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Venezuelans staying the night outside stores for food
El Universal ^ | January 12, 2014 | Carrir, Abrer

Posted on 01/12/2015 9:56:42 PM PST by GeronL

Monday January 12, 2015 01:40 PM

Last Friday, dozens of people spent the night in the surroundings of the Andrés Bello square (north Caracas) to buy food in an outdoor market organized by the Venezuelan Ministry of Food.

For taking home staples such as rice, pre-cooked corn flour, milk, oil, sugar, beef or chicken, people had to wait in line for at least twelve hours. Buyers had numbers written on their arms. With fear and anger, but with the need to buy food, they were waiting there since the day before. "No matter if I am very fond of this government, this is not fair," a consumer said waiting in a line, where she spent seventeen hours.

Aware of the situation, Vice-President of Food Security and Sovereignty Carlos Osorio urged people to keep calm. He said that lines in recent days in supermarkets and government-sponsored markets show that there is enough food to meet Venezuelans' demand. "Are people upset about making lines?" Of course they are! but how can we attend to 4,000 people simultaneously? There is no choice but to wait in lines. We are calling people to keep calm, for there is food for everyone," he said.

Further, the minister stated that there is over 600 tons of food in state-run marketing networks to meet demand. He pointed out that the situation will be revised in private supermarkets and grocery stores.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: leopoldolopez; lines; politicalprison; politicalprisoners; queues; romoverde; socialism; socialistparadise; venezuela
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To: GeronL

“and for those who might complain and curse their government....

“There are cells available in Romo Verde prison” - Venezuelan Vice President Jorge Arreaza said.”

wasn’t there a post here a couple of years ago about a town meeting where someone complained about the quality of the water and the sheriff said that could be a terrorist statement?


21 posted on 01/12/2015 10:13:00 PM PST by willywill
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To: GeronL

That’s one heck of a picture Geron.


22 posted on 01/12/2015 10:13:00 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Tzimisce

“...You voted for it Venezuela....”

They may not have even though Jimmy Carter said it was a fair election. And the USA voted for Obama. Are you enjoying that?


23 posted on 01/12/2015 10:14:59 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: GeronL
"No matter if I am very fond of this government, this is not fair,"

This is the familiar refrain of the low information voter, the gibsmedats voter, and the rest of the idiots who vote in those who steal from the productive and give, for votes, to the envious and lazy.

This statement will be heard in this country, in the not to distant future.

24 posted on 01/12/2015 10:15:07 PM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: Tzimisce

“My son is in jail for speaking out”

http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/150112/my-son-is-in-jail-for-speaking-out

Just days after El Universal reported on a protest of food shortages, one of the protesters who was named - Carlos Rojas - is in jail!

Up to 4,000 dissenters are in jail as of now. Including Leopoldo Lopez, the last opposition candidate for President. So much for any semblance of “democracy”.


25 posted on 01/12/2015 10:15:47 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Tzimisce

We don’t really know the results of elections in that corrupt country, and opposition candidates are routinely locked up. Ask Leopoldo Lopez, the last opposition candidate for President, about that.

He can be reached through Ramo Verde Prison.


26 posted on 01/12/2015 10:17:40 PM PST by GeronL
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To: willywill

I don’t doubt it, tyrants are the same everywhere


27 posted on 01/12/2015 10:18:32 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

That looks like a line for Air Jordans...


28 posted on 01/12/2015 10:19:11 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: bkopto

Yes it will!

“Praise El Presidente for Life Obama, but....”


29 posted on 01/12/2015 10:19:42 PM PST by GeronL
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To: no-to-illegals
better get to the line quick, they don't have many chickens left!


30 posted on 01/12/2015 10:21:05 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Irenic

Just imagine if there were only a few pairs of Air Jordans in the whole country


31 posted on 01/12/2015 10:21:35 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Buyers had numbers written on their arms.

Where does it say you’ll have to have a number to buy and sell? Mmmmmm. Oh, I know! The Bible!


32 posted on 01/12/2015 10:21:51 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: GeronL
...but how can we attend to 4,000 people simultaneously? There is no choice but to wait in lines.

Sure there's choice. Try free market capitalism, just like you neighbor Chile did. Now it's the fastest growing economy in the world.

33 posted on 01/12/2015 10:22:12 PM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: GeronL

I wonder if those jails are feeding them.


34 posted on 01/12/2015 10:22:52 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: bkopto

Meanwhile the bus driver Maduro, 22 family members and much of his cabinet are on a world tour! How nice for them.


35 posted on 01/12/2015 10:23:22 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Monterrosa-24

I got a couple hundred people I know in Facebook that are loving every minute of it.

Including a startling number of conservatives.


36 posted on 01/12/2015 10:23:44 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Tzimisce

probably very basic stuff


37 posted on 01/12/2015 10:24:02 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Seaplaner

bump


38 posted on 01/12/2015 10:24:52 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

All of this began with the election of Hugo Chavez who won his first term in a relatively (for Latin America) fair election.


39 posted on 01/12/2015 10:24:57 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Irenic

Funny because it’s true.


40 posted on 01/12/2015 10:25:13 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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