So Venezuela is sending their best? Joe Biden is importing the Caracas slums into the U.S., through his open border
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American Thinker ^
| 10/30/2023 | Monica Showalter
Back in 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump took a lot of flak for saying "Mexico is not sending their best" in reference to those crossing into the U.S. illegally based on then-President Obama's nearly open border. Today,
it's Joe Biden's open border and millions have entered illegally. Mexico not sending their best? Now it's Venezuela, where it comes to light that we are literally importing the Caracas slums into our country. According to the Daily Mail:Henchmen for Venezuela's dictator and many of the South American country's worst criminals have crossed over the US border and are now causing chaos in major...
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Venezuela: intense gun battles rage in Caracas between gangs and police
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The Guardian ^
Heavily armed criminal groups have moved in the past month to residential and commercial areas from slums in the city’s hills, and violence has exploded over the past 24 hours with firefights breaking out in at least five populous neighborhoods. President
Nicolás Maduro’s government has not mentioned any casualties as a result of the clashes. Human rights activists in the area have said at least four civilians were killed on Wednesday and half a dozen have been wounded. The gangs want to control one of the main corridors linking the capital with the west of the country, said a human...
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Garbage- and graffiti-strewn Portland upchucks at offered federal help; They'd rather their Caracas-like city be left to fester
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American Thinker ^
| 07/18/2020 | Monica Showalter
Oregon's city of Portland is looking more like Caracas, Venezuela by the day, not just in its Marxist ideology, but in its moral rot and physical shambles. John
Hinderaker at Power Line noted a few days ago that he had until recently taken comfort in knowing that his home city of Minneapolis wasn't the worst-run city in America, because of Portland. But now the blue-city shambles is taking another turn - Portland's leaders are openly screaming for federal law enforcement coming in to protect federal property, such as courthouses, to leave the burning garbage dump that is their city. They'd...
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Philippines’ Samantha Lo missing at Miss Grand International 2019 welcoming in Caracas, Venezuela
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ConanDaily ^
| 10/16/19 | J. Estevez
FROM ME: Social Media has been reporting today that Miss Philippines, Samantha Lo, is really a US Citizen and was trying to travel from France to Venezuela with a FAKE Filipino passport. ARTICLE:
The 2019 Miss Grand International held its welcome ceremony and press conference with its official candidates at TELEVEN TV Station in Caracas, Venezuela on October 15, 2019. Filipino beauty pageants were worried why Samantha Ashley Lo, 26, of the Philippines was not among the candidates who participated in the event. Neither Miss Grand International nor Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Incorporated has released a statement about Lo’s absence. According...
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WATCH: Venezuela military armored truck rams into pro-Guaidó protesters in Caracas
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CBS News Twitter ^
| 4-30-2019 | CBS News
WATCH: Venezuela military armored truck rams into pro-Guaidó protesters in Caracas
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Mystery arrival of Russia jumbo jet to Caracas fuels rumors Maduro looking to relocate gold reserves
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Japan Times ^
| 31 January 2019 | AP Staff
<p>CARACAS - The surprise arrival of a giant Russian passenger plane to Venezuela amid a wave of anti-government unrest is fueling intrigue on social media and charges by the opposition that President Nicolas Maduro’s administration is looking to shuttle abroad what’s left of the country’s depleted gold reserves.</p>
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HOLY MOLY – Check Out This Video of Downtown Caracas Happening Right Now!
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Citizen Free Press ^
Katie Hopkins just tweeted this clip of downtown Caracas right now. Venezuela
is getting out of control quickly. https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/108
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Caracas Spring? Not so fast, Venezuela's armed forces say
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www.reuters.com ^
| 01/23/2019 | Brian Ellsworth, Mayela Armas
CARACAS - Buoyed by a telegenic new congressional chief, Venezuela’s opposition is daring to hope that President Nicolas Maduro’s days in office could be numbered, but the unpopular leader’s bedrock base - the armed forces - shows few signs of erosion. Opposition
sympathizers, rallying around opposition leader Juan Guaido, are holding open air town-hall meetings that buzz with excitement about the legislature’s recent challenges to the legitimacy of Maduro, who this month began a new term widely slammed as illegitimate. Bolstered by the United States and numerous Latin American neighbors promising to back the opposition in seeking a transition, the...
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The joy of socialism, directly from Caracas, Venezuela
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powdered wig society ^
| May 22, 2018 | Thomas Madison
VIDEO: The joy of socialism, directly from Caracas, Venezuela where the people have just enough energy left to revolt Why is the mainstream media not covering this? Oh,
that's right, I forgot. They are all wicked disciples and sycophants of Hitlery Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Barack Hussein, raging socialists all. Following is video sent to me by Powdered Wig reader Martin Jr Yunker who received it from relatives in South America. I posted this video to Bernie Sanders' facebook page in response to a bitchy post whining about Jeff Bezos' wealth. I posted it with the following message…. "Then, by...
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Caracas shops mobbed as Venezuela's Maduro forces price cuts
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Reuters ^
| January 6, 2018 / 8:43 AM | Alexandra Ulmer
Mobs gathered outside some Caracas supermarkets on Saturday after the government ordered shops to slash prices, creating chaos as desperate Venezuelans leapt at the chance to buy cheaper food as the country’s worsening economy causes severe shortages.
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I Have Seen London’s Future and It Is Caracas
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Law and Liberty ^
| 14 Dec 2017 | Theodore Dalrymple
Important (for good or evil) as Brexit may be to the future of Britain, it is not without its importance for the European Union. Indeed, it was always essential for the Union that Britain’s departure should be an economic disaster for Britain: for if it were not, why have a union at
all? It was therefore entirely predictable that the Union should drive a hard bargain with Britain, even a bargain economically harmful to itself, provided only that it was worse for Britain: for the self-preservation of the European political class is at stake. In the European Union politics always...
