Posted on 03/01/2018 7:03:44 AM PST by blam
The newspaper highlights a growing stray dog problem plaguing the streets of Venezuela’s cities this week, triggered by impoverished residents unable to afford dog food and vaccines releasing their animals into the wild.
Most of the dogs are starving and taking over garbage-lined street corners, blocking Venezuelans who scavenge for their own food there. Stray dogs were already a problem in major cities, and reports from as far back as 2016 indicate that the nation’s poorest hunt and eat these dogs. In January, a non-governmental organization (NGO) found that many Venezuelans, unable to afford food for themselves anymore, were buying dog food to feed their families.
El Nacional cites a local NGO, the Canine Support Network (RAC), as finding a sharp spike in the number of pet abandonments documented in the past two years.
“Unfortunately, we see ourselves immersed in this difficult economic crossroads and there are people who, perhaps against their will, see themselves in the difficult situation of abandoning their pet,” Moisés González, who helps direct the group’s spay and neuter efforts, told the newspaper. “I would say we found a 100 percent increase in the number of people who write to us because they can no longer have their pets because they are leaving the country or they don’t have the resources [to feed it].”
El Nacional documents the amount of money it takes to keep a dog in the country. A kilo of dog food, it notes, costs between $0.44 (95,000 bolivares) and $1.40 (300,000 bolivares); the newspaper suggests this amount of food lasts two to three days. A vaccine for a dog could cost as much as $2,327.15 (five million bolivares). The government-mandated monthly minimum wage currently stands at $1.15, according to the exchange rate at currency monitor Dolar Today.
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Another socialist shithole.
Another Marxist Worker’s Paradise. That they embrace Marxism, and think Karl Marx was a genius, is all you need to know about how unintellectual ‘intellectuals’ are.
But wait! That is not “real” socialism. We could do it better here! Pay no attention to history.
Meanwhile the sale of Che Guevara T shirts remains constant
Socialism Stokes Shortages.
Marxism Means Malnourishment.
Famine Follows Fascism.
OMG!! Rescue and feed the dogs- let the ignorant socialists starve!
This was once a thriving capitalist country...an oil producer.
So what we have here is another great, insane, lib, socialist RATopia.
This is what the libs want for the USA.
We should crate up the RATs and send there to “help out”.....send ALL of em.
Starving people and animals under socialism?
Its not a mistake or a flaw - its a design feature.
In Venezuela, its working exactly as intended.
“But wait! That is not “real” socialism. We could do it better here! Pay no attention to history.”
Well, at least most of the people are ‘equal’ (’leaders’ excluded). Suffering is so much better when you do it together.
No, it’s the jewel of the Socialists. That’s what we were told!!
Wonder how much seeds cost? Can they walk to the outskirts of these cities and grow their own food? Might be some fruit trees in the countryside, wild berries. Fish in the streams. Better than starving.
What a terrible situation for them. I hope many try to leave.
What a shame! It never had to come to this for those people.
Giving other peoples money away is all fun and games, until other peoples money run out!!!
Sad that good people down there will be swept up in this with all the low life scum that caused this.
turd world country
Exactly! The only reason socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried is because “the right leaders” have not been in charge of it yet...
And the Venezuelans will again vote for the communist, thus giving themselves a guaranteed route to starvation.
Ignorant as they are this is what the American Left is striving for “The route may be somewhat different and a little longer but the destination is always the same”
And with Gun Bans there implemented by Hugo Chavez years ago and still in effect today - the citizens have no way to fight back against a tyrannical government.
This is modern day example of why the 2nd Amendment exists and needs to be protected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela
2nd highest crime rate in the world per the UN, I’d see those lists of the worse cities for murder and would see Caracas on it, I didn’t understand why. It’s been going on, since at least when Hugo Chavez took power. <-— Chart shows it accelerated then.
Margaret Thatcher said the Socialism works until, "They Run Out Of Other Peoples Money."
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