Venezuela: Socialist leader arms 400,000 supporters after disarming civilians

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  • Jim12

    Let Freedom Ring
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    Jan 30, 2013
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    DJT is in NYC for the UN meeting, and tonight is hosting dinner for Latin American leaders. He's starting dinner with a statement to the leaders about the evils of Maduro and the suffering Venezuelans, asking all those present to help restore democracy and freedom in Venezuela, sooner rather than later.

    High energy DJT, the guy works 24/7.
     

    Jim12

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    Maduro responded to Trump's UN speech today, calling Trump the Hitler of international politics. lol. The irony.

    Vanessa Neumann, Asymmetrica President, was pleased with Trump's speech with just one criticism: Trump forgot to refer to Maduro's kleptocratic regime as part of a drug cartel, too. She said Maduro's exit is already being negotiated and she hopes he'll be out by the end of the year.
     

    Jim12

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    Jan 30, 2013
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    Maduro has directed his military to prepare for war with the United States.

    Meanwhile, Maduro's military is reported to be discussing "regime change" among themselves. :innocent0
     

    Jim12

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    FBN reporting that the Venezuelan government has killed 8,292 people.

    Ha. Pikers. Castro, Mao, and Stalin could do that in days, if not hours.
     

    CrazySanMan

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    Mar 4, 2013
    11,390
    Colorful Colorado
    'We loot or we die of hunger': food shortages fuel unrest in Venezuela
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/21/venezuela-looting-violence-food-shortages

    Amid desperate food shortages Venezuelans are picking up new survival skills.

    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.

    “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.

    But the figures don’t fully capture the level of desperation. Recent headlines from Venezuela read like notes from the apocalypse:

    • On Margarita Island dozens of people waded into the ocean and forced their way aboard a fishing boat, making off with its catch of sardines
    • In the city of Maracay, just west of Caracas, thieves broke into a veterinary school, stole two pregnant thoroughbred horses and slaughtered them for meat.
    • A recent video from the western state of Mérida shows a group of people cornering a cow before stoning it to death as bystanders yell: “The people are hungry!”

    There have been previous incidents of looting but analysts fear that the current wave could linger amid the Venezuela’s economic freefall.

    President Nicolás Maduro blames the country’s woes on an “economic war” against his government by rightwingers and foreign interests.

    But his critics say his government has disrupted domestic food production by expropriating farms and factories. Meanwhile, price controls designed to make food more widely available to poorer people have had the opposite effect: many prices have been set below the cost of production, forcing food producers out of business.

    Isn't socialism great?
     

    MigraineMan

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    Jun 9, 2011
    19,109
    Frederick County
    President Nicolás Maduro blames the country’s woes on an “economic war” against his government by rightwingers and foreign interests.

    Of course he does.

    Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I have heard that exact line of reasoning from one of the major political parties here in the US! Imagine that!
     

    pcfixer

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    May 24, 2009
    5,947
    Marylandstan
    This is the reason progressive socialism will not work in the US & I will Never, Never give any of my firearms or ammunition.

    OH.!! backup is a Sig Saur P220
     
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    CrazySanMan

    2013'er
    Mar 4, 2013
    11,390
    Colorful Colorado
    Coincidence?

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