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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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: forcedlabor; maduro; socialism; venezuela
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To: bkopto

Sounds like Jonestown.


41 posted on 07/29/2016 8:19:12 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: bkopto

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”

— Ludwig von Mises


42 posted on 07/29/2016 8:25:10 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: bkopto

Obama beat his friends in Venezuela to that socialist goal, forced labor. However, Venezuela may beat him on volume. For now.

43 posted on 07/29/2016 8:32:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: bkopto

Sounds like China and North Korea.


44 posted on 07/29/2016 8:40:08 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: bkopto

VENEZUELA - The joint vision of BERNIE/HILLARY for “their”
AMERICA of the FUTURE! A socialist paradise.


45 posted on 07/29/2016 8:43:17 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: bkopto

Socialism in action...


46 posted on 07/29/2016 9:26:05 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Diversity" was never THE goal. Diversity was a byproduct of people coming 'yearning to be free'.)
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To: Mr. K

Five year plans and starvation are right around the corner... Some ideas DO NOT WORK. When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?

Here’s some of OUR (Bernie type) thugs:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/james-okeefe-assaulted-thrown-ground-undercover-gig-dnc/


47 posted on 07/29/2016 9:27:51 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Diversity" was never THE goal. Diversity was a byproduct of people coming 'yearning to be free'.)
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To: Popman

Like much of Latin America, I suspect many of the “Creoles” (Spanish-descended people) that still remain there have already gotten their children out. As these countries delve deeper into communism, the lighter-hued who ran them in the past are the first to flee - leaving behind darker, poorer, less-educated populations with hands outstretched to “white” countries. We’re watching the “Cubanization” of much of Latin America; Ecuador has used the US$ as currency for years now since they’ve veered leftwards. Sucres have joined Venezuelan Bolivares and Zimbabwean pounds (as well as French Francs, Italian Lira, Spanish Pesetas) as testaments to socialist ruin...


48 posted on 07/29/2016 10:14:01 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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