Venezuela’s parliament begins doomed attempt to impeach Nicolas Maduro

Source: Hot Air | October 26, 2016 | Jazz Shaw

The starving people of Venezuela should be given credit for at least attempting to oust their socialist dictator wearing the guise of an elected president, Nicolas Maduro. Through their elected officials, the citizens attempted to begin a recall election to remove him from office. Unfortunately, Maduro controls the Supreme Court and they simply cancelled the effort with little ceremony or explanation. Having lost that battle through the normal process, the legislature will move tomorrow to begin impeachment hearings designed to directly remove the President from office. Unfortunately, that effort is likely also doomed to failure before it even begins. (Telegraph)

Venezuela‘s opposition-led National Assembly has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against President Nicolas Maduro for violating democracy, on the eve of massive protests expected across the embattled nation.

Mr Maduro’s government has dismissed the move as meaningless, and in practice the step is likely to prove purely symbolic.

But it is yet another sign of the turmoil in Venezuela – a country with the world’s largest oil reserves, and yet a place where queues stretch for hours for basic foodstuffs, and animals in zoos are killed by hungry locals.

Venezuela is a totally different kettle of fish than Brazil, where they actually manged to impeach their president this year. Maduro has once again used the Supreme Court to his advantage, having them declare any and all actions by their congress to be “null and void” until it dismisses three politicians who have been accused of corruption and vote-buying. Not only will that be a time consuming process, but with this action as precedent, Maduro should have no problem getting the Supreme Court to invent all sorts of other reasons to invalidate the actions of the legislative body should this first line of defense fall through.

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