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Eyewitness in Caracas, from Venezuela's Mother of all Marches
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American Thinker ^
| April 24, 2017 | Monica Showalter
Venezuela's gargantuan marches against the failed socialist tyranny of Nicolas Maduro have gone on low-boil now, but it's worth looking at a good eyewitness report to see how the Mother of all Marches went on the ground. Blogger
Daniel in Venezuela has an excellent account, complete with photos and YouTube videos he shot himself, showing and describing the experience up close and personal. It all started fairly normal. walking down El Cafetal and Chuao until arriving at the Caracas small airport, La Carlota. Still, things felt different, quite a stream of people even though already a lot of people had...
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Colombia's Largest Airline Cancels Flights to Caracas
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NBC Miami ^
Colombia's flagship airline has grounded all flights to Caracas after a mid-air intercept of one of its planes by Venezuela's air force. Avianca
said that it's also rerouting several flights to Europe to avoid Venezuelan air space until further notice. ``We're waiting for them to guarantee the security conditions required to operate,'' Avianca spokeswoman Gilma Usuga told The Associated Press. The incident took place on a Bogota-bound flight that departed from Madrid. The Boeing 787 was flying at a high altitude near Venezuela's western border with Colombia when at 7:10 p.m. local time (00:10 GMT) on Friday another aircraft was...
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Venezuela crisis: Caracas hospital shows sorry state of health system
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BBC ^
| 10/8/2016 | Julian Keane
Asked if children are dying because of political mismanagement and corruption, Maritza Landaeta sighs wearily and, with an air of resignation, says: "Yes."
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The Fracas From Caracas
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American Thinker ^
| October 2, 2016 | Clarice Feldman
Sandra Fluke's plaintive moaning (to advance the Democrats' plan to shove Obamacare down our gullets) about the difficulties college girls have trying to pay for contraceptives ran its course. Indeed,
Obamacare itself is on its last legs. Like Cindy Sheehan, Fluke’s now on the back shelf in the left’s propaganda storage room. The Clinton team searched for someone new -- this time to push its stale Republicans-are-misogynists theme and settled upon Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe from Venezuela. Since summer they’ve been grooming her for this starring role in a Clinton campaign lacking in appealing issues. Without apparently vetting...
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Venezuela opposition aims to flood Caracas in anti-Maduro protest
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Reuters ^
| 9/1/2016 | Andrew Cawthorne, Daniel Kai
White-clad opposition supporters from all corners of Venezuela were descending on Caracas on Thursday for rallies intended to press for a recall referendum this year against unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro. With protestors coming in from the Amazon jungle to the western Andes, the opposition hopes a million people will gather in
a show of anger at Maduro and Venezuela's deep economic crisis. Maduro, 53, says the opposition-dubbed "Takeover of Caracas", disguises a US-fomented coup plan, akin to a short-lived 2002 putsch against his mentor and predecessor Hugo Chavez. Edgy authorities arrested some well-known activists in the run-up, with 13...
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Away from Caracas, shortages even worse in Venezuela
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AFP via Yahoo News ^
| 8/17/15 | Away from Caracas, shortages even worse in Venezuela
All the lady wanted was some chicken. But
in shortage-plagued Venezuela, she waited in line five hours, only to go home empty-handed. "I got here at 5:30 am and came away with nothing! It is just not fair that you have to work so hard -- and then put up with these lines," said an exasperated Lileana Diaz, a 49-year-old receptionist at a hospital emergency room. Venezuelans have been enduring shortages of the most basic goods, such as toilet paper, for more than a year.
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Caracas, Venezuela 2015: Living in one of the world's most dangerous cities
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American Thinker ^
| 06/09/2015 | Silvio Canto Jr.
How do you jog, take an evening walk, or go to the movies in one of the world's most dangerous cities?  The answer is that you do it and take the risk, as we see in this NY Times article about Caracas: Twice a week, Mariela Virguez ventures out for
an evening ride with a cycling group that scales the hills of El Hatillo, a colonial-era district in the south that has seen a rash of kidnappings. "I refuse to give this up just because of the situation in this country," said the 50-year-old computer engineer. "We don't have food,...
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Worriedly nonplussed in Caracas
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Daniel Venezuela Blogspot ^
| 2/19/15 | Daniel
The regime tonight has crossed one of those big, sloppy, obvious, dangerous red lines tonight. The
kind of crossing from where there might not be a return point. Not that I am picky on that, as far as I am concerned that red line was crossed when RCTV was closed. But I digress. Yet, arresting the mayor of Caracas, the highest recipient of votes in the country after the presidential vote, a reelected mayor, and well reelected at that in spite of all the bias in favor of the regime's candidate who was then named as a sabotaging shadow mayor...
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Caracas Mayor Arrested on Sedition Accusation, Plunging Venezuela into New Crisis
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NYT ^
| 2/20/15 | GIRISH GUPTA and FRANCES ROBLES
A new political crisis convulsed Venezuela on Friday over the arrest of the Caracas mayor, one of the country's top opposition figures, accused by President Nicolás Maduro of abetting what he called an American plot to overthrow the government. Supporters
of the mayor, Antonio Ledezma, quickly mobilized protests over his arrest — which they called a kidnapping — which was carried out without warning Thursday night. Human Rights Watch and other advocacy groups demanded Mr. Ledezma's release, and hundreds of demonstrators gathered in a Caracas plaza to protest. But Mr. Maduro, whose administration has been roiled by an increasingly dire...
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