[ From July 29, 2016 ] Venezuela is about to force people to work in the fields

Business Insider ^ | July 29, 2016, 9:32 PM | Linette Lopez

[TigerClaws]

Amnesty International says a new decree in Venezuela that says the government can make any of its citizens farm the country's fields in order to combat its current, punishing food crisis "effectively amounts to forced labour."

"The decree, officially published earlier this week, establishes that people working in public and private companies can be called upon to join state-sponsored organizations specialized in the production of food," Amnesty International reported.

"They will be made to work in the new companies temporarily for a minimum of 60 days after which their 'contracts' will be automatically renewed for an extra 60-day period or they will be allowed to go back to their original jobs."

Venezuela's economy has been in a tailspin since 2014, a year after the death of the architect of the country's decade-plus-long socialist revolution, Hugo Chavez.

His successor, Nicolas Maduro, then took over only to face a swift and brutal decline, turning Venezuela into what economist Steve Hanke calls "the most miserable" country in the world. Aside from a food shortage, the country is also experiencing almost 300% inflation, frequent and violent mass protests, a massive public health crisis, and intense political repression.

[Tzimisce]

Coming very, very soon to a nation near you.

Just keep voting Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, etc. :)

[piasa]

But think of all the exercise and fresh air they will get...

[Paladin2]

Time to siege Caracus.

[CommieCutter]

It’s just like the Irwin Schiff comic book where everyone had to go to work at the end.

[Fai Mao]

One guy with a tractor can grow more food than probably 250 people with hoes and rakes.

This is a very bad policy

[SpaceBar]

I think I’ve seen this movie before.

[mrsmith]

Maduro has also recreated the “Long March”... to the border to buy toilet paper.

[Fungi]

Socialism, fails every time it is tried. Motto on the Liberty Bell: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof... " It is taken from Leviticus 25:10: "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[BenLurkin]

The Democrat Party approves.

[Jonty30]

How many whites live in Venezuela?

[Army Air Corps]

The Great Leap Forward comes to Venezuela.

[nicepaco]

Too bad they ran out of beer. It is good food and currency.

[Ciaphas Cain]

The bountiful yield of socialist "agrarian utopia":

Skulls of Cambodians killed by the Khmer Rouge.

[txhurl]

You think they’ll work the fat guys harder? what with ‘according to his needs’ etc.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

How many whites live in Venezuela?

The question has almost no context down there. The question, before "Is it a boy or a girl" is "what color is it?"

[SpaceBar]

Utopia is just around the bend!

[txhurl]

Too bad they ran out of beer. It is good food and currency.

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If Colombia supplies the heroin to the new farm hands, and poppy seeds, they could turn this around /s

[RayChuang88]

In short, Venezuela is about to have a Great Leap Forward-style tragedy. We may soon have millions of Venezuelans sadly starving to death because of ill-advised government policies.

[digger48]

Now that they’ll all be in the fields, no need for TP. Just use the lettuce.