Every year, Venezuela's socialist government hands out thousands of Christmas presents to the nation's poorest children, including bicycles, Barbie dolls and plastic trucks imported from China.
The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.
By Chris Hedges
ScheerPost.com
The congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on str