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.
Collectivism always ends up the same: the self-appointed liars and incompetants living high on the hog. How surprising. People never learn from history.
Actually I think it is the Minister of Feeding
When Kruschev visited the U.S. the one thing that impressed him most was: supermarkets! “How do you control this?!” he asked. The answer: “We don’t.”
I believe we already have one THE WOOKIE =)
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It is funny that foreigners who come here from certain countries think it must be some kind of trick or propaganda and that people can’t really get that food.
“”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.”
WOW!
Even when the situation gets this bad people don’t wake up. It’s always amazed me how much people will put up with before they rebel.
That was Khrushchev, tovarish. Ypa!
It worked in Cambodia. Why wouldn't it work in Venezuela?
There is no incentive to produce.
This a Venezuela’s “Going Galt” moment.
The national cops (National Guard) are heavily armed. Around ten years ago the NG was sent around to local police stations in Caracas to seize shotguns and tactical weapons from the local police.
The locals were allowed to keep their pistols...
lol
The more you post, the ore it sounds like us too...
People will willingly go into camps if they are fed the right story
North Korea comes to mind but Venezuela has no fences - you’ll know things are getting real bad when the refugees pour out.
I remember that, and also remember arguing with silly liberals touting the old should-have-been-hung-after-his-first-coup-plot Chavez’s “democratic election” that things would end up this way sooner or later.
Hugo brought in Cubans to replace Venezuelan security people too, didn’t he?
The proverbial “You reap what you sow” scenario in full executable mode. You asked for Chaves/Maduro, so the needle on my give a damn meter hasn’t budged.
Except obolo will rush in like the cavalry claiming a humanitarian crises. He won't let another socialist venture fail.
Looking at that communist faux-squaw bitch (Warren) nauseates me.
“People will willingly go into camps if they are fed the right story”
I keep telling myself that Americans will wake up once their personal lives are significantly affected by what the politicians and bureaucrats do.
Judging from the reaction of the starving Venezuelans, I may have been telling myself a lie.
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