Saturday, May 11, 2019

Foreign Digest: Italy, Venezuela and South Africa


Italy
            The Italian Parliament approved a measure to restore the educational requirement of civics in its schools.

            An Italian high court ruled that two males cannot be registered as the parents of a baby.  Only the biological parent may be registered as a parent.

            The Interior Secretary announced that he will be closing all of Italy’s cannabis shops because they are misleading people.

Venezuela      
After Venezuela revoked immunity for eight national legislators of the democratic opposition for alleged ties to the attempted coup earlier this month, Italy gave sanctuary to two of them in its Embassy.  Another democratic opposition member of the national assembly has fled to Colombia.  He is the founder of the same party as assembly leader Juan Guaido and former presidential candidate Leopoldo Lopez, who took sanctuary in the Spanish Embassy last week after being freed by the opposition from house arrest, as I had posted about.

            The Vice President has been arrested by the tyrannical Socialist regime last week.  He is part of the government proclaimed by Guaido, who had invoked a constitutional provision to declare himself president because the dictatorship had supplanted the assembly and does not permit certain freedoms and free elections.  Guaido called for more mass protests today, which are typically met by the regime with arrests and even violence, as I have been posting. The Socialists came to power democratically in 2002, but became authoritarian and have plunged the prosperous country into abject poverty, with rampant corruption, crime and energy shortages.

South Africa
           The Marxist-oriented ruling African National Congress suffered its worst showing ever in the South African parliamentary elections, earning only 57% of the votes because of corruption, poverty and inequality, despite being the wealthiest African State; it had never received less than 60%.  The previous president had been forced from office by the ANC because of corruption.

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