Posted on 08/26/2015 8:02:29 AM PDT by grundle
LA SIBUCARA, Venezuela—Hours after they looted and set fire to a National Guard command post in this sun-baked corner of Venezuela earlier this month, a mob infuriated by worsening food shortages rammed trucks into the smoldering edifice, reducing it mostly to rubble.
The incident was just one of numerous violent clashes that have flared in pockets around the country in recent weeks as Venezuelans wait for hours in long supermarket lines for basics like milk and rice. Shortages have made hunger a palpable concern for many Wayuu Indians who live here at the northern tip of Venezuela’s 1,300-mile border with Colombia.
The soldiers had been deployed to stem rampant food smuggling and price speculation, which President Nicolás Maduro blames for triple-digit inflation and scarcity. But after they seize contraband goods, the troops themselves often become targets of increasingly desperate people.
“What’s certain is that we are going very hungry here and the children are suffering a lot,” said María Palma, a 55-year-old grandmother who on a recent blistering hot day had been standing in line at the grocery store since 3 a.m. before walking away empty-handed at midday.
In a national survey, the pollster Consultores 21 found 30% of Venezuelans eating two or fewer meals a day during the second quarter of this year, up from 20% in the first quarter. Around 70% of people in the study also said they had stopped buying some basic food item because it had become unavailable or too expensive.
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Venezuelan military tells customers not to take pictures of empty shelves in supermarkets
...paging Kart!
Bernie Sanders’ vision for America.
Massive shortages and rationing.
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What I find amazing is that, despite a human history strewn with the wreckage of Social experiments, you still have people who believe it leads to a Utopian life. Really? Then move to Venezuela and see what Hugo Chavez has done to a once-prosperous country. Then take a trip to Chile where Allende tried the same Social experiment during the 1970’s and had the same results as Chavez, but Chile threw out Socialism, is shrinking the govt’s size, and is now one of the most prosperous countries in SA. Hmmm...perhaps a lesson stupid Liberals in this country might learn.
Sounds like a Bernie Sanders ad
The shelves aren’t really empty.
It’s a supermarket for “Airatarians”.
Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, the late president’s second-oldest daughter, holds assets in American and Andorran banks totaling almost $4.2billion, Diario las Americas reports.
Think of the bright side. No childhood obesity.
Obama gunna pay my mortgage and gets me my groceries.
I’m taking up a collection of used sandpaper to send to the lovely commies down there to use as toilet paper.
#ROUGHRIDEFORCOMMIES.
Socialism always works... NEXT time.
They’re just not doing it right THIS time.
Socialist governments murdered over 100 million people in the 20th century. Think what they could have accomplished if only the right people had been in charge!
Send every college professor in the U.S. To spend a year in Venezuela or North Korea.
Well, if you define "Utopian" as equal poverty, misery, and starvation, (except for the elite rulers), the Democrat/Socialists/Communists have it down. The Venezuelans have achieved income equality and lifestyle equality. No one has anything.
Great post BTW.
Preppers’ Ping!!
Hat tip to Mich Patriot for the heads up!!
Its coming to America.
A thread yesterday talked about triggers for SHTF. One FReeper mentioned looting. Not for fun but rather food.
Buy distilled water rather than drinking water. It keeps longer.
Yea, verily yea.
Another victory for communism.
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