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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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Attention BernieBots: the mask is off and the endgame has arrived in Venezuela.
1 posted on 07/29/2016 7:02:04 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

I was wondering when the forced labor camps would begin!


2 posted on 07/29/2016 7:03:35 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: bkopto

Get a degree in Womyns Studies, get your loan forgiven, then go to work as a sharecropper. There’s your future kids.


3 posted on 07/29/2016 7:03:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bkopto

A law that Hillary could get behind ...


4 posted on 07/29/2016 7:04:22 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: bkopto

Slavery is OK, so long as it’s done to bail out socialist policies.


5 posted on 07/29/2016 7:04:38 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: bkopto

Slouching to Cambodia.


6 posted on 07/29/2016 7:04:57 AM PDT by BRL
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To: bkopto

Pol Pot is laughing in hell.


7 posted on 07/29/2016 7:05:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: bkopto

Slavery - now applauded by progressives.

How would you like to be forced to work at gunpoint?

Socialism has its dark side.


8 posted on 07/29/2016 7:05:12 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: bkopto

Socialism and communism: If you want to eat, you have to work. The free shit stops when they get control.


9 posted on 07/29/2016 7:05:19 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: bkopto

So we’ve seen Socialism lead to slavery in all but name in China, Russia, North Korea and now Venezuela. I guess this is the Dems endgame — they were the party of slavery once, they will be again.


10 posted on 07/29/2016 7:05:31 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: bkopto

Chairman Mao speaks Spanish.


11 posted on 07/29/2016 7:06:14 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: bkopto

A Great Leap Forward!

Smash those kulak horders and wreckers!


12 posted on 07/29/2016 7:08:23 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Mr. K; Buckeye McFrog
Forward!!!!

Anything else is backward and not contributing to working people.

Any one who opposes this measure is for Wall Street/Big Banks/Corporate Interest.

We have nothing to lose but our chains!

All Power to the people

13 posted on 07/29/2016 7:08:48 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: goldstategop
It was actually always lauded by the Marxists. The eighth plank of communism in the Manifesto reads as “Equal liability of all to work” in the English translation, but the original German version reads “Gleicher Arbeitszwang für alle”, which literally means “Equal forced labor for all”.
14 posted on 07/29/2016 7:10:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: bkopto

‘Forced labor’ is the lefts wet dream.


15 posted on 07/29/2016 7:15:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: bkopto

Khmer Rouge?


16 posted on 07/29/2016 7:16:52 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 16 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: bkopto

Venezuela citizens don’t have firearms so their dictator runs the day. This is exactly what the hag will bring to the US once she orders all firearms be confiscated. Or, on the flip side of that scenario, the US citizens will stand their ground.


17 posted on 07/29/2016 7:18:11 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: bkopto

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. Maybe not.


18 posted on 07/29/2016 7:18:35 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: bkopto

The journey from the working fields to the Killing Fields is just a club to the back of the head away.


19 posted on 07/29/2016 7:19:36 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Olog-hai
“Equal forced labor for all”.

At least when I'm out there picking cabbage in the 90 degree heat I'll know that Hillary is working the row to my left and Pelosi the row to my right.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight!


20 posted on 07/29/2016 7:20:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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