Food riots grip western Venezuela, mob reportedly slaughters cattle in field

news.trust.org ^ | Friday, 12 January 2018 03:52 GMT | By Anggy Polanco and Francisco Aguilar

[dfwgator]

Burn!

[ArcadeQuarters]

The horses are getting nervous.

[Rebelbase]

“The police and the National Guard tried to control the situation by giving out what was left.””

Hopefully the time is getting closer to when Maduro loses control of his enforcers. Once that happens he’ll be Ceausescu’d

[tumblindice]

Socialism really is a wonderful thing, it just hasn’t been tried yet.
Try using that lefty `truism’ with a crowd of hungry Venezuelans.
Our resident socialists want to bring that misery here through stupid immigration policies. President Trump is stopping them.

[4yearlurker]

"Hungry men don't ask,they take." Sinbad to Kora.

[Mr. Blond]

I have a “modest proposal” in mind. It involves socialist politicians.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[Oatka]

Once had a professor who claimed that once a mineral rich country comes to depend on the export of that mineral ( oil, coal, timber, whatever), inevitably food shortages develop, the price of food increases and there is social unrest and political instability.

The rent-a-rig company I worked for sent me down there back in the '80s. Had to fly from Caracas east 200 miles to Puerto La Cruz. Looking out the window, I mentioned to the guy next to me that there was mostly bush, with little development. He said that the area used to be covered with farms, but everyone left to work in the oil fields, and now Venezuela had to import most of its food.