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Venezuelan Police Unleash Tear-Gas, Rubber Bullets Amid Violent Anti-Government Protests
Zero Hedge ^ | May 18, 2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 05/18/2016 12:56:48 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

The conflagration that is the collapse of a socilaist utopia continues to escalate in Venezuela today. With morgues overflowing, medicines running out, and apocalyptic scenes playing out across the nation, Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas today - at the behest of the opposition - demanding a recall referendum to end Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's socialist rule. The troubled nations leader was not happy and security forces fired tear gas and shut subway stations to block the thousands of protesters.

Over the last two weeks, several provinces have hosted scenes of looting in pharmacies, shopping malls, supermarkets, and food delivery trucks. In several markets, shouts of “we are hungry!” echoed. On April 27, the Venezuelan Chamber of Food (Cavidea) reported that the country’s food producers only had 15 days left of inventory.

PanamPost adds that lootings are becoming an increasingly common occurrence in Venezuela, as the country’s food shortage resulted in yet another reported incident of violence in a supermarket — this time in the Luvebras Automarket located in the La Florida Province of Caracas.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communist; failure; riots; socialism; socialisthell; venezuela; venezuelacollapse
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The "crash diet" that is the rage in the Socialist Utopia of Venezuela.
1 posted on 05/18/2016 12:56:48 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Yet nary a word on the national “news”

Gee, I wonder why?


2 posted on 05/18/2016 12:58:15 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget #BoycottRoss Women & children hurt the most)
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Is it my imagination or are leftist never happy even when they get exactly what they want?


3 posted on 05/18/2016 12:59:33 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Navy Patriot

Hopefully the rioters are using Hollywood Liberals for human shields.


4 posted on 05/18/2016 1:01:07 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Navy Patriot

Venezuela is just but a microcosm of what the NWO eliteists want while they sit in the lap of luxury protected by small armies with guns after all humans on the planet have had theirs stripped away. For them the wolld is just one big theater and they want to see the peasants suffer for entertainment purposes sake. I believe Soros and his buddies get off on seeing people suffer.


5 posted on 05/18/2016 1:01:37 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Navy Patriot

This is Sanders’ idea of utopia.


6 posted on 05/18/2016 1:02:15 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: Navy Patriot

These uppity people want food. Don’t they realize how great Communism is and that their puny needs don’t matter?


7 posted on 05/18/2016 1:02:29 PM PDT by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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To: Navy Patriot

Venezuela’s Feeling the Bern!!!


8 posted on 05/18/2016 1:02:44 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: TTFlyer

Venezuelans should have those helpful Hollywood Liberals down for lunch!


9 posted on 05/18/2016 1:05:00 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: dsrtsage

A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns.

And believe it or not, such a place does indeed exist.

It’s called prison.

— Sheriff Joe Arpaio


10 posted on 05/18/2016 1:06:04 PM PDT by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“Yet nary a word on the national ‘news’
Gee, I wonder why?”

Because 0bama and the democrats are taking this country down the same road that Venezulan leftists followed. Pretty soon our hospitals will be just like Venezuelan supermarkets.


11 posted on 05/18/2016 1:06:32 PM PDT by forgotten man
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Who is Juan Galtez? Venezuela is shrugging!


12 posted on 05/18/2016 1:10:59 PM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: Navy Patriot

Feeling the BERN!


13 posted on 05/18/2016 1:11:16 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Navy Patriot

I’d laugh but I was reading about their newborn babies dying in their hospitals because they didn’t have common medicines anymore. They need to pull the plug fast.


14 posted on 05/18/2016 1:11:17 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: jsanders2001
I believe Soros and his buddies get off on seeing people suffer.

Having worked closely with customers in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore when he crashed the Baht, Ringgit and tried unsuccessfully to also crash the Singapore dollar in the late 1990s, your statement is more true than you realize.

15 posted on 05/18/2016 1:11:20 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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I believe Soros and his buddies get off on seeing people suffer.

Soros is a prime mover in engineering economic policy for nations targeted to suffer economic and currency collapse like this.

IMF protected Western Banksters: Islam's best friends.

16 posted on 05/18/2016 1:12:37 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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They need to pull the plug fast.

You don't pull the plug on Communism, ...Communism pulls the plug on you.

17 posted on 05/18/2016 1:14:35 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Vince Ferrer

And one can only imagine the untreated infections after childbirth! What a horror. I do believe it’s coming to the USA.


18 posted on 05/18/2016 1:15:14 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Navy Patriot

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE.................OR CAN IT?.................

19 posted on 05/18/2016 1:17:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: Navy Patriot

The people will not get their country back from Maduro by marches and a recall referendum that will never happen. Food is a weapon and remaining food and staples will first go to the army, the police and government officials. Any remaining will be allocated based upon support of the Regime. At this stage, either the army will have to turn on Maduro or armed revolution are the only options IMO.


20 posted on 05/18/2016 1:21:23 PM PDT by Truth29
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