[SkyDancer]

Also: It’s reminiscent of Paris in the 1860’s where people would line up at a sewer to catch rats to eat; one person gets their rat and leaves and the line moved up.

[Prospero]

Also: It’s reminiscent of Paris in the 1860’s where people would line up at a sewer to catch rats to eat; one person gets their rat and leaves and the line moved up.

The siege, after the fall of Sedan, the surrender of Napoleon III, and just before the Paris Commune, c. 1870-1871.

I was thinking pretty much the same thing.

If there were any intellectual elite among the really low-class revolutionaries among the Chavismo. There really would be a chance of a suicidal commune, a Shining Path, coming to power before "the opposition" had a chance to consolidate a new government. With the Cubans on the scene, this is likely to get very nasty before it gets better.

[UCANSEE2]

It’s reminiscent of Paris in the 1860’s where people would line up at a sewer to catch rats to eat; one person gets their rat and leaves and the line moved up.

It is almost impossible for me to imagine being in such a position.