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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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American Liberal: Well, obviously Venezuela didn't do socialism right like we will here in America.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

1 posted on 06/05/2015 10:37:19 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

I bet they wish they had 23 brands of deoderant!


2 posted on 06/05/2015 10:39:13 AM PDT by GeronL ("NEW ARRIVALS" sci-fi ebook is free this weekend at Amazon!!!)
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To: PROCON
"The two Venezuelas" . . . the rift between the poor and the middle or upper class . . . the looters and the citizens.

Even with full socialism, the poor are still poor and unequal. What's the point in Obama's efforts to bring the rich down to the level of his voters (except, obviously, so his people can control the loot)?

3 posted on 06/05/2015 10:39:48 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: PROCON

Venezuela 2015 = America 2025.


4 posted on 06/05/2015 10:40:12 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: PROCON

Every university professor in the US should be sent to North Korea or Venezuela for a year.


5 posted on 06/05/2015 10:40:21 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: PROCON

After having looted the food trucks they’d surely be looting the TP trucks.


6 posted on 06/05/2015 10:41:27 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;America's Ambulance Chaser-In-Chief)
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To: PROCON

Look at your future, America.

The “wonderful revolution” is happening before your noses.


7 posted on 06/05/2015 10:43:03 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Gay State Conservative

There’s no toilet paper to loot.


8 posted on 06/05/2015 10:44:37 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kartographer

Ping!


9 posted on 06/05/2015 10:46:50 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: ScottinVA
Obama wants to do this to America before he leaves office.
10 posted on 06/05/2015 10:46:57 AM PDT by donna (That is not my culture; please, respect my culture!)
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To: PROCON

Robert Kennedy Jr. Calling Robert Kennedy Jr.


11 posted on 06/05/2015 10:48:15 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: PROCON

And another socialist paradise runs out of other people’s money...


12 posted on 06/05/2015 10:50:54 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: blueunicorn6
"Every university professor in the US should be sent to North Korea or Venezuela for a year."

Post of the day. However, I would include every liberal/socialist/communist supporter. Hell, just send them all to Venezuela, the latest land of Utopia. That totalitarian society is working out so well. /s

13 posted on 06/05/2015 10:53:16 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: blueunicorn6
Every university professor in the US should be sent to North Korea or Venezuela for a year.

They'd come back even more fired up with their delusions about a socialist paradise. The left is all for keeping the common folk beaten down, so long as THEY'RE part of the ruling clique.

14 posted on 06/05/2015 10:54:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: PROCON

Darn uno percenters.


15 posted on 06/05/2015 10:54:56 AM PDT by moovova
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To: ScottinVA

I have thought that if I was young it would be good to go to Greece for a couple of years to see how it works, then when you come back you would be better prepared for the US fall and maybe see some opportunities most people could not see. Caracas is even closer and they play very good baseball.


16 posted on 06/05/2015 10:56:32 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Pollster1
Even with full socialism, the poor are still poor and unequal.

Every socialist country that has ever existed produced a domestic nomenklatura. Socialism is not about equality. It is about central economic planning, the ultimate form of power.

17 posted on 06/05/2015 10:57:04 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: blueunicorn6
"university professors"

Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Michael Moore, and many more.

18 posted on 06/05/2015 10:59:49 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: PROCON

Exactly right. “They didn’t do it right.” Or, some external event upended their otherwise great plan. Or 1,000 other reasons why it didn’t work out well “there” but will here.

It all over. The only thing left now is the wait until the country descends into sheer anarchy. It will be brutal.

It’s just a matter of time.


19 posted on 06/05/2015 11:03:24 AM PDT by Obadiah (This is Bravo-6, we have Zips in the wire! I repeat, Zips in the wire.)
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To: ScottinVA

Well, they can enjoy a big plate of cooked grass with their North Korean host family.

Or they can wipe their behinds with leaves while they stay with their Venezuelan host family.

Either way, I’m all for education. Especially educating our university professors.


20 posted on 06/05/2015 11:03:42 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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