the bus checkpoints/robberies should start any day now...
Posted on 08/10/2016 3:03:34 PM PDT by dynachrome
Government employee Jose Lara this month used some vacation days to take a long scenic bus ride through the verdant plateaus and sweeping savannas of southern Venezuela, but the trip was anything but a holiday.
It was a 36-hour grocery run.
Lara took an overnight bus and then a pick-up truck to get across the border to neighboring Brazil to buy food staples that have gone scarce in Venezuela's crisis-stricken economy.
"Workers can't even enjoy vacation anymore. Look where I am! Buying food for my children," said Lara, 40, who was preparing to load 30-kilo (66-pound) packages of rice and flour onto a bus to complete a journey that takes close to 36 hours.
Venezuelans seeking to escape their socialist economy's dysfunction are flooding into the remote Brazilian town of Pacaraima in search of basic goods that are prohibitively expensive or only available after hours in line.
Shoppers have been coming for months, primarily from the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz - already a 12-hour bus ride - but lately they're also arriving from even more far flung regions across the country.
Venezuelans spend hours in supermarket lines. Many increasingly complain that they cannot get enough food to eat three meals per day.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
Looks like a pretty good black market (oops. is that ray-ciss?) gig to me.
They’ll make up for it in volume
The Venezuelans would also get a better deal in Brazil for selling their personal property, since everybody’s selling in Venezuela.
Close the border to Venezuela and let things move along already.
Once Maduro’s hanging from a lamp post, things will fix themselves.
Wonder what they use for currency? No mention in the Rooterslime article.
“Workers can’t even enjoy vacation anymore. Look where I am! Buying food for my children”
If you can only get rice and flour to eat-and feed to your kids-and you even have to go to Brazil to get it-what are you doing whining about enjoying your vacation? I have zero sympathy-you love socialism so much-so eat your flour and rice-enjoy your prison...
Si señor.
they cannot get enough food to eat three meals per day.
= = =
Hey, that’s what the one-percenters do.
Three meals is too much.
the bus checkpoints/robberies should start any day now...
He lost any sympathy right there. I don't know what a vacation is.
There was an article not long ago interviewing a farmer. The farmer's wife sold street food. They had a handful of kids some old enough to get a job or at least help with a home garden to expand his corn crop but there was bare dirt and blooming flower beds in the front of the house that had a satellite dish on the roof and what appeared to be a huge speakers in the house. Farmer whined they were starving and showed an empty fridge. Nope, sorry, your kids aren't starving if you have flower beds. Kick the kids out from whatever the satellite dish is for and make them plant some edibles.
Bet they get robbed or arrested on the way back.
Any takers?
I just heard an NPR “report” while driving this afternoon, that mentioned in the most casual way, as if it’s something everybody knows and everybody agrees with, that the REASON for Venezuela’s economic problems is the “collapse of the global oil price”.
That’s not just lying. That’s not just filthy leftist lying. That’s criminal complicity. Leftists in Venezuela are starving people with leftist policies and leftists in America provide media cover for Venezuelan socialist masters mass-murdering their own people.
That’s criminal conspiracy on the part of the leftist mass media in our country.
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