Posted on 03/29/2019 6:17:50 AM PDT by C19fan
Walking for hours, making oil lamps, bearing water. For Venezuelans today, suffering under a new nationwide blackout that has lasted days, it's like being thrown back to life centuries ago.
El Avila, a mountain that towers over Caracas, has become a place where families gather with buckets and jugs to fill up with water, wash dishes and scrub clothes. The taps in their homes are dry from lack of electricity to the city's water pumps.
"We're forced to get water from sources that obviously aren't completely hygienic. But it's enough for washing or doing the dishes," said one resident, Manuel Almeida.
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Oh, great! So now we don't have to, and AOC can GTH.
Notice that not one American liberal is going down to Venezuela to live under the leader they so admire.
Great cartoon. Says it all.
Thanks for sharing.
Socialists job is not done until they’re digging up corpses for food and eating each other.
“But it’s enough for washing or doing the dishes,” said one resident, Manuel Almeida.”
Until cholera and typhus break out anyway. And that’s next.
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Keep votin' Commie, Venezuelans, the best is yet to come.
Electricity
Venezuela Goes GREEN, Hollywood Silent.
They’re probably better able to handle extended outages than much of the US would be.
EVERY American cowboy knew that a person should ALWAYS drink UP stream from where the cattle/horses were crossing.
That is a fact, who right now could could live with no power? Most country folk would do fine I think, everyone else is history.
NYC a war zone in less than a week.
In the soviet union, in the 1920s and 1930s, cannibalism was practiced just to stay alive.
They gave up their GUNS and deserve everything they are NOT getting now!
I've been drinking water from a well straight off the river my whole life. Perhaps drinking all that city water filled with chemicals is what makes them continue to vote for Socialists.
I have drank in mountain streams quite often. Of course I did it as you suggest!
Definitely, This may be the case with any burg having more than 500 people. 500 folks might have the initiative to help each other, anymore than that and the predator opportunists are going to start ganging up and exploiting by force.
Nah, not in the small town I grew up in up to and including the ‘burb of 60K I’m in now. The social capital (as well as the capital capital) is pretty good here. I’d give us all the time it would take to work it out—except for likely the warriors reaching us from the war-zone city.
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