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We want food!: Venezuelans cry at protest near presidency
DNA India ^ | June 3, 2016 | Reuters

Posted on 06/03/2016 10:20:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Venezuela's economic chaos, critics say is the consequence of failed socialist policies for the last 17 years, especially price and currency controls.

Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near Caracas' presidential palace on Thursday, the latest street violence in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.

Hundreds of angry Venezuelans heading towards Miraflores palace in downtown Caracas were met by National Guard troops and police who blocked a major road. President Nicolas Maduro, under intense pressure over a worsening economic crisis in the South American nation of 30 million, had been scheduled to address a rally of indigenous groups nearby around the same time.

The protest spilled out of long lines at shops in the area, witnesses said, after some people tried to hijack a food truck. "I've been here since eight in the morning. There's no more food in the shops and supermarkets," one woman told pro-opposition broadcaster Vivoplay. "We're hungry and tired."(continued)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crisis; democrat; famine; feelthebern; hugochavezlegacy; hunger; socialism; thesocialistway; tyranny; utopia; venezuela
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We want food!: Venezuelans cry at protest near presidency

Feelin' the Bern are they?

41 posted on 06/03/2016 11:56:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: rightwingcrazy

Exactly.
They ought to rise up against the elites - sooner the better for them


42 posted on 06/03/2016 12:00:53 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: joshua c
Chile is the exception and had spectacular results but even now they are shifting left again.

Remember, Pinochet had to kill several thousand Communists, and upwards of 200K fled the country, in order to settle things down enough for the economy to work.

With Venezuela, they don't have the ability to feed their underclass at current oil prices, so they will have to either export them or kill them.

43 posted on 06/03/2016 12:06:24 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Want food?

Find the guy responsible for the mess and eliminate him. Problem solved.


44 posted on 06/03/2016 12:11:33 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will they blame it on American imperialism?


45 posted on 06/03/2016 12:41:14 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: JudyinCanada

“I’m surprised Obama isn’t flying them all in as refugees.”

Good grief, don’t give that commie loving president any ideas. We have enough problems. But I do wish all those who love Bernie and Hillary would take a good look at Venezuela and what socialism brings, misery to all.


46 posted on 06/03/2016 1:02:43 PM PDT by kagnew
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To: Moonman62

Only when the lower socialists suffer and “revolt” will their “betters” feel pain.


47 posted on 06/03/2016 1:07:15 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No. No deriver to Venezuera. No prace south of 39th. street.


48 posted on 06/03/2016 1:29:05 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lurk

“they’re all 50 lbs above”

They probably finished eating up the skinny ones.


49 posted on 06/03/2016 1:54:57 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: lurk

“The protestors in the pic are yelling for food, but they’re all 50 lbs above healthy body mass.”

I noticed that too.


50 posted on 06/03/2016 3:36:04 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: RummyChick

“Did it ever get this bad when Chavez was leading the country?”

No.

1. Oil prices were still high enough then to prop up their give-aways.

2. Their main hydro-electric reservoir wasn’t nearly empty then.

3. Massive government/crony corruption hadn’t progressed to anywhere near to the degree it is now.

4. “Nationalization” (theft) of essentially all private industry, farmland, and wholesale and retail stores hadn’t yet occurred.

5. Economically insane price controls had not yet been imposed, thus causing inflation to soon run around a couple of thousand percent a year.

6. The oil fields hadn’t yet been fully “nationalized” (stolen)

7. Chavez was still paying foreign oil service companies for their services, so they were still operating the “nationalized” oil fields.

8. Chavez was till paying foreign suppliers for their goods, goods which essentially make up about 99% of everything consumed or utilized in Venezuela.

Former bus-driver Maduro makes Hugo Chavez look like a Nobel Prize winning economic genius.


51 posted on 06/03/2016 3:47:16 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: lurk

Fat people get very hungry very quickly when their food is cut off.


52 posted on 06/03/2016 6:54:02 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: RipSawyer

Weaning off of high carbs is like trying to get off of heroin.


53 posted on 06/03/2016 6:58:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

They need the Greeks to come in and set up shop.


54 posted on 06/03/2016 7:04:10 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Uversabound

Send them Sean Penn to save the day!!!


55 posted on 06/03/2016 7:10:43 PM PDT by Enchante (Shrillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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To: eyeamok

Just what I was thinking. Better yet — they are all millionaires — why can’t they kick in some of that capitalist money and buy food for their fellow travelers??


56 posted on 06/03/2016 7:17:24 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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