El Presidente (for life?) first grabbed the guns (suppressing dissent is easy if only your supporters have guns), and then paid off those who supported him:
... my friend from Venezuela manages a factory, and told me 8 years ago Chavez made a law that you cannot fire anyone who makes 3-times minimum wage or less. So he has some employees who literally do nothing, and he can't fire them. Another one had a night shift and caused a lot of problems, so they put him on the day shift so they could better supervise him; he went to the department of labor to complain, and now my friend has to hire a lawyer to deal with this.
Anything prohibiting giving the trouble employee a raise to a wage above the minimum, then firing him?
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