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Venezuelans pick through trash for food to eat or sell
AP ^ | June 8, 2016 | Fabiola Sanchez

Posted on 06/08/2016 5:58:45 AM PDT by C19fan

Until recently, Julio Noguera worked at a bakery. But he now spends his evenings searching through the garbage for food.

"I come here looking for food because if I didn't, I'd starve to death," Noguera said as he sorted through a pile of moldy potatoes. "With things like they are, no one helps anyone and no one gives away meals."

Across town, unemployed people converge every dusk at a trash heap on a downtown Caracas sidewalk to pick through rotten fruit and vegetables tossed out by nearby shops. They are frequently joined by small business owners, college students and pensioners — people who consider themselves middle class even though their living standards have long ago been pulverized by triple-digit inflation, food shortages and a collapsing currency.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Cuba; Russia
KEYWORDS: cuba; feelthebern; hugochavez; julionoguera; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; socialism; venezuela
Feelin' the Bern!
1 posted on 06/08/2016 5:58:45 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

"Hang on! They just didn't put the right people in charge of things!"


2 posted on 06/08/2016 6:00:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: C19fan

Shades of Clinton, Sanders, Obama & the Democrat Party!!!


3 posted on 06/08/2016 6:01:21 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: C19fan

The Chocolate Ration has been increased from 25 Grams to 20!


4 posted on 06/08/2016 6:04:08 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Yep. When government becomes the solution the problem grows out of control. If government is the solution to poverty it will create more poverty to justify and expand its power.


5 posted on 06/08/2016 6:04:20 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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To: COBOL2Java

6 posted on 06/08/2016 6:06:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

7 posted on 06/08/2016 6:07:28 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: C19fan

“With things like they are, no one helps anyone and no one gives away meals.”

Communism destroys charity and volunteer giving. Now everyone expects government to help them in their time of need. What exactly is government? It is made up of mostly corrupt party apparatchiks who care nothing about the people and only about their own jobs.

Enjoy your socialism Venezuela. I will be prepared when it come here.


8 posted on 06/08/2016 6:11:13 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Flavious_Maximus

What is Maduro waiting for?
The path is well known.

Empty the cities, send them to help the farmer/peasants.
Crush everything ‘bourgeois’.

That’s the ticket!

Fat ass bus driver, get with it!


9 posted on 06/08/2016 6:26:57 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: C19fan

Solient Green for sale! All you can eat one low price! Your dignity, your soul, and of course your freedom.


10 posted on 06/08/2016 6:39:18 AM PDT by TonyM
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-—Until recently, Julio Noguera worked at a bakery.-—

Yes, yes...but did Mr. Noguera bake wedding cakes for homosexual weddings?


11 posted on 06/08/2016 7:13:03 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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