220;honor&#8221; that Israel expelled Venezuelan diplomats in response to Chavez expelling Israeli diplomats during the Israel-Hamas war in 2008-2009. </p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even then, the Communist puppet regime is accusing the State Department of taking part in the democratic uprising in Venezuela. The fact of the matter is that Maduro is a puppet of the Castro family dictatorship in Cuba. That is undeniable. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even then, the Communist puppet regime is accusing the State Department of taking part in the democratic uprising in Venezuela. The fact of the matter is that Maduro is a puppet of the Castro family dictatorship in Cuba. That is undeniable. </p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is not the rightful president of Venezuela. He not only stole the election from the rightful president (Henrique Capriles), but Maduro is not Venezuelan. He is Colombian. For the past year, Venezuela has been governed by an illegitimate leader who is also a puppet of Communist Cuba.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He is not the rightful president of Venezuela. He not only stole the election from the rightful president (Henrique Capriles), but Maduro is not Venezuelan. He is Colombian. For the past year, Venezuela has been governed by an illegitimate leader who is also a puppet of Communist Cuba.</p>
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