so, I met this dude in uni, really nice guy, fun to talk with and an all around a fun fellow. BUT, he asked something which kind of ticked me off. He asked "why didn't they just kill Maduro in venezuela and be done with it?"...
I know he meant well and that he was just curious. but it's still a dumb question. So I'm gonna explain here how I explained it to him on this forum for if you guys come across another Venezuelan you don't ask such a silly question:
first, Imagine your president completely controlled the supreme court plus the military/police, he could make any laws he wanted and has the military/police to enact them, he has destroyed the senate and made a new one that only has his family and friends in it.
second, now imagine that in every city 20% of the populace of that city is made up of gangsters with access to "illegal"(supplied by the government usually) weapons and motorcycles. And this is for every city Major or otherwise in your country.
third, Imagine that the president apart from controlling the senate, the Supreme court and the military police; they also has complete control of all those gangsters and can tell them what to do and they do it without a second thought.
fourth, now imagine that the president tells the military, the police and the gansters that the opposition and protesters are terrorist and that they have carte blanche to kill them all without any guilt or trial from their part. Their just pigs to be slaughtered, also they can kill any random passer by with no repercussion.
and finally, Imagine that out of the 3 super economies in the world(Us, Russia and China) 2 are supporting and supplying weapons to the president in exchange for cheap and easy oil, and the only people who can have legal weapons are the Military and police(and the gangsters but they won't tell you that).
now tell me you, as a normal civilian from Venezuela who can(if lucky) eat only one or two times a day cause there is no food or water to be found, and has no way of using fire arms, cause the ammunition are scares and only the military gets re supplied; go and kill this mother fucking bastard.
after this he kind of understood why they asshole was still president after almost 5 years
P.s even if you do topple the government, the country will just be split apart from infighting as all toppled country do, from mexico to china to Germany, the government is gone the territory is divided into pieces =P no happy ending sadly.
sorry for the long post just needed to vent a bit =|
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