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Venezuela has a new 'forced labor' law that can require people to work in fields
Vice News ^ | 7/28/2016 | Alan Hernández

Posted on 07/29/2016 7:02:04 AM PDT by bkopto

International human rights activists are complaining that new laws have introduced forced labour in Venezuela.

"A new decree establishing that any employee in Venezuela can be effectively made to work in the country's fields as a way to fight the current food crisis is unlawful and effectively amounts to forced labor," Amnesty International said in a statement released on Thursday.

President Nicolás Maduro signed a decree at the end of last week that gives powers to the labor ministry to order "all workers from the public and private sector with enough physical capabilities and technical know-how" to join a government drive aimed at increasing food production.

They can be required to work in the agricultural sector for a 60-day period that can be extended for another 60 days "if the circumstances require it."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.vice.com ...


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KEYWORDS: forcedlabor; maduro; socialism; venezuela
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To: bkopto

Let’s see the Democrats and Liberals decry slavery HERE.


21 posted on 07/29/2016 7:21:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Muslims kill people because they're sick of being called violent! They're violent over Islamophobia!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Sure isn’t like Marx or Engels ever worked like that. Both were spoiled-rotten offspring of wealthy people.


22 posted on 07/29/2016 7:22:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: bkopto

It looks like VZ might be fertile ground for covert arms dealers going forward.


23 posted on 07/29/2016 7:23:10 AM PDT by lurk (T)
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To: bkopto

There are two kinds of people in Socialist countries- billionaires and slaves.


24 posted on 07/29/2016 7:25:14 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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To: bkopto

socialism = slavery......literally


25 posted on 07/29/2016 7:26:03 AM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: bkopto

Socialism is for the workers and the children.

None dare call it slavery.


26 posted on 07/29/2016 7:27:04 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: bkopto

So the solution to food shortages is to reintroduce slavery, after having outlawed it for nearly 200 years?

Socialism, at its finest.


27 posted on 07/29/2016 7:34:01 AM PDT by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: bkopto

Let’s see if the people take it lying down...


28 posted on 07/29/2016 7:41:09 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: bkopto

Pure Marxism, straight out of the Communist Manifesto.


29 posted on 07/29/2016 7:42:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: bkopto

Somehow the train car scene in Dr Zhivago comes to mind. The chained man.


30 posted on 07/29/2016 7:47:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Mr. K

They worked so well in Red China, Cambodia and Vietnam.


31 posted on 07/29/2016 7:50:26 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: bkopto
International human rights activists are complaining that new laws have introduced forced labour in Venezuela.

Due to Executive Order 13603 the same thing, or worse, can happen in America.

Forced labor with no compensation. Look it up!

Isn't that slavery?

32 posted on 07/29/2016 7:59:15 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: bkopto
Venezuela has a new 'forced labor' law that can require people to work in fields

Socialism always devolves into Slavery.

33 posted on 07/29/2016 7:59:34 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: rightwingcrazy
The descent of socialist societies to despotism and mass slavery seems like a logical necessity to me. Maybe if someone did the math and shared it, people would lose interest in this utopian path to suicide.

Such facts can only awaken intelligent people. More than half our electorate is stupid. Facts do not sway them. The Presidency has now become a celebrity popularity game, and seldom focuses on any real policy issues.

34 posted on 07/29/2016 8:02:16 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: bkopto
new laws have introduced forced labor in Venezuela.

Forced labor is implied in the very idea of socialist planning. It is incompatible with socialist planning for private individuals to have the freedom to acquire the skill they want and to live where they want. Such freedom would alone make socialist planning impossible.

35 posted on 07/29/2016 8:02:37 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: jalisco555
There are two kinds of people in Socialist countries- billionaires and slaves.

I keep telling people this: Socialism is merely the re-ascension of the Monarchy/Aristocracy form of government.

They simply don't call them "Lords" or "Kings", but that is what a communist government consists of.

36 posted on 07/29/2016 8:03:54 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: bkopto

[[[[crickets]]]]
37 posted on 07/29/2016 8:07:34 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: Olog-hai
Sure isn’t like Marx or Engels ever worked like that. Both were spoiled-rotten offspring of wealthy people.

Years ago I read this book:

It made it clear to me that Socialist movements *ALWAYS* start with spoiled-rotten offspring of wealthy people.

They aren't in touch with the real world, but instead they grow up in a world of artificial comforts for which they feel guilty, and so they generally attempt to overturn the societal dynamics that created their ease and comfort because they are too simpleminded to realize that their lives will turn to sh*t if they end up being successful.

Wealth imparts destructive impulses to foolish young people. Especially unearned wealth.

38 posted on 07/29/2016 8:08:49 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: bkopto

Now we just need to make it a Requirement to Enter in to Higher Education, that ALL Prospective Students spend 30 days in Venezuela as a cultural awareness prerequisite.


39 posted on 07/29/2016 8:10:36 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: kearnyirish2

-—Let’s see if the people take it lying down...——

They will take it like a rug...

Only when their children are forced into slaves will they do something...


40 posted on 07/29/2016 8:15:05 AM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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