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

Reuters ^ | 12 January 2018 | By Anggy Polanco and Francisco Aguilar

[Wally_Kalbacken]

SAN CRISTOBAL/BARINAS, Venezuela, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection center, and a supermarket in Venezuela's western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country. An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, said four people had died and 10 were injured in the chaos over the last two days, but he did not specify the circumstances. Four years of recession and the world's highest inflation have plunged millions of Venezuelans into poverty, and President Nicolas Maduro's authoritarian socialist regime faces mounting unrest.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I'll take some of the yellow, but don't get cheap on me!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Nothing to see here. Danny Glover and Sean Penn said that evil capitalist pigs are to blame.

[Sarah Barracuda]

this sh*thole is a liberals paradise

[Tea Party Terrorist]

They all claim capitalist sabotage, which begs the question of how good is your system if it can be sabotaged so easily.

[Slyfox]

You’d think that Madura and his kids could spare a few bolivars out of their multimillions to buy some food for their people.

[Bonemaker]

“this sh*thole is a liberals paradise”

They should be slaughtering their politicians.

[dfwgator]

They should be slaughtering their politicians.

Bingo!

[cherry]

the communist pigs are living high though....as I understand it, the rich and their friends get all the food they want...

this is what communism is...a system to award the "party" people ...it happens in Russia and ever communist S hole in the world...

its NOT FOR THE WORKERS!

[clearcarbon]

Venezuela is a real-time simulation of the 2018 felony clinton administration economy (obama 2).

[ssfromla]

Exactly what I wish they’d do too.

[dsrtsage]

Feel the Bern

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Four years of recession...have plunged millions of Venezuelans into poverty

Yep. That's all that did it...a pesky four year "recession." It couldn't be anything else.

[Flavious_Maximus]

I want communist to suffer greatly, wherever they are, especially here in the USA.

I feel bad for those Venezuelans who knew what was coming when their idiot countrymen voted for Hugo Chavez.

Socialist, Marxist, leftest, progressives, liberals, whatever you want to call them. They are all one and the same. May they all suffer the same fate.

[libstripper]

I’d like to see them slaughter Maduro and his accomplices. VIVA PINOCHET!!

[Publius]

The trucks and wagons of waiting farmers started trickling blindly down the roads, with no maps, no gas, no feed for the horses -- moving south, south toward the vision of flour mills awaiting them somewhere, with no knowledge of the distances ahead, but with the knowledge of death behind them -- moving, to collapse on the roads, in the gullies, in the breaks of rotted bridges. One farmer was found, half a mile south of the wreck of his truck, lying dead in a ditch, face down, still clutching a sack of wheat on his shoulders.

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Brother, you asked for it!
Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part III (A is A), Chapter V (Their Brothers' Keepers)

[dfwgator]

I want communist to suffer greatly, wherever they are, especially here in the USA.

Where's Tony Montana when you need him?

[notaliberal]

My two cents: What a sh*thole!

[Sasparilla]

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

Would Democrats consider Venezuela a
Sh!t hole?

[lightman]

Socialist sh*thole!

[Trumpnado2016]

All of the zoo animals have been eaten.