Posted on 12/13/2016 10:32:43 AM PST by PJ-Comix
President Nicolas Maduro announced Monday night that he's closing the country's border with Colombia for 72 hours as Venezuelans rush to exchange bills before they become invalid later this week. He accused "mafias" of moving Venezuelan money into Colombia.
It's the latest twist in a crisis that symbolizes Venezuela's severe economic depression, which is having a brutal impact on its citizens' lives.
The Venezuelan government said in a statement that shutting the border with Colombia was necessary "to counteract the criminal attacks against our currency."
Some Venezuelans are going to border towns in Colombia to exchange their currency, the bolivar, for U.S. dollars or to spend their money -- while they still can -- in Colombia where food, toiletries and other basics are plentiful.
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I was just on the phone with her telling her this news and that she was lucky she didn't go this month because she would have been stranded in Venezuela. Just because the thug in charge says the border will only be closed for 72 hours doesn't mean it will happen that way. Don't be too surprised to see the border closed for months or longer.
An armed person is a citizen
An unarmed person is a subject.
Yeah, well Hugo Chavez outlawed guns years ago and ordered they be turned in.
She could have always just driven across the Guajira from Maracaibo to Maicao to Riohacha to Santa Marta like in the old days I did
Sin papeles
Cucuta used to really back up at the border during political times
In my day ...80s....though it was Colombia that was the issue
Venezuela was pretty civilized then
And no a woman should never ever transit the areas I mentioned without serious escort
The gates are closing on the prison camp.
Venezuela is done. Finished. Your wife is very lucky
Who in hell would take them?..................
And at what rate!
I predict war between these two nations—Cuba will become involved as well.
Don’t they have a shortage of toilet paper in Venezuela?................
What makes you think that they are not already?
What makes you think that they are not already?
The Colombian army is a veteran force hardened by years of combat with insurgents. When was the last time a Venezuelan soldier shot at someone who could shoot back? No way Maduro would risk this, he needs the soldiers at home to keep the population docile. As for Cuba, I doubt it has the means to project military power any longer.
Ain’t socialism wonderful, Bernie?
5.56mm
Closing the border will help. To make people more desperate.
That’s the point.
If Maduro can build a wall, why can’t we?
“We gotta keep out all those parasitic Colombians from moving to the workers socialist paradise of Venezuela”
This is a most insane statement by Maduro. The Vendors and sellers on the Colombian side of the border will not deal with the now almost worthless Bolivar of Venezuela. They will only deal with it at a huge discount and change their money to real currency the same day. They know that tomorrow it may be worthless.
Your wife is extremely fortunate. Close calls don’t get that much closer.
One missionary organization I can’t name made sure everyone they sent into the field had a motorcycle, some tools and gave them training on the QT how to build and fly an ultralight so that they had some kind of a prayer of self-rescue if the local tyrant sealed the borders or something equally bad happened.
Problem with that was you could carry 2 people and their clothes at most - and only then if neither of you was fat. And providing parachutes was almost always out of the question.
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