Venezuela supermarket looting leaves one dead, dozens detained

reuters ^ | July 31, 2015

[PROCON]

One person was killed and dozens were detained following looting of supermarkets in Venezuela's southeastern city of Ciudad Guayana, the state governor said on Friday, amid the ongoing food shortages in the recession-hit OPEC nation.

Shoppers seeking scarce consumer staples including milk, rice and flour broke into a supermarket warehouse on Friday morning, leading businesses in the area to shut their doors, local newspaper Correo del Caroni reported.

[PROCON]

State governor Francisco Rangel of the ruling Socialist Party said the looting was politically motivated.

No, when people or their children are hungry and there's little food available, they will do whatever it takes to survive.

Liberalism/Socialism/Communism fails every time.

[blam]

Ping.

[lowbridge]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Evil capitalist pigs! < /s >

[Steely Tom]

What, cooking oil is not on the list?

Maybe they learned how to steal transformer oil from electrical substations. Use it to make lovely Empandas.

[lurk]

The story describes the country as being ‘recession-hit’. A gentle term for the strangling action of collectivism.

Obviously what they need is more government control.

[miss marmelstein]

Coming to a theater near us. Poor people; but then they voted in the commies just like we did here.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yet there are people here who still think that socialism will work if only the “right people” (them) are in charge.

[Bogey78O]

Socialism causes a weird condition like a fevered person putting on a heating blanket. They vote for more of it thinking it’ll fix the problems they created.

[PROCON]

Yes; “We just didn’t get it right this time. Next time we’ll do better if you just vote for us.”

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Ain’t utopia just grand?

[Bogey78O]

The right people are oil rich Scandinavians.

Nobody else.

Not Russians. Not Africans. Not Asians.

[marktwain]

And Venezuela is an oil rich socialist country.

The leftist will all explain this as being the fault of the U.S.

You can always come up with a conspiracy theory to explain a failure or a disaster.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

Hat tip to blam for the heads up.

[Eagles6]

20 # rice- $7.76

20# pinto beans-$14.46

At Walmart. Get them before the rush!

[VTenigma]

Not Americans.

[Kartographer]

"TERRORIST!!!"

[TADSLOS]

Wasteland Ping.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Which would be same exact excuse our socialists would use - like they are right now with the Planned Parenthood thing.

 

 

[tflabo]

Big fat mustache stump blames everybody else except his own rotgut chavista style strangulated economic policies. Somethings gotta give and blow when they run out of other peoples money and resources. What a dump they turned Venezuela into...