Posted on 01/23/2015 11:08:02 AM PST by Kartographer
While the streets are calmer now, tension is building again as the anniversary of the February uprising nears.
Venezuela's crisis has only deepened with falling crude prices crippling the oil-dependent economy, leading to a cash crunch that has restricted imported goods to just a trickle. Basic items like flour and diapers are hard to come by even on the black market and the government has had to deploy soldiers to keep peace outside stores where people wait hours for a chance to pick through near-barren shelves.
"Things are as bad as they were a year ago but now, in addition to the crime, there are more shortages in other parts of the country and the lines are longer," says Jose Vicente Garcia, a city councilman who helped lead last year's rebellion. "All the conditions needed to end this government are coming together."
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What’s the going rate for piano wire?
San Cristobal, Venezuela
Isn’t economic ‘Castroism’ just wonderful? Enjoy your enslavement there you moronic chavistas.
It will happen, but will it be any more effective than last time?
I wonder often will it do any good here? Maybe its time to sunder the US in two the takers have their on and the makers have their own.
How's that socialism working out for you Venezuela? You are all equal now.
Somebody needs to tell all the dem voters here to enjoy using toilet paper while they still can.
The problem is that the takers are very much aware that they need the makers to plunder.
The moronic ones will never understand the real reason for the trouble. They’ll just blame oil prices & it’ll still be evil industrialists or the US as the source of the problem.
Or they just didn’t have the ‘right’ person in charge.
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