Posted on 07/29/2016 7:02:04 AM PDT by bkopto
International human rights activists are complaining that new laws have introduced forced labour in Venezuela.
"A new decree establishing that any employee in Venezuela can be effectively made to work in the country's fields as a way to fight the current food crisis is unlawful and effectively amounts to forced labor," Amnesty International said in a statement released on Thursday.
President Nicolás Maduro signed a decree at the end of last week that gives powers to the labor ministry to order "all workers from the public and private sector with enough physical capabilities and technical know-how" to join a government drive aimed at increasing food production.
They can be required to work in the agricultural sector for a 60-day period that can be extended for another 60 days "if the circumstances require it."
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I was wondering when the forced labor camps would begin!
Get a degree in Womyns Studies, get your loan forgiven, then go to work as a sharecropper. There’s your future kids.
A law that Hillary could get behind ...
Slavery is OK, so long as it’s done to bail out socialist policies.
Slouching to Cambodia.
Pol Pot is laughing in hell.
Slavery - now applauded by progressives.
How would you like to be forced to work at gunpoint?
Socialism has its dark side.
Socialism and communism: If you want to eat, you have to work. The free shit stops when they get control.
So we’ve seen Socialism lead to slavery in all but name in China, Russia, North Korea and now Venezuela. I guess this is the Dems endgame — they were the party of slavery once, they will be again.
Chairman Mao speaks Spanish.
A Great Leap Forward!
Smash those kulak horders and wreckers!
Anything else is backward and not contributing to working people.
Any one who opposes this measure is for Wall Street/Big Banks/Corporate Interest.
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
All Power to the people
‘Forced labor’ is the lefts wet dream.
Khmer Rouge?
Venezuela citizens don’t have firearms so their dictator runs the day. This is exactly what the hag will bring to the US once she orders all firearms be confiscated. Or, on the flip side of that scenario, the US citizens will stand their ground.
The descent of socialist societies to despotism and mass slavery seems like a logical necessity to me. Maybe if someone did the math and shared it, people would lose interest in this utopian path to suicide. Maybe not.
The journey from the working fields to the Killing Fields is just a club to the back of the head away.
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