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2 hours ago, hornimal said:

non-essential staff and families told to bug out.  this isn't 1979 tehran, the vast majority of venezuelans are pro-USA.

now that the western world and the major latin american powers (f you mexico) are FINALLY backing the opposition, it'll be just a matter of time that the maduro regime self implodes.

happy days are in venezuela again.  meet the new first lady, 26 year old fabi rosales:

 

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Fine as frog hair but would not go down...Heard that they have been out of toilet paper for about 6 months...Damn It!!!!

Get that girl in a shower stat!!!

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This is barely being covered by our media, and it's shameful.  We are about to see either a revolution, or a blood bath, either way, it's deserving of serious scrutiny.  

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And emblematic of the new cold war.  Authoritarian states vs.....not authoritarian states.  And the creeping ideology of authoritarianism making inroads among the opposition (Hungary, far-right moveme

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7 hours ago, Crusher said:

Fine as frog hair but would not go down...Heard that they have been out of toilet paper for about 6 months...Damn It!!!!

Get that girl in a shower stat!!!

it is rumored she's been hiding at an embassy to stay out of reach of maduro's cronies.  that is technically foreign soil, so it's safe to assume she has access to actual hygiene products.

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On 1/24/2019 at 2:55 PM, gecko said:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/one-dead-multiple-injured-after-venezuelan-national-guard-opens-fire-on-opposition-supporters/2019/02/22/09d60f1a-3518-11e9-8375-e3dcf6b68558_story.html?utm_term=.e0bc44eeb984

 

Their government is killing its own people again.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/one-dead-multiple-injured-after-venezuelan-national-guard-opens-fire-on-opposition-supporters/2019/02/22/09d60f1a-3518-11e9-8375-e3dcf6b68558_story.html?utm_term=.e0bc44eeb984

 

Their government is killing its own people again.

How else are they going to rack up those body counts just like every other socialist nation ever has?  Maduro is behind.  Millions have fled, 10s of thousands will die and Bernie Sanders will say he just didn't do socialism right.  Rinse and repeat.

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Starving Venezuelans rummaged through a trash truck this week in a search for food, following Venezuela's collapse due to its socialist policies.

 
 
 
 
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"Amid the increasingly dire situation in Venezuela, Univision's left-leaning anchor Jorge Ramos traveled into the rapidly imploding socialist country for an interview Monday with dictator Nicolas Maduro," The Daily Wire reported. "But after Ramos said he took the conversation in a direction Maduro didn't appreciate, things quickly devolved, resulting in Ramos and his team having all their equipment confiscated and a frightening two-hour encounter with agents."

In a video posted on the "Real American with Jorge Ramos" Facebook page, Ramos "said the last straw for Maduro was when the Mexican-American journalist held up his iPad and showed him footage he had filmed himself of three children on the streets of Venezuela rummaging through the back of a garbage truck for scraps of food," Fox News reported.

"He just couldn't stand it," Ramos said. "He didn't want to continue the interview. He tried to close my iPad. They confiscated all of our cameras, all our videos."

"He didn't like the things we were asking, about the lack of democracy in Venezuela, the torture of political prisoners, about the humanitarian crisis that they are living," Ramos later told Univision. "I told Nicolas Maduro that millions of Venezuelans and many governments in the world do not consider him a legitimate president and they consider him to be a dictator."

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Estas son las imágenes que ⁦@jorgeramosnews⁩ le mostró a Nicolás Maduro y que provocaron que Maduro se levantara de la entrevista,⁩ que retuvieran al equipo de Univision y que confiscaran su trabajo. Esto es lo que Maduro no quiere que vea el mundo.

 
 
 
 
 

Just how bad is the situation inside the socialist nation?

Venezuelans on average have lost 24 lbs. in body weight and approximately almost 90% now live in poverty, according to Reuters, which also notes that "over 60 percent of Venezuelans surveyed said that during the previous three months they had woken up hungry because they did not have enough money to buy food."

Venezuela's economic collapse has led to unthinkable inflation rates, with the socialist nation's consumer prices rising 1,300,000.00+% in 2018, Reuters reported.

"The Venezuelans are so desperate that some have taken to slaughtering flamingos and anteaters for food to eat," The Daily Wire reported. "The study found 65% of respondents said their children skipped school because of food, some even taking their parents' places in the long food lines."

 
  
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"Sometimes we only find the animal’s heads, guts and legs," Robert Linares, a Maracaibo waste disposal worker who works in Venezuela. "We used to see this very little in the past, but this practice is now out of control and on the rise."

Starvation due to the nation's socialist policies has gotten so bad that reports have surfaced of people breaking into zoos to eat the animals since food is often not available in grocery stores. Inflation prices also make food so expensive that people cannot afford what they need.

