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.
“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?
That’s one heck of a picture Geron.
“...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?
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.
“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”.
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.
I don’t doubt it, tyrants are the same everywhere
That looks like a line for Air Jordans...
Yes it will!
“Praise El Presidente for Life Obama, but....”
Just imagine if there were only a few pairs of Air Jordans in the whole country
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!
Sure there's choice. Try free market capitalism, just like you neighbor Chile did. Now it's the fastest growing economy in the world.
I wonder if those jails are feeding them.
Meanwhile the bus driver Maduro, 22 family members and much of his cabinet are on a world tour! How nice for them.
I got a couple hundred people I know in Facebook that are loving every minute of it.
Including a startling number of conservatives.
probably very basic stuff
bump
All of this began with the election of Hugo Chavez who won his first term in a relatively (for Latin America) fair election.
Funny because it’s true.
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