Shit is hitting the fan. Active military members and active intelligence members have declared rebelion against Maduro.

viva chavez

Sounds like you had issues before chavez .

The election of Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1973 coincided with the 1973 oil crisis, in which Venezuela's income exploded as oil prices soared; oil industries were nationalized in 1976. This led to massive increases in public spending, but also increases in external debts, which continued into the 1980s when the collapse of oil prices during the 1980s crippled the Venezuelan economy. As the government started to devalue the currency in February 1983 to face its financial obligations, Venezuelans' real standards of living fell dramatically. A number of failed economic policies and increasing corruption in government led to rising poverty and crime, worsening social indicators, and increased political instability.[49]

Economic crises in the 1980s and 1990s led to a political crisis in which hundreds died in the Caracazo riots of 1989, two attempted coups d'état in 1992,[50] and the impeachment of President Carlos Andrés Pérez (re-elected in 1988) for corruption in 1993. Coup leader Hugo Chávez was pardoned in March 1994 by president Rafael Caldera, with a clean slate and his political rights reinstated.

Nothing compared to the mess happening in the present.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/venezuela-supreme-court-grenade-police-helicopter

The Supreme Court was attacked by a cop in a helicopter throwing a grenade that failed to explode.

From the article, what I find most telling:

possible coup going on...armored vehicles heading towards miraflores palace

also the supreme court were attacked by a helicopter lol

Chaos and disaster currently happening. Too many sides and too much confusion at the moment.

PROTESTS, LOOTING, GOV'T OFFICES BURNED IN VENEZUELA

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_PROTESTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-06-27-13-38-13

Chaves was truly a god among men for keeping these animals at bay as long as he did.

Well, Venezuela (along with Zimbabwe) is always the textbook example of a long lasting depressed economy, where it still sits at the same GDP level it had in the 1960s or so. Even before Chávez the country was run by a corrupt tyrants that sacked the country's funds. The main difference with what's happening now is that the other guys would cause havoc in the country side, not the major cities. People there were treated like slaves, it was basically feudalism and the land lords imposed their own laws while they bribed police officers and politicians, and there was all kinds of violence and human rights abuses.

What Maduro has done is bring the chaos, poverty and repression to the middle classes in Caracas, Barquisimeto, San Cristóbal, etc, rather than the peasants living in rural areas. It's not that it's better or worse, because both situations are unforgivable shit, it's that this time the government is bullying people with a higher level of education, tv coverage, and with access to social media and other means that allow a more efficient organization of an opposition movement.