"Zoo animals are being stolen from parks in western Venezuela and police believe they are being snatched to be eaten by the starving local population," The Daily Mailreported. "A wave of animal thefts in the city of Maracaibo near the Colombian border — including tapirs and a buffalo — have been linked to the chronic food shortages in Venezuela."

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/43992/watch-people-search-garbage-truck-food-socialist-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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This doesn't seem like it will help tensions

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article227175764.html

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Cody Weddle, a freelance reporter who lives in Caracas, Venezuela, has been detained by authorities, according to the National Union of Journalists, SNTP.

In a tweet, the organization said Venezuela’s Military Counterintelligence had raided Weddle’s home early Wednesday and had also detained his Venezuelan colleague Carlos Camacho. The team’s equipment was also seized. The organization said he hadn’t been heard from them since 8 a.m. local time.

Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication said they did not have a record of Weddle’s presence in the country. However, Weddle, early in his career, worked for Telesur, a television station largely financed by the Venezuelan government.

Espacio Publico, a Caracas-based media advocacy group, said it was trying to determine where Weddle might be held and said government officials would not confirm he was in their custody. The organization also said it was highly irregular for Weddle to be detained by the military and not the police.

Weddle’s detention, if confirmed, comes as media groups say there are signs of a broadening crackdown in Venezuela amid heightened political tensions. Espacio Publico has records of at least 49 reporters being briefly detained in January and February. Seven journalists have also been deported this year.

Last month, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and his team were detained for several hours at the presidential palace as they interviewed Nicolás Maduro. They were then deported.

A German reporter, Billy Six, has been in Venezuelan custody since November and Jesús Medina, a Venezuelan reporter who worked with DolarToday website, has been held at a military prison since August 2017.

The Miami Herald’s Latin America correspondent was detained for two days in 2013 and deported in 2016.

Also on Wednesday, Venezuela’s foreign ministry said it was expelling German Ambassador Daniel Kriener after he, along with other diplomats, escorted Guaidó from the international airport Monday back into Caracas, amid fears Guaidó might be arrested.

Weddle’s last story was filed for WPLG about the return to Venezuela of Guaidó on Monday.

 

 

Hopefully this doesn't lead to Trump or Rubio to go off and try some kind of military solution. Keep up the pressure diplomatically and keep supporting Guaido.

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Q:  What did socialists use to light their homes before candles?

A:  Electricity

 

Nerves fray, tempers flare as Venezuela blackout hits fourth day

CARACAS (Reuters) - Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel on Sunday as the country entered a fourth day of a nationwide blackout that has left already-scarce food rotting in shops, homes suffering for lack of water and cell phones without reception.

Authorities have managed to provide only patchy access to power since the outage began on Thursday in what President Nicolas Maduro called an act of U.S.-backed sabotage, but critics insist it is the result of incompetence and corruption.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-enters-fourth-day-blackout-maduro-blames-u-154917299.html

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Venezuelans stunned, pissed as blackout hits fourth day

CARACAS (Reuters) - Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel on Sunday as the country entered a fourth day of a nationwide blackout...

 

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I am honestly surprised that Venezuela keeps descending further and further into chaos and that asshole Maduro ia still in command. In a normal banana republic the asshole would have been removed by the military a long time ago. This dude is like impervious to getting his ass kicked.

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12 hours ago, XYZ said:

I am honestly surprised that Venezuela keeps descending further and further into chaos and that asshole Maduro ia still in command. In a normal banana republic the asshole would have been removed by the military a long time ago. This dude is like impervious to getting his ass kicked.

Venezuela is a single resource economy, but he's not following the banana republic model.  In successful dictatorships, the dictator keeps the military fat and happy no matter what.  Look at North Korea.  They don't even have a banana to exploit.

That being said, I think it is only a matter of time.  The military don't like Maduro nearly as much as they liked Chavez, and he certainly doesn't have as much to give them as Chavez had.

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Don’t avert your gaze progressives and socialist wannabes. You are witnessing the next step in the demise of your socialist utopia. 

First the confiscationof weapons and resources. Then the collapse of financial institutions and rampant inflation. Then civil unrest and starvation. Now it appears the government backed savages have resorted to titty punching. This poor young lady appears to have been an easy target. I knew food was scarce but it appears supportive brazeers are rare as well.  

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found some first hand accounts of how it is there:

https://www.quora.com/Are-people-in-Venezuela-really-starving/answer/Nelson-Agelvis

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Nelson Agelvis
Nelson Agelvis, I am a college professor, consultant and travel expert in Caracas, Venezuela
 
 

Yes!

