"Fascist uprising". Hahaha.
Isn't inflation in Venezuela at 50% or something? Everything I've heard about the place recently indicates the country's on the verge of collapse. Demonstrations are hardly surprising, nor is the near-inevitability that the government will use this an excuse to crack down on dissent.
To be fair, Venezuela has an inflation problem for decades. That's one of the few things that the current government hasn't made significantly worse, but they haven't made it better either, nor can they. The neoliberal economic solutions that would have a chance at reining in inflation simply are not ideologically acceptable solutions to the current regime. It is a much higher inflation rate that I'd care to live under, but the rate of inflation isn't nearly as important as its predictability. A 50% inflation rate doesn't have to cause economic ruin provided that it is reasonably stable and people believe it won't be going even higher soon.
