[ Camascaro never made it inside. Truckloads of Venezuelan troops arrived in the darkness, arresting him and nearly 30 others seemingly pulled from the queue at random, according to his lawyer. Camascaro, 50, was charged with violating laws against interfering “directly or indirectly” with the production, transportation or sale of food. He has been in jail for three months ]
If he has been fed in Jail, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
But knowing this is socialist hell hole, he is probably starving...
Hey WaPo, THIS is what happens when commie policies you support get to play out to its meaningful end. Idiots.
Coming soon to an Earth near you.
Venezuelan ‘elites’ have decided to blame the people. I’m sooooo surprised./s
Oh, this is because of the law against standing in line to buy food.
They’re going to come up with a law against eating.
On a beach vacation!
Hey Sean Penn, Rob Reiner, Cher, and the rest of the Commie libs..move to magnificent Socialist Utopia Venezuela, where buying food is criminal and you have to wait HOURS in line for toilet paper..come on Celebs, you love Socialism so much, see how long you last..I say celebs would last 2 hours tops before crying to come home
After reading the article, it appears that Venezuela has made it illegal to stand in line at a grocery store outside of normal business hours. They assume anyone who does so is buying in bulk to resell on the black market.
These people deserve everything they have allowed. I avert my gaze.
Somehow I suspect that the decision to arrest Camascaro was made before he got on line, and the line was a convenient place to make the arrest. Or perhaps there were government informants in the line, watching for people who made any anti-government remarks.
The government cannot afford food but it can afford advanced security devices to keep the hungry in line. That's life in a totalitarian police state.
I note that our own government has not succeeded in making healthcare "affordable", rather the opposite, but it has succeeded in setting up an enforcement mechanism through the IRS. It isn't even ironic, it's just how totalitarians work.
FYI. this sort of has a bearing on what we were discussing earlier. Note that the government agents soldiers/police are still “following orders” and to hell with the people. Human nature is not any different in the USA than it is in Venezuela, and again no shortage of JBTs to enforce it. I think here we may make a partial shortage for a while and most of us who consider themselves citizens rather than subjects have plans and lists, but I’m not terribly optimistic about the bulk of the populace.
Venezuela is breaking my heart. Had a co-worker from Maracaibo years ago who took me home to meet her family there for Christmas one year. They were middle class. Beautiful extended family who welcomed me into their Christian, conservative home. I lost touch with them after Chavez. One brother of my friend was kidnapped, tortured and left tied to a tree to die while out working on his small farm one day. Fortunately the family missed him and 2 brothers went out and found him. He had multiple knife wounds but recovered after time. They sold the farm due to that. The family business was confiscated. It was a year or so after that I lost touch. They were all anti-Chavez. I still pray for them and the nation daily but I fear what has become of them.
Well, getting arrested at least has the benefit of keeping him fed while awaiting trial
Nothing new.
“In 1994, former President Bill Clinton released an executive order that lumped together a number of laws that could go into effect in the event of a declaration of martial law. One of the laws included in this order, number 10998, allows the federal government to sieze hoarded food supplies from both public and private sources.”
Hollywood couldn’t write a better apocalyptic script.
So, why have these laws when there is little food to produce, transport or sell.
The government is working on controlling the distribution of food and has too few thugs to stop mass protests if and when they occur like they did the other.
So the only option is to descend on small crowds and make arrests I guess.
The government organization in Venezuela that distributes food has an acronym, CLAP.......
People who speak English can get a laugh out of that.
Off to the Gulag for dissidents or undesirables.