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Venezuela's 'socialist paradise' turns into a nightmare: medical shortages claim lives (shortened)
The Telegraph ^ | 2/3/15 | Peter Foster,

Posted on 02/03/2015 9:58:47 AM PST by Kartographer

Mr Chavez might be dead, but as one of Latin America’s most charismatic political performers, he is far from forgotten.

His placid features still stare out from billboards in Caracas, while Venezuelan television still plays his rambling speeches denouncing America, capitalism and the West.

He promised the people the riches of the revolution, and for a while he was able to deliver, thanks to his country being blessed with the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: socialismfails; venezuela; venezuelacrisis
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Paging Sean Penn, Danny Glover,Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Naomi Campbell.....Please pick up the red there is a long distance call from hell for you.
1 posted on 02/03/2015 9:58:47 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Preppers' PING!!

Blackmarket soap, sugar and baby food for sale at over five times the government regulated prices, for sale in the Petare slum in east Caracas

Looks like hoarding to me. How soon before this stuff is snatched up for fair distribution to the people?

2 posted on 02/03/2015 10:02:15 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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“he magic realism of Hugo Chavez’s”

Funny pun on a a popular genre from Latin America including Marquez and Isabel Allende.


3 posted on 02/03/2015 10:02:42 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Kartographer

Send every American University Professor to Venezuela to see how socialism really works.


4 posted on 02/03/2015 10:08:41 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kartographer

Its like a bad telenovela.

You know, the ones with plots and twists that just make you look forward to the next episode.

That’s what Venezuela has become.


5 posted on 02/03/2015 10:08:57 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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But they have universal healthcare!


6 posted on 02/03/2015 10:10:35 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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You know Obama is thinking:"If I could just bring this here to American!"
7 posted on 02/03/2015 10:13:50 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: goldstategop

EXCELLENT observation


8 posted on 02/03/2015 10:23:34 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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Inflation In Russia Is So Crazy...Price Controls On 'Essential Food Products'
9 posted on 02/03/2015 10:24:19 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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Don't look like NO ONE is hungry in THAT picture ...

Capitalism apparently is a healthful enterprise

10 posted on 02/03/2015 10:25:03 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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I guess it’s time for them to have another revolution to reverse the last one.


11 posted on 02/03/2015 10:26:05 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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They took over a Walgreens/CVS type chain and jailed the CEO and others, accusing them of not selling stuff. Ridiculous charges.


12 posted on 02/03/2015 10:41:30 AM PST by GeronL
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re obozocare; who can't see this same collapse coming to America, per design of course.
13 posted on 02/03/2015 10:48:04 AM PST by drypowder
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To: blueunicorn6

And every congress criminal plus agency heads, one way of course. Let them walk home and learn about border security from countries that enforce theirs. Maybe the survivors will change their tune.


14 posted on 02/03/2015 10:48:49 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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Medical shortages coming here soon.


15 posted on 02/03/2015 11:00:45 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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No medical shortage on the black market. You want to make sure you can see your doctor? Build a deck on his house. You get the lumber for the deck by going down to the government supply yard and giving the guy a case of vodka so he’ll look the other way while the boards disappear.

That’s how you roll in a socialist society.


16 posted on 02/03/2015 11:22:04 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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Venezuela is another of the many countries that have tried socialism as a form of government, and it failed again.


17 posted on 02/03/2015 11:27:47 AM PST by 353FMG
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What??? Socialism is turning another country into a starving hellhole???

Color me shocked.

Venezuela’s in such a drastic shape that only drastic, pro-freedom solutions will work, however harsh they may be.

Step 1: Eliminate all restrictions on firearms and other weapons. People will need them to protect themselves against the people who will inevitably riot as a result of the next steps, which all should be done as concurrently as possible.

Step 2: Eliminate all social spending and subsidies. If you’re not getting much money into the country, you cannot afford all the spending.

Step 3: Privatize damn near everything. This would include things we in the US would normally regard as public goods, such as roads, schools, and water systems.

Step 4: Eliminate all wage and price controls. Prices would “necessarily skyrocket”, due to the shortages of damned near everything, but you want to incentivize people to produce or import all kinds of goods. Futhermore, without the social spending, all those out-of-work Venezuelans will need jobs, even if the wages absolutely suck at first.

Step 5: Allow virtually unlimited foreign investment and free trade. Some know-how and goods will necessarily come from outside the country.

Step 6: Eliminate all taxes on income and property at the federal level. Fund what little remains of the federal government with a modest sales and service tax, of no more than 10 percent, but preferably much lower.

Step 7: Adopt constitutional amendments similar to our bill of rights.


18 posted on 02/03/2015 11:46:39 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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8. I almost forgot: STOP DEVALUING THE BOLIVAR, FOR CHRISSAKE! Sound money is good.


19 posted on 02/03/2015 11:47:21 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: Kartographer

Coming to a medical facility near you...


20 posted on 02/03/2015 11:56:20 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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