Posted on 03/11/2019 11:33:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Full Headline: Looters take to Venezuela's streets as blackout enters its FIFTH day killing 15 kidney patients as under-pressure president Maduro claims the power cut was caused by an 'imperialist' electromagnetic attack from the US
Pictures reveal that some supermarkets in the capital have been left ransacked by desperate residents as they struggle to find food.
Security forces detained a number of people who were caught looting on Sunday, with some pictures showing looters being piled onto waiting trucks.
Armed men were seen forcefully escorting young men and women to the trucks.
he country will enter its fifth consecutive day of power outages on Monday, which have also forced people to rummage through bins for food, queue to charge electronic devices using a solar panel and buy bread with 100-dollar bills after the country was hit by a fourth day of blackouts.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido called for a nation-wide march on Caracas to crank up the pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro, as the country endured its third night largely without power.
The massive blackout, crippling the oil-rich but economically troubled South American nation, has fuelled the political standoff between Guaido, who is recognised as Venezuela's leader by more than 50 countries, and Maduro, who is clinging to power.
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Ain’t socialism great!
Based on commentary....some folks say that Venezuela is like Puerto Rico, and they’ve put almost no money into infrastructure over the past five years. I’ll bet that most of the equipment is from the 1980s, marginally able to function.
Where are the Hollywood people?
Venezuela reminds me of my father in law. He was on his death bed for over a year, continually getting worse. And in the two years before that, he had several surgeries.
Meanwhile, in that year we had several “this is it” calls, but he kept on. Venezuela is in its death bed and the question is not “if”, but “when”?
And it could literally be any day.
How long before the people rise up and the killings start? A week? Two weeks? Its going to end in blood—revenge will surface.
At least in Puerto Rico we were very civil to each other, and extremely tolerant with the ‘authorities”, during our months-long blackout. Five days? Bah! I personally went 41 days without power!
Am I wrong or wasn’t Venezuela touted as an example of socialism at its best not so long ago?
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part III ("A is A"), Chapter IX ("The Generator"), page 1138
Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Mikey Moore, Naomi Campbell, Donn King, Noam Chomsky, are, apparently, unavailable for comment.
Welcome to the Democrat’s vision for the future of America!
How has that place not totally descended into chaos? I mean real chaos? It’s bizarre it’s held together this long - even with bailing wire.
There is stuff left to loot?
It’s an EMP [Elections made personal]
I’m available for comment.
1) All that food flung to the floors. I thought everyone was starving and there was no food on the shelves.
2) There is always much talk of “the opposition”. This guy who declared himself president won his election to the National Assembly (it’s Parliamentary, so HE didn’t win, his tiny party did) from an obscure district with a 29% turnout. He is leader of the National Assembly only because leadership/speakership rotates among the parties and the entire upheaval has been orchestrated to align with the timing of his tiny party rotating into the Speakership in January. He is not THE opposition. There are much larger opposition parties who want him to shut up.
3) The most capitalistic government/society possible would fail if faced with the same US sanctions. Besides which, since the Fed did 24% of US GDP in QE, proving money as a substance is created from thin air (and that doesn’t even address how much thin air money comes from BOJ or the ECB), how can any ism really matter to anyone. Isms, capital or social, derive from measurements of money, which is something created by central banks from nothingness. There is no moral yardstick of any system if the yardstick is something created from nothing.
4) The poor support Maduro. He buys their vote with free rent and free food. No money changes hands. They just get free rent and food (and yes all that came from oil). They are the majority. One more time. THEY ARE THE MAJORITY. He buys that majority? So what. The US budget is orchestrated to generate support of various categories of people, buying majority.
Send Alex Occasional-Kotex down there. She knows just what has to be done. She’s the Boss!
Remembering the NYC blackout of 1965. No crimes, no looting, no rioting.
Twelve years later under Jimmy Carter another blackout with massive rioting, looting and criminal activity.
What changed in those years.
Now Venezuela is feeling the brunt of Socialism at it’s height.
Am I wrong or wasn’t Venezuela touted as an example of socialism at its best not so long ago?
Is Looter Guy there for a photo op?
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