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Hungry, desperate Venezuelans are targeting and looting food trucks
foxnewslatino ^ | June 5, 2015 | Carlos Camacho

Posted on 06/05/2015 10:37:19 AM PDT by PROCON

Caracas – One of the many byproducts of Venezuela’s acute political and financial crisis is food truck looting, a pattern that is plaguing the country’s highways with chaos and fear.

Just last week, some 200 looters swarmed into an overturned tractor-trailer carrying canned juice — men, women and children were seen taking as many boxes of juice as they could, either by foot or on motorcycles.

Drivers and even emergency personnel just stood by, unaffected.

"The two Venezuelas" (Las dos Venezuelas), a catchphrase so commonly used here these days to describe the rift between the poor and the middle or upper class, were exposed in broad daylight for everyone to see: the looters and the citizens.

This time, looters refrained from attacking the grid-locked cars, something that has happened in the past, and they didn’t even take issue with the reporters covering the crash and the ensuing mayhem. “Here my man, take a can,” offered a young man, handing me a mangled can from the dozen he was carrying. “It’s apple flavor,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: hunger; socialism; venezuela
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To: PROCON

You mean they don’t have Sean Penn on speed dial?


21 posted on 06/05/2015 11:05:01 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: PROCON

Send Sean Penn.


22 posted on 06/05/2015 11:06:18 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PROCON

I’m surprised it’s taken this long.

Ain’t socialism grand?


23 posted on 06/05/2015 11:06:36 AM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: GeronL

Bernie can’t tell you why having 23 brands of deodorant causes children to go hungry, but his degree in womyn’s studies said so.


24 posted on 06/05/2015 11:06:44 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: ScottinVA

“Venezuela 2015 = America 2025.”

We don’t even have that much time by my reckoning.


25 posted on 06/05/2015 11:11:57 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: PROCON
Hungry, desperate Venezuelans are targeting and looting food trucks...

'Feb 1989'....Looters pillage a meat truck during the social upheaval known as the 'Caracazo' riots, that took place February 1989 in Caracas, Venezuela.


26 posted on 06/05/2015 11:19:50 AM PDT by caww
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To: DemforBush

Food lines...


27 posted on 06/05/2015 11:21:45 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Grocery day in Venzualia


28 posted on 06/05/2015 11:23:57 AM PDT by caww
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To: Blood of Tyrants

lol


29 posted on 06/05/2015 11:24:21 AM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: PROCON

Time for another revolution, amigos?


30 posted on 06/05/2015 11:29:53 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: caww
a YEAR AGO...Amateur photo: Venezuelans line up for miles in an effort to acquire food during hyper inflationary food shortages – March 2014


31 posted on 06/05/2015 11:30:16 AM PDT by caww
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I guess Bernie would shut down 22 of every 23 factories and put the workers on welfare in the name of.... something or another


32 posted on 06/05/2015 11:34:13 AM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: DemforBush

this has been going on for a while


33 posted on 06/05/2015 11:35:57 AM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: caww

I think they have made it illegal to take such pictures now


34 posted on 06/05/2015 11:37:13 AM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: ScottinVA

You’re optimistic.


35 posted on 06/05/2015 11:43:55 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: caww

Where are you getting these photos from? I’d appreciate a link to more of the same or similar if you have one. There are certain people I know who might get a bit of an education seeing such....


36 posted on 06/05/2015 12:10:18 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: PROCON
Hungry, desperate Venezuelans are targeting and looting food trucks

Eat your socialism. You wanted a free lunch, and so now you must have misery and suffering. You bought that crap the liars always sell. Now you are hungry and you deserve it.

This is always the result when socialism is tried. Always.

37 posted on 06/05/2015 12:12:18 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: PROCON

This could never happen in the US. (sarc)


38 posted on 06/05/2015 12:24:00 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Yet another socialist “transformation”. Watch out...this could be your neighborhood.


39 posted on 06/05/2015 1:17:46 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: GeronL

Oh really...maybe why I only could find the two for this food truck ordeal and one from last year....there are others of food lines throughout the net though.


40 posted on 06/05/2015 1:18:49 PM PDT by caww
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