Venezuela's novia, Eva Golinger, not a fan of Maduro

[Bacchus4.0]

Still professes love for Hugo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/opinion/contributors/a-tale-of-three-presidents.html

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Venezuela is living through its worst political and economic crisis in history. The International Monetary Fund has predicted that Venezuela’s inflation will top one million percent by the end of this year, a concept unimaginable from afar, but very real to Venezuelans. Picture this: The price I paid in 2006 for a three-bedroom apartment in a middle-class area of Caracas would today be equivalent to less than a dollar and couldn’t even buy a single roll of toilet paper in Venezuela, if you could find one.

Recent reports from the United Nations show that Venezuelans are suffering — even dying — from lack of access to essential medicines and health supplies. More than two million Venezuelans have fled the country in search of food, medical treatment and economic opportunity in the last three years. The huge migration of Venezuelans has so overwhelmed the region that neighboring countries like Ecuador, Colombia and Panama have put tighter border controls in place.
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Nicolás Maduro is no Hugo Chávez. He is an unpopular president with questionable legitimacy, accused of widespread violations of human rights, corruption and elections fraud. Though he tries to emulate Mr. Chávez, he is more similar to his northern counterpart, Donald Trump.

Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Maduro thrives on deception, exaggeration and lies. He denies a humanitarian crisis exists in Venezuela and blames the United States for his own mess. Should he be ousted in a coup, crippled by economic sanctions or overthrown in a foreign invasion? No. Venezuela’s problems must be resolved by Venezuelans. Instead of entertaining the possibility of a military intervention to remove Mr. Maduro, Washington should focus on circumventing our own budding kleptocracy led by another aspiring autocrat.

[GatoGordo]

1. The Bolivarian Socialists are now calling her a traitor, or worse, a CIA spy!

A same opinion piece by Eva, in Aporrea, a website devoted to the memory of Hugo Chavez

https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a270674.html

The Marxists in Venezuela (puppets of the Castroists) cannot bring themselves to believe that their Utopian dream is crashing down all around them. They don't lack at all for excuses... the hallmark of their depravity. Any time something breaks (neglected over the last 19 years) they blame saboteurs. GOD FORBID they understand the concept of preventative maintenance, or the the meaning of the word "update".

The golden goose (PdVSA, the state oil company) has been plucked and now, the carcass is about to be devoured by creditors.

Venezuela manufactures NOTHING. Not food. Not clothing. Not medicine. What was at one time profitable was "nationalized" (confiscated) and ruined.

The educated flee for other countries. A skeleton crew of teachers, doctors, nurses and engineers. Most skilled electricians and oil workers have left for Brazil, Mexico or Colombia. Women give birth on filthy hospital floors, with NO RUNNING WATER and spotty electricity.

In the country with the worlds largest proven oil reserves, they cannot pump their own oil. They buy gasoline from Mexico. (90% of the oil they pump goes to pay back old debts to China or Russia.) What little left over they "give in solidarity!" to Cuba. Their refineries cannot even produce motor oil for buses. Not that many run any longer. No new cars in Venezuela over the last 4 years, and rare is the spare parts to fix the old ones.

But, to hear the Chavistas, things are about to change for the better! They keep coming up with new and improved "plans for economic growth and recovery" that are as fraudulent as the Venezuelan cryptocurrency. Which is handy, because their entire recovery program is built around a crypto that nobody can even buy, let alone redeem.

But none of that is important. What is important is The Revolution. People will always dies, but the Revolution MUST live on.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Sounds like her change of heart has been relatively recent

That was her only piece in 2018 I see and as recently 2017 she wrote an article criticizing the opposition and giving at least tepid support for Maduro and the chavistas. I wonder if our resident chavista will ever see the light.