Posted on 01/21/2018 10:12:31 PM PST by Kartographer
On the night of 9 January, for example, a hungry mob took just 30 minutes to pick clean a grocery store in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz. By the time owner Luis Felipe Anatael arrived at the bodega he’d opened five months earlier, the looters had hauled away everything from cold cuts to ketchup to the cash registers.
'We are like a bomb': food riots show Venezuela crisis has gone beyond politics Read more “It makes you want to cry,” said Anatael in a telephone interview. “I think we are headed for chaos.”
Evidence for his prediction can be found in towns and cities across Venezuela that have been hit by an outbreak of looting and mob violence. Angry about empty supermarket shelves and soaring prices, some people are breaking into warehouses, ransacking food trucks and invading outlying farms.
During the first 11 days of January the Venezuelan Observatory for Social Conflict, a Caracas rights group, recorded 107 episodes of looting and several deaths in 19 of Venezuela’s 23 states.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working."
"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty Klingon." Quark from: The Siege of AR-558
[ “I think we are headed for chaos.” ]
Sounds like already there.
Sean Penn, Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama were unavailable for comment.
Communism never works.
All across the U.S.A. college students are being told that Venezuela is an ideal society and any negative news stories are lies.
Yeah, struck me, too. If you’ve got food riots for basis sustenance, you are already there.
Socialism is so grand...it works so well for the little guy.
Only because the "right people" have yet to be put in charge. Once they find the right guy to run it, it'll be the 8th wonder of the world. Trust me.
That’s pretty much what my late 20s to early 30s niece and daughter tell me. 1. It’s not “real” socialism because they don’t have the right people running it yet; and 2. This is all lies being spread by Fox News and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Doesn’t look like has missed many meals
No. They are told it isn’t real socialism, because it is not a social democracy.
We could have socialism and imported diversity if the Left gets their way. That’s a double win by MSNBC/CNN standards.
#1. Quark was talking about Democrats. Nasty critters they are.
We have dodged a bullet for only four years. Had Hillary Barack Clinton been elected we would be further down Venezuela’s road to paradise.
Maduro has a 40" waist. L'il Kim (rocket man) has a 40" waist. Fidel used to. Think back, before Putin...
MSM spin: Maduro has invented a cure for diabetes! Deserves Nobel prize!
Los Muertos Vivientes.
I simply can’t feel sorry for these people. They brought it upon themselves by sitting by and waiting for someone else to fight and remove their corrupt government from power..........for example.........our revolutionary war where the people DID RISE and overcome the British rule. I simply can’t feel sorry for grown adults who will not sacrifice their lives for the freedom of others and their own families. They population has overwhelming numbers that make it possible to overcome their current government but they simply sit there and wring their hands expecting that the U.S. will somehow come in and fix their problems for them. They allowed this to happen and it is up to them to actually do something about it.
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