Posted on 08/18/2016 11:10:21 AM PDT by drewh
The economic crisis in Venezuela continues to worsen, starving citizens broke into a zoo and slaughtered a horse to eat it. Several people busted into the Caricuao Zoo in Caracas and then butchered the zoo's stallion.
According to Fusion.net, prosecutors say the horse was the only one of its kind in the zoo, before it was killed.
It is thought that only its head and ribs were left behind in a pile for the zookeepers to find the next morning.
However, it is not the first instance of animals being taken from the zoo, with Vietnamese pigs and sheep also reportedly stolen.
The zoo animals are also starving. Vietnamese pigs, tapirs, rabbits and birds have died from starvation, some of which went without food for more than 2 weeks.
Marlene Sifontes, 52, union leader for employees in the state parks, said: 'The story of the animals at Caricuao is a metaphor for Venezuelan suffering.'
She said lions and tigers in the zoo in Caracas were being fed mango and pumpkin to make up their meat rations, while an elephant is eating tropical fruit instead of its usual diet of hay.
Other zoo animals are also starving. Three animals died in Paraguana in May and 6 bears are eating only half of their daily required food.
President Nicolas Maduro blames the country's economic crisis on an "economic war" started by local opponents and the United States.
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Hmmm. I wonder if people will be on the menu next? A few fat soldiers on the BBQ, for instance.
I wonder what all of the Bernie supporters think of this development?
Bernie supporters don’t think.
Where is the UN in this crisis? The private aid organizations?
But, but it can never happen in the land of milk and honey... and the middle class taxpayers.
They usually just airily blow it off, "Oh, that wouldn't happen here."
Socialism works until you run out of other peoples animals.
“Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it, I do believe it’s true.”
Maduro should be ripe for the picking. (pun maliciously intended)
It’s just a matter of time before some of the starving resort to capitalism.
“Matt Damon”
The Clinton Foundation????
“Where is the UN in this crisis? The private aid organizations?”
Their socialist leader in Venezuela, won’t leave any aid organizations in because it would be proof of the failure of their socialist government. So his people starve. I hope they rise up and murder their despicable leader very, very soon.
Where is Zoo Lives Matter?
The only zoo life that mattered was Harambe, and look what happened to him...
Harambe for president.
He’s a uniter!
Good Lord. Coming to Memphis, Detroit, and Philadelphia soon!
In chaos there is opportunity! For members of the “endangered animal eaters club” this is a godsend. Off to Venezuela to indulge in some tasty komodo dragon skewers and a nice thick panda steak!
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