Posted on 08/09/2016 2:29:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Alvaro Ybarra Zavala puts it bluntly: “Venezuela has become hell.”
The photographer had just returned from one of his latest trips to the South American nation when he talked to TIME, and he was visibly affected by the chaos he had witnessed there. “There’s a complete collapse of society,” he said.
Once an example for the continent, Venezuela is now a country in freefall. “It’s hard to find food, there’s no medicine,” said Ybarra Zavala. “If you have to have surgery, you need to bring everything with you: the bandages, the gloves, everything. There are no anesthetics.”
Ybarra Zavala was on assignment for TIME last month, chronicling the country’s breakdown. His photographs show daily street protests that are often violently repressed, empty shelves in deserted grocery stores and people lining up, sometimes for entire days, for gas. “No one believes anymore in the army, in the police, in the system,” said Ybarra Zavala.
The photographer - who’s worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia - said Venezuela is the “hardest place I’ve worked in”.
The collapse, set in motion by Hugo Chavez’s 14-year reign, now seems irreversible, he adds: “For the last four years, Venezuela has been in constant crisis and it never blew up. But now, I’m very scared of how it will end. I think Venezuela crossed the line of no return. I’m worried what will happen next.”
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
(American progressive speaking) “Oh, they just didn’t do it right.”
And yet many tenured professors at Western universities sing the praises of Marxism. Pay not attention to the failures. It’s work here because we’re really (weally) smart they insist.
And their sheeple students lap it up.
That country pretty much is gone. South America is in big time trouble.
On the positive side, it’s my understanding that Venezuela doesn’t have a major race issue simmering in the background, like Zimbabwe. The only real pockets of wealth in the country are in the pockets of the politically connected, which includes to a lesser degree, the military.
Venezuela is a laboratory for terminal socialism.
So a leftist / communist dictator destroys his country and it's a warning not to vote for Trump. Got it.
....Until the same “sheeple students” get out into the REAL WORLD after graduation.
any guess where they are heading..that dang wall better go up quick.
Last line of the article: “And it shows how dangerous populism can be.”
I picked up on that too. It was a pretty good article until that last line. Commies never learn.
Well, there’s no Juan Galt waiting to make the sign of the Bolivar.
This is why American communists need to be neutralized with extreme prejudice, before they get so strong that they cannot be rooted out.
This election will be the last peaceful attempt to destroy these MF’s.
Trump or all bets are off.
bkmk
Far too complicated for Obama-loving liberals to comprehend. They just can’t put 2 and 2 together.
Feel the Bern. Or Clinton.
5.56mm
America’s future under Hillary. And the snowflakes and most women are going to vote for it.
Fools. They’ll suffer the most.
The taste of what is to come under another RAT regime.
If only Venezuela weren’t totally devoid of natural resources like oil, Marxism would have worked there. /s
Ping.
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