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Desperate Venezuelans turn to ritual slaughter to save sick relatives as failing economy [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| September 9, 2016
| Jake Wallis Simons
Posted on 09/09/2016 12:53:11 PM PDT by C19fan
Jaime Otrupo chanted a solemn prayer then wrenched a chicken’s head from its body, allowing the blood to pump into a ceremonial clay pot as an offering to the gods. At his feet were the sacrificed corpses of a dove and a chick, both of which were beheaded with a kitchen-knife while his wife and young daughter looked on. This disturbing ritual, which was filmed by MailOnline in Mr Otrupo’s sitting-room in Caracas, Venezuela, may appear cruel to Western eyes. But to the father-of-five, the traditional healing ceremony was an act of desperation. For the collapse of the economy has seen hospitals run out of drugs as shamans, herbalists, witches and priests cash in on people's fears.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: socialism; thirdworldhellhole; venezuela
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posted on
09/09/2016 12:53:12 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Soon they will be sacrificing their relatives and eating them.
2
posted on
09/09/2016 12:54:12 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: C19fan
This what our community organizer has planned for us.
He just has to get the corpse of Mrs. Clinton elected.
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posted on
09/09/2016 12:55:54 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
To: C19fan
Civilization never quite took hold down there.
4
posted on
09/09/2016 12:57:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
Hmm...and a thread yesterday blamed the country’s ills on Catholicism.
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posted on
09/09/2016 12:59:54 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
To: miss marmelstein
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posted on
09/09/2016 1:08:00 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Trump is our Yeltsin.)
To: C19fan
This from a country that has the LARGEST OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD.................
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posted on
09/09/2016 1:09:29 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: C19fan
Yup, slaughter the innocents to save you. That always works out well. Bring out the virgin daughters next.
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posted on
09/09/2016 1:28:04 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: BenLurkin
That just might be the quote of the day/week/month.
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posted on
09/09/2016 1:28:23 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: C19fan
There is only one kind of thing they can slaughter that will make their lives better.
They are called socialists.
They have killed and murdered off a bunch of their people already and it’s why they are in the workers paradise mess they are in.
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posted on
09/09/2016 1:29:14 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: C19fan
The article refers to it as “black magic”, but that type is intended to do harm to other people, not help them - that would be white magic.
Black magic is a more appropriate term for how communists sell socialism to all those saps out there.
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posted on
09/09/2016 1:51:13 PM PDT
by
fruser1
To: C19fan
It’s easy to forget, living in our (still) great country that there remain places in this world of ours that are so backward.
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posted on
09/09/2016 1:59:03 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
09/09/2016 2:01:47 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Lurkinanloomin; C19fan
Lurkinanloomin :" This what our community organizer has planned for us.
He just has to get the corpse of Mrs. Clinton elected."
And afterwards ?
We will have Timmy Kaine (the malleable)as Resident ?
Are you sure this isn't a horror movie ?
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posted on
09/09/2016 2:23:14 PM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
To: C19fan
Not real smart killing a creature that lays eggs. But, hey, as long as it’s for the camera.
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posted on
09/09/2016 2:29:35 PM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Tim Kaine’s possessed eyebrow is something right out of a Stephen King novel.
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posted on
09/09/2016 2:29:42 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
To: C19fan
It actually might work... if they ritually slaughter the communists!
To: C19fan
Your lips taste like Sangria.
The rest of you like chicken.
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posted on
09/09/2016 3:23:16 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(The game overs whether you play it or not.)
To: C19fan
Idiots! Behead those responsible and not some poor chicken.
If you are starving would it not make more sense to eat the chicken?
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posted on
09/09/2016 3:37:18 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/09/2016 3:38:10 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
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