Hungry Venezuelans Try To Put Maduro On Trial After Recall Referendum FailsBy Mac Slavo There may be pressure, quietly, from the United States, but that doesnt change the fact that the Venezuelan people are eager to be rid of their dictatorial leader and return to some sort of functioning normalcy. When everyone is hungry, there is no quiet. In the latest turn of events, President Maduros government squashed a referendum in the National Assembly to recall him from office but now his opponents are attempting to put him on trial. The measure itself has no chance of passing, but the symbolic gesture is telling enough for a country thats increasingly desperate and uneasy. For the past couple of years, pressure from dropping oil prices has exacerbated a weak and failing socialist system making distribution, infrastructure, electric power and other necessities impossible to maintain. Via Reuters: Venezuelas opposition-led National Assembly in a rowdy session on Sunday pressed to put Nicolas Maduro on trial for violating democracy, days after authorities nixed a recall referendum against the unpopular leftist president. It is a political and legal trial against President Nicolas Maduro to see what responsibility he has The session was briefly interrupted when around 100 apparently pro-government protesters stormed in, brandishing Socialist Party signs and shouting The Assembly will fall! before officials herded them out. The Socialist Party is showing what it has left. There are no ideas or arguments, only violence! said opposition leader and two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles. [] opposition congressmen chanted The people are hungry and want a recall! While Maduro and his loyalistas can stave off opposition for now, it only makes the inevitable more potent. As JFK observed: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. This appears truer than ever in Venezuela. There is every sense that total chaos is coming. Venezuela has since devolved into a nightmare, prompting many of its people perhaps regardless of politics to support his ouster. Maduro has argued that the U.S. is waging economic war against him, and there is truth in the fact that pro-U.S. factions are eager to remove him. Nonetheless, its not an argument to allow him to continue wielding power. Already, Venezuela has reached the point where people must wait in line for hours for their turn to buy goods if they are available. Otherwise, they must rely upon inflated black market prices, and more desperate measures like poaching, robbery and looting. Some Venezuelans have been traveling to the borders of Colombia and Brazil just to purchase food and stock up on necessities that are too hard to find at home. Normal life has been upended, and significant levels of hunger, malnutrition, violence and unrest are taking hold. Many are unhappy with either the ruling socialist party, or with the pro-American opposition who have wielded power in the past on the basis of its oil-rich resources. Most just want security, and an end to hunger. Read more: Click here to subscribe: Join over one million monthly readers and receive breaking news, strategies, ideas and commentary. You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com. A quote from Heavy Metal (1981) Hes nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous Since when are certain democratically elected governments are now becoming dictatorial depending on the whim of the US? My understanding is that Maduro was democratically elected as were Putin, Rouseff, Assad, Hassan Rouhani and the previous president of Ukraine. If the favourablity of these people is low surely there is a few in France and Germany should also not finish out their term if it is okay for Maduro to be ousted? If a new president is put in how will that make things improve as I dont see any great improvement in Ukraine yet after western interference? 