Venezuela has entered the phase where it is openly arresting foreign oil executives for the crime of being convenient scapegoats for the horror that Maduro, and Chavez before him, have created. This as one of the most oil richest nations on the planet is forced to import barrels of oil at a net loss of $80 to $90 a barrel.
But like any advanced socialist hellhole, the nomenklatura live a life of luxury… in Miami! Case in point, former Chavez bodyguard/thug Alejandro Andrade:
“One of these wealthy socialists is Alejandro Andrade, a former bodyguard for Hugo Chávez who rose to become Venezuela’s national treasurer. The 53-year-old Andrade now lives on a fabulous estate in Wellington, Florida, an exclusive community just west of West Palm Beach, which Money Magazine once ranked as one of America’s 100 best places to live.
“In recent articles about Andrade’s lavish lifestyle, the Palm Beach Post and Miami Herald reported that Andrade has for at least six years occupied a palatial 9,000-square-foot house with five bedrooms, marble floors, and a swimming pool. The house was purchased for $4.75 million through a shell company, the Palm Beach Post reported, and sits on a six-acre estate in a gated community in the heart of “horse country” – a perfect location for Andrade who keeps some 60 horses in a large barn. Their names include Bon Jovi and Armani Z. His son Emanuel Andrade, an Olympic equestrian, hangs out with the rich and famous, including American model Kendall Jenner and Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the Kardashian clan, the Palm Beach Post reported.”
Who here in America would defend this regime? The usual suspects, of course!
” In a statement obtained by The Claremont Independent, Scripps College’s administration defended inviting two Venezuelan diplomats last week to speak about their totalitarian government’s ‘grassroots initiatives.’
“This semester will be the second in a row that Scripps has invited Venezuelan officials to whitewash the country’s economic and human rights woes, with pro-Venezuelan regime speakers and a Venezuelan consul-general speaking last semester as well.
“Despite the Independent pointing out in an editorial that Scripps refused to allow this publication to invite conservative speaker Andrew Klavan, Scripps has maintained that it invites speakers in an effort to ‘create an opportunity for dialogue.'”
Why not create a forum for dialog for those few remaining farms that can still produce food… at least enough to feed their own starving workers, or others suffering from economic collapse and hyperinflation? Or perhaps let some of the plethora of refugees fleeing Venezuela on a level that puts more famous refugee crises to shame? Or perhaps the family of the victims of murder, who were so readily disarmed by Venezuela’s anti-right-to-bear-arms regime?
