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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: Jolla

I don’t know this for a fact, but my gut feeling is Greece is a lot safer than Venezuela.


41 posted on 06/05/2015 1:23:56 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Carthego delenda est

Getting them from google search


42 posted on 06/05/2015 1:24:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Apparently taking pics inside the stores will get you arrested now/


43 posted on 06/05/2015 1:27:50 PM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: Carthego delenda est

Here’s one of the links from latino fox news

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/06/05/hungry-desperate-venezuelans-are-targeting-and-looting/


44 posted on 06/05/2015 1:28:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: GeronL

Here’s a video of them and the police are right there as they do this

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sl6fv_asi-saquearon-una-gandola-de-jugos-yukery-en-tazon_news?start=5


45 posted on 06/05/2015 1:31:55 PM PDT by caww
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To: Carthego delenda est

There’s video ....at post 45 link


46 posted on 06/05/2015 1:33:05 PM PDT by caww
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To: GeronL

Heck even the police were taking photos in that video.....what I’ve found out is apparently the truck tipped over and the people then looted it after that. Still, the police weren’t stopping them.


47 posted on 06/05/2015 1:38:07 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

bump

Many of the cops are also the criminals from some of the things I have read.


48 posted on 06/05/2015 1:53:23 PM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: GeronL

...”Many of the cops are also the criminals from some of the things I have read”....

Hey even here it’s getting pretty bad where every ones on the “take” one way or another.


49 posted on 06/05/2015 1:55:48 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

I remember reading a guy saying someone broke into his house and stole his stuff, since he is unarmed he couldn’t do much. So he went to the police station to report it, and there behind the desk, in uniform, is the guy who took his stuff.


50 posted on 06/05/2015 2:07:58 PM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: GeronL

Oh no!....

Reminds me of a friend who had a blind date.....some guy at work gave her a very hard time, rude, and nasty.....guess who her blind date was!


51 posted on 06/05/2015 2:20:57 PM PDT by caww
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To: hal ogen

If you have not stocked up better get movin. :-)


52 posted on 06/05/2015 2:46:21 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: PROCON
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.

There was a bait-car type of program in which a tractor trailer driver pretended to have a breakdown in the 'hood and left the truck unattended. A large number of those-who-must-not-be-described descended upon it within minutes and started looting what they thought were boxes of electronic devices. The cops caught a bunch of them.

They must have been starving too. < /sarc >

53 posted on 06/05/2015 3:20:59 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: caww

lolz!


54 posted on 06/05/2015 3:57:41 PM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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