Posted on 04/24/2017 7:33:51 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Amnesty International says a new decree in Venezuela that says the government can make any of its citizens farm the country's fields in order to combat its current, punishing food crisis "effectively amounts to forced labour."
"The decree, officially published earlier this week, establishes that people working in public and private companies can be called upon to join state-sponsored organizations specialized in the production of food," Amnesty International reported.
"They will be made to work in the new companies temporarily for a minimum of 60 days after which their 'contracts' will be automatically renewed for an extra 60-day period or they will be allowed to go back to their original jobs."
Venezuela's economy has been in a tailspin since 2014, a year after the death of the architect of the country's decade-plus-long socialist revolution, Hugo Chavez.
His successor, Nicolas Maduro, then took over only to face a swift and brutal decline, turning Venezuela into what economist Steve Hanke calls "the most miserable" country in the world. Aside from a food shortage, the country is also experiencing almost 300% inflation, frequent and violent mass protests, a massive public health crisis, and intense political repression.
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President Trump should immediately airlift 100,000 middle-class and upper middle-class entrepreneurs out of Venezuela into Florida and solidify the Republican base there,
They may end up eating the fat guys...if any are left.
It’ll end in some bad way.
I thought so, too.
Brawndo’s got what plants crave.
Are people in Venezuela white? If not, they’ll have to import some from the US.
Probably the first guys taken from their ‘jobs’ to the fields will be the microwave-popcorn-burners, pen thiefs and tattletales.
Why is the answer always bringing them here?
“This is at least the second time Ive heard about decrees like this in Venezuela. There was definitely a similar one a few months ago...”
i remember that too. i wonder why do they need another one? maybe the first one was ignored? if so, will the second degree be any more effective than the first?
That's pretty much a non-sequitur. Venezuela was once the most prosperous country in South America. They got huge oil reserves, fertile soil that rivals the CA Central Valley, year-round tropical climate with no natural disasters. Marxisms comes in all colors. Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot weren't Africans you know.
No doubt now, that genocide is next down the road.
It’s likely that most of the food went on the black market or was “exported” to Colombia.
Hey, the army has to make money!
That’s one way to curtail office faux pas...
I often tell people, especially around Earth Day, that Paul Erlich...is still at Stanford University, even though nothing he had ever predicted came true. He practically walks on water, they consider him to be the wise sage. So now, they and he will say that Venezuela is PROOF his predictions were true, and all we have to do in America is adopt the Chavez/ Maduro reforms, and millions more will starve.
Creepozoids all.
You forgot Mugabe.
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