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Hungry Venezuelans killing flamingos and anteaters for food, biologists say
Miami Herald ^ | February 10, 2017 | Gustavo Ocando

Posted on 02/11/2017 2:39:40 PM PST by Zakeet

Biology student Luis Sibira stumbled across the first set of gory remains last November: eight pink flamingos, their breasts and torsos sliced out, leaving their heads, spindly legs and vivid feathers scattered across the marshy ground at Las Peonias Lagoon in western Venezuela.

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There are other signs that food shortages have led to the slaughtering of animals not generally considered meat: giant anteaters, for one. The university investigators - biologists and biology students - say they have kept records to show that dozens of the slow-moving creatures, classified as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, also have been killed for food.

In the city's dump, more evidence of hunger-driven desperation: dismembered dogs, cats, donkeys, horses and pigeons have been found since last year, all skinned or plucked, with signs of having been eaten, according to the city’s garbage teams.

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... scavenging for food has become widespread. People are often seen looking for discarded eggs, cookies, milk, flour, breads, broccoli stems, beet leaves or expired butter, said Campos, a sociologist at Zulia.

For most families, healthy meals are simply out of reach.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animals; communism; famine; food; hunger; hyperinflation; socialism; venezuela; vulnerable
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To: DoughtyOne

They voted for Chavez and Maduro but they corrected their mistake by electing a 2/3 majority of the National Assembly in the last year or so.

Maduro has ignored the legislature and used his packed Supreme Court to invalidate their legislation against him and his policies.

Maduro also ‘has the guns’ at this point, too.


41 posted on 02/11/2017 5:25:26 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

See my #27.

I want to believe that too!


42 posted on 02/11/2017 5:30:23 PM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Nextrush

Thanks for the information. I haven’t followed it closely, only in general terms.


43 posted on 02/11/2017 6:24:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Delta 21
Whats a flamingo dress out to? Red wine? Maybe a port?

A starved flamingo's got to be gamey! What the H do they eat?

44 posted on 02/11/2017 7:03:08 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I read the blogging of Daniel Duquenal which is very bleak and depressing as food and medicine issues seem to worsen.

One possibility that is talked about as Venezuela’s future is refugees beginning to leave the country in larger numbers westward into neighboring Colombia and even through the jungles south into Brazil or eastward into Guyana.

Boat refugees could head for Aruba and Bonaire, the nearby Dutch islands.


45 posted on 02/11/2017 11:00:03 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: piasa

Actually Chavez did not have an financing from Cuba it was quite the other way around Chavez was giving Cuba some 200K barrels of crude oil daily. He did enjoy all of the influence of the subtleties of Cuba’s failed policies.


46 posted on 02/12/2017 6:48:19 AM PST by okie 54
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To: sport

As long as the US has universities packed with Socialism spewing professors we stand a very good chance of ending like Venezuela. Our children are being indoctrinated with socialism and will some day opt for that style of government.


47 posted on 02/12/2017 6:48:19 AM PST by okie 54
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To: okie 54

You are correct. The only question is, will it happen before the muslims take over. And the muslims will take over, they will out breed us. Their women breed like rats and rabbits. Our women kill their babies before birth. It is a matter of numbers.


48 posted on 02/12/2017 6:53:50 AM PST by sport
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To: sport
You are correct. The only question is, will it happen before the muslims take over. And the muslims will take over, they will out breed us.

The title of my next book: "The Womb is a Weapon."

49 posted on 02/12/2017 6:56:23 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Love Trumping Hate" sure involves a lot more assault and arson than I expected.)
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To: Lazamataz

Good. Because I was not original on my thoughts about this. I read it from someone that is smarter than I.


50 posted on 02/12/2017 7:36:45 AM PST by sport
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