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Venezuelan shortages, long queues spark violence, arrests
Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 1/12/15 | Alexandra Ulmer and Javier Farias

Posted on 01/12/2015 12:24:06 PM PST by Kartographer

Venezuela, mired in a recession and with the highest inflation rate in the Americas, is suffering from chronic shortages of goods ranging from diapers to flour that have worsened this year due to an ebb in deliveries during Christmas.

The scarcity of goods has forced many shoppers across the OPEC nation to queue up in front of supermarkets before dawn. The inflation rate hit 63.6 percent in the 12 months to November.

The MUD accused National Guard troops posted to maintain order outside shops of banning photos and videos of the lines that sometimes snake around blocks.

"Not only is the government forcing people to get into humiliating queues... it also wants the lines to be 'Cuban-style,' silent and terrified," said MUD chief Jesus Torrealba.

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...


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To: Kartographer

This Socialist Model will soon be playing in a nation near you. :)


21 posted on 01/12/2015 12:39:32 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: QuisCustodiet1776

Yup. the constant drum beat of “we want more...” AT&T seemed to be successful at it too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgxzjrodNvI


22 posted on 01/12/2015 12:40:26 PM PST by SIRTRIS
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To: Kartographer

“I expect that will soon give sell oil rights for the next 20-50 years just to try and head off the inevitable.”

The already did that, they owe oil to China on the money they borrowed.


23 posted on 01/12/2015 12:41:00 PM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: JPG

Are they lining up to purchase Obama logowear?


24 posted on 01/12/2015 12:43:17 PM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: Capt. Tom

Venezuela is certainly on the ropes. Their Socialist economy will not survive.

On the other hand Russia is a little more tricky since they are economically, like China , Capitalist.

Moreover, China is helping them out, and getting dirt cheap oil while they are at it.


25 posted on 01/12/2015 12:46:08 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: JPG

Hey where is Sean Penn???


26 posted on 01/12/2015 12:48:15 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
Hey where is Sean Penn???

Having a pity party with Joe Kennedy Jr?

27 posted on 01/12/2015 12:49:02 PM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: Kartographer
There's a reason why China went on a capitalist economic reform starting in 1979--Deng Xiaopeng and Chinese political leaders of his generation saw firsthand the misguided Communist economic policies that caused the horrors of the Great Leap Forward between 1958 and 1963 and were determined to get away from that debacle.

This is why I think once the Castro brothers leave the political scene from Cuba, you will see Cuba turn into Western Hemisphere equivalent of China--probably within ten years! The Cubans very well know that they are sitting on a gigantic economic gold mine and they're not going squander that potential.

28 posted on 01/12/2015 12:57:20 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: dfwgator
Hopefully Chavez has a ringside view from his seat in Hell.

I wonder if he can still smell the sulfur.

29 posted on 01/12/2015 1:12:03 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Kartographer

Milton Friedman once said that, if you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, there’ll eventually be a shortage of sand. No wonder that, after 14 years of socialist government, Venezuela — the country with the world’s largest oil reserves — is currently importing gasoline, and there are shortages of everything else.


30 posted on 01/12/2015 1:20:32 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kartographer

Need to add a bit more Gulag to the socialist stew.


31 posted on 01/12/2015 1:22:40 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Kartographer

Venezuela == The future of America under those like Barry Soweto.


32 posted on 01/12/2015 1:48:07 PM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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To: JPG

Surely those people know that by the time they get to the front of the line there won’t be anything left.


33 posted on 01/12/2015 1:58:52 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: RayChuang88

I’m not sure another dictator won’t take Castro’s place.


34 posted on 01/12/2015 2:00:48 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: fhayek
Every time, every freakin’ time, socialism is tried, shortages like this happen... And yet, it still continues to be tried.

We haven't tried it yet in the United States. Our Socialists are smarter, more compassionate, more educated than the others who went before. They will make it work this time...

Just watch...

35 posted on 01/12/2015 2:50:28 PM PST by Gritty (A new future is to be written, a new American moment, and I'm going to seize it-Obama 12/27/14)
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To: thackney; Kartographer

“One of the first agreements was signed with the American company Chevron in May 2013. The deal included a $2 billion loan by Chevron to Pdvsa to cover the state oil company’s portion of investment in an oil field across Lake Maracaibo from Mene Grande.

But it also included provisions sought by Chevron to guarantee that the new loan, as well as millions of dollars in unpaid dividends from past operations, would be paid promptly from oil revenues...”

This almost sounds hopeful, but I pinch myself and remind myself that alas, Chevron is probably not really an “American” oil company. It may have some good Americans working for it, but I suspect its upper echelons are very much in alignment with the ptb. I DO hope I’m wrong.


36 posted on 01/12/2015 4:09:26 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: fhayek

The right people just haven’t been in charge.


37 posted on 01/12/2015 5:09:10 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: JPG

That crowd still looks well-fed. They might revolt when they get skinny enough.


38 posted on 01/12/2015 9:38:53 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: fhayek
Every time, every freakin’ time, socialism is tried, shortages like this happen. Every mother loving time. And yet, it still continues to be tried. Amazing.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.

39 posted on 01/12/2015 9:42:47 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: thackney
Venezuela, in a Quiet Shift, Gives Foreign Partners More Control in Oil Ventures

Lucy van Pelt holds the football for Charlie Brown.

40 posted on 01/13/2015 4:55:42 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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