Sunday, January 21, 2018

In Venezuela You Must Loot Or Die From Hunger



The Guardian: 'We loot or we die of hunger': food shortages fuel unrest in Venezuela

As the country’s economic problems mount, towns and cities have been hit by an outbreak of looting and violence

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.

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WNU Editor: As bad as it is now, the anger and hatred that will be focused on the Venezuelan government when this is all over will be worse, and it will last for generations.

More News On The Crisis In Venezuela

Venezuela's economic collapse, by the numbers -- Axios
You can't get $1 out of the bank in Venezuela. I tried. -- CNN
Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440000 Percent -- Bloomberg
Venezuela is trying to float its own cryptocurrency to save a sinking economy—but investors aren't believing the 'petro' hype -- CNBC
Venezuela's woes may give way to future Opec headache -- The National
Why Venezuela Suffers -- Wall Street Journal

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The fruit of Socialism, for all to see, yet fools throughout the west continue to want Socialism.

Anonymous said...

like Bernie Sanders, for example

Anonymous said...

Where is the international community on this? Why don't we see trucks of food coming in? f'ing politicians and dictators.. grr