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Venezuela supermarket looting leaves one dead, dozens detained
reuters ^
| July 31, 2015
Posted on 07/31/2015 5:17:34 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodshortage; socialism; venezuela
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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.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:17:34 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: Kartographer
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:19:19 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: PROCON
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:23:29 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: PROCON
Evil capitalist pigs! < /s >
To: PROCON
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.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:24:28 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: PROCON
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.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:24:38 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: PROCON
Coming to a theater near us. Poor people; but then they voted in the commies just like we did here.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:25:42 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: PROCON
Yet there are people here who still think that socialism will work if only the “right people” (them) are in charge.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:27:57 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: miss marmelstein
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.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:28:42 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Yes; “We just didn’t get it right this time. Next time we’ll do better if you just vote for us.”
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:31:17 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(FReeping on CRUZ Control)
To: PROCON
To: Blood of Tyrants
The right people are oil rich Scandinavians.
Nobody else.
Not Russians. Not Africans. Not Asians.
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posted on
07/31/2015 5:32:17 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: lurk
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.
To: blam; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip to blam for the heads up.
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posted on
07/31/2015 6:08:07 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: PROCON; Kartographer
20 # rice- $7.76
20# pinto beans-$14.46
At Walmart. Get them before the rush!
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posted on
07/31/2015 6:16:23 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Bogey78O
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posted on
07/31/2015 6:18:49 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: Eagles6
"TERRORIST!!!"
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posted on
07/31/2015 6:20:50 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: KC_Lion; Norm Lenhart; Lazamataz
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posted on
07/31/2015 6:33:00 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
To: PROCON
Which would be same exact excuse
our socialists would use - like they are right now with the Planned Parenthood thing.
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posted on
07/31/2015 6:33:59 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: PROCON
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...
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posted on
07/31/2015 6:39:24 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Psalm 1)
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