Posted on 06/27/2017 1:53:12 PM PDT by detective
The end stages of socialism in Venezuela are forcing citizens to do anything they can to obtain food for themselves and their families, including risking their lives. Mariana Revilla, a medical doctor reduced to making midnight excursions over 60 miles of open ocean to feed her family, was making her fifth trip to Trinidad when her boat capsized, costing her her life and the lives of two others assisting her. Her boat contained seven tons of flour, sugar, and cooking oil that she had obtained through barter at one of the west coast towns of Trinidad, exchanging them for the tons of fresh shrimp she had brought with her.
Others making the midnight trips would take with them anything of value to exchange for food and basic necessities, making the boats look like a floating garage sale: plastic chairs, house doors, ceramic cooking pots, and even exotic animals such as iguanas and macaws to trade for food.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
“Trinidad is less than 8 miles from Venezuela by sea.”
It depends on what point in Venezuela the starting point is.
See? Free Markets kill!
OTOH, Bread, biscuits, pasta, doughnuts keep better if no reliable freezer
“Cant the UN send in some MREs or something?”
They want them to be more desperate, so they can sell them to the oil companies to work on the platforms.
Incorrect comrade. She was a counterrevolutionary subversive./s She should have been bringing in guns and ammo along with the food.
I'll bet some Venezuelans are really regretting turning in their guns right about know
Wait til they get to ARUBA and CURACAO!!!
Any American with a decent sized boat should advertise in Venezualian criagslist for 2 or 3 18 year old female deckhands to join in a 6 month caribbean cruise with plenty of food...
How about some seeds and hoes.
I believe Neidermeyer just reference hoes.
Not a bad idea at all!
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