I'm Venezuelan, I still live in Venezuela, and I study my country. No foreigner knows more about my country than I do, none. To give all international readers some local insight, 90% of the population here is poor now [1], with 65% being in extreme poverty (making less than $0.02 a day, yes, two cents), all this despite that Venezuela was once the richest, most capitalist western democracy in Latin America. Some restaurants are still open and they have patrons, same as some nice shopping malls, some well-stocked supermarkets (even some government ones called CLAP that import American cereals and junk food, and sell them in US dollars) and some nice stores, but all that is for the 10%. The shops that cater to the 90% are mostly in shambles, under-stocked and what they do have is at unaffordable prices for most.

To put things in perspective, most Venezuelans make around 50,000 bolivares a month (minimum wage is Bs 40,000). That's around $8 and it gets you some grains and vegetables. Hamburgers and drinks for two at a nice burger place such as Avila Burger, go for Bs 120,000 ($20). That's over two months of work for most people. The government gives out a monthly food box to its registered followers called CLAP, containing some basic low-quality foods imported from Mexico, Brasil, Turkey, etc. and which have been proven to be a huge source of corruption [2], but to receive it you must register in the socialist party and support it, and that includes a lot of going to rallies, roll call included.

The reason Venezuela is ruined is because the government confiscated over 1000 of the nation's most productive private companies and industries and ran them to the ground. Imagine the US government seizing the S&P 500, the Fortune 500 plus around 10,000 more of the largest companies in the US and ruining them. The induced economic ruin through these land seizures, confiscations, ruinous laws, currency exchange controls, price controls, distribution controls, etc. has made over 10,000 industries out of 12,700 close [3]. Most of the productive remaining industries are owned by people in the government or with government ties. Those industries obtain privileges to operate, and many are simply money-laundering schemes. Of the standard medium and small businesses, out of 830,000 that existed before the current government came along, by 2017 less than 230,000 remained [4]. Today, less than 150,000 remain.

In today’s Venezuela, the Nicolas Maduro government is the biggest commercial/industrial conglomerate and the country’s biggest employer, and its inefficiency has led to the industrial and economic ruin of the nation and the suffering of its people. So yes, most Venezuelans, despite living in a mineral-rich country with the world’s greatest oil reserves, are malnourished…and many are starving.

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[1] Top 10 Facts About Poverty in Venezuela | The Borgen Project

[2] Mexico prosecutors find fraud in Venezuela food aid program

[3] http://www.conindustria.org/down...

[4] Consecomercio: Se perdieron 500.000 empresas en una década

 

 

https://www.quora.com/If-you-own-a-farm-in-Venezuela-how-is-it-faring-under-the-current-kleptocracy/answer/Guillermo-Ferrero

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I share a coffee farm in ownership with my two sisters. It is up on a mountain with streams, wildlife and the most amazing tropical plants and flowers. I devoted years of my life to improving the quality of our coffee and the yield of our crops, diversifying our range of products and the farm was faring well until Chavez’ regime came to power.

Once Chavez’ communist-inspired politics took root, among the many disastrous economic measures the regime adopted was to place price controls on all sorts of produce, to the point where between 2009 and 2011, the last year that we harvested our coffee, we were selling our crops to commercial roasters well below production costs, resulting in mounting losses to the farm and forcing us to dig in our own pockets to make up for the losses and cover payroll expenses.

We always hired migrant workers to harvest the crop, usually a two-month contract between November and January, our harvest season. During the rest of the year, we had about a dozen permanent workers doing maintenance tasks such as pruning, clearing the groves and replacing ageing plants. In 2011, we hired 12 of these workers for the upcoming harvest; soon after, they started protesting and demanding privileges way beyond any contemplated in labor legislation. Then they started stealing equipment and part of the crop, getting drunk on weekends, getting into fights and insulting and abusing the foreman and other workers. By the time the harvest was finished, most of them thankfully left and others remained, squatting in the farm, planting their own crops without regard to property rights and occupying homes destined for the use of the permanent staff.

After that, we decided to abandon the groves, cease operations, we laid off all but a skeleton crew of permanent workers, and essentially abandoned the farming activities, as by then it had become too dangerous to travel to the farm due to the increase in crime, kidnappings and threats to our lives. More recently, the main house at the farm was occupied by “officials” from the local county government who use it as a weekend “retreat” and whose intention is to appropriate the farmland without planting so much as a fruit tree.

All of this is the end product of communist politics, which devastated production, generated unemployment, and deprived the same government that created them of the tax revenues the sale of our coffee produced for it. Ours is but an example of why today food is scarce, medicine impossible to find and even a good cup of coffee has become a luxury. Someday, all of this will imbecile communist ideology will disappear and we will be able to resume production, hire new workers and pay taxes once again to provide services to the community; in the meantime, we have joined the thousands of people who owned productive lands, provided food and jobs and were deprived of the opportunity to work, generate employment and contribute to the country’s productivity. Long live the Revolution!

 

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