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Even DEMOCRATS fully understand that putting Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) anywhere near their 2020 presidential ticket would spell disaster for Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, or WHOMEVER ends up winning that party's nomination! She is Alexandria Ocasion-Cortez, complete with anti-Semitism!
Earlier this week, the Muslim congresswoman was quoted blaming the United States (and President Trump) for the suffering currently plaguing the nation of Venezuela. She insists that all of those years of socialist economic are NOT the problem! What's awkward about this is that Omar hails from the African nation of SOMALIA - she of all people should understand how Marxism can trash any country.
During the 70's & 80's, her country had its very own Hugo Chavez, as Somalia was run by the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, created by strongman Siad Barr, who fled in 1991, leaving behind a failed state. By 1992, that instability had forced Omar and her family to flee to America, where they secured asylum in 1995.
Venezuela is a country with tremendous economic potential. Its proven oil reserves (of 297 billion barrels) are the largest in the world. Like Cuba, its promise of prosperity once attracted European immigrants by the thousands. Any European immigrating to Venezuela or Cuba today should have his-or-her head examined. Not even liberal Americans ever consider doing that! From 1999 to the present, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) ran that nation into the ground, first with the charismatic Hugo Chávez, who was followed in 2013 by the decidedly UNCHARISMATIC Nicolás Maduro.
But Ilhan Omar is ignoring all of that, so that she can instead do what progressive-liberal-Democrats do best, and that's to "Blame America First" - which is what she did:
“A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela, and we have sort of set the stage for where we are arriving today,” she claimed. “This particular bullying and the use of sanctions to eventually intervene and make regime change really does not help the people of countries like Venezuela, and it certainly does not help and is not in the interest” of the U.S.
Except that the bullying hasn't come from Washington. If anything, the CUBAN government has played a considerably larger role! The Castro family has been pulling the strings of both Chávez and Maduro for decades.
In 1990, with the Berlin Wall falling and the Soviet Union disintegrating, Fidel Castro realized that he was going to need new sources of revenue. And so, with the help of Brazilian socialist President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Castro created a movement called the Sao Paulo Forum to indoctrinate other countries into accepting socialist economics.
Hugo Chávez, a young military officer spending time in prison for a failed putsch, was freed in 1994, and Castro saw his chance. He invited Chávez to Havana and began using the Forum to groom him to run for office as a populist, which Chávez did in 1998 with well-known success. Since then, the Castro family has had the same parasitic relationship with Venezuelan oil that it has had with Cuban resources. So much so that, when Chávez died, Castro remarked, “Without Venezuelan oil our revolution will fail.” He added: “Maduro is now our man in Caracas.”
Today, Venezuela’s oil industry is a shambles, run into the ground by socialist cronies installed by Chávez and Maduro. Socialism has RUINED Venezuela, just as it once destroyed Somalia. Why can’t Rep. Omar see this?