In Venezuela, hungry child gangs use machetes to fight for ‘quality’ garbage

Miami Herald ^ | March 27, 2018 | Eduard Freisler

[detective]

As Liliana picks lice from the tangled, thick hair of her boyfriend, Patricio, while they sit together on the sidewalk of a Caracas street, she’s also multi-tasking, keeping a watchful eye on her “family.” When a 10-year-old girl named Danianyeliz kneels down to drink water from a puddle, Liliana reproaches her, urging her to have a sip from a juice bottle they’ve just found in a garbage bag.

At 16, Liliana has become the mother figure for a gang of Venezuelan children and young adults called the Chacao, named after the neighborhood they’ve claimed as their territory. The 15 members, ranging in age from 10 to 23, work together to survive vicious fights for “quality” garbage in crumbling, shortage-plagued Venezuela. Their weapons are knives and sticks and machetes. The prize? Garbage that contains food good enough to eat.

[smileyface]

God Bless Margarita and Eduardo from Caracas, researchers I crossed paths with here in the USA, in the early 1990s.

[GOPJ]

This is what socialism is in real life.

Bingo!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper Ping - (Venezuela - survival becomes tribal)

" The 15 members, ranging in age from 10 to 23, work together to survive vicious fights for “quality” garbage in crumbling, shortage-plagued Venezuela.
Their weapons are knives and sticks and machetes.
The prize? Garbage that contains food good enough to eat."

It's the true; as stated by Freeper TigersEye : " #MarxForOurLives lives in Venezuela! "
H/T Diana, TigersEye, and TADSLOS

[TADSLOS]

#MarxForOurLives.. LMAO!

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[TigersEye]

100 million dead from socialism/communism in the 20th Century.

I'm sure they will try their best to break their record in the 21st.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Maybe these two could go down there and help.

Would that they would!

[definitelynotaliberal]

There needs to be a machete ban.

As if they didn’t have gangs before.

Since we’re being told the entire country is starving, how is it there is any garbage fit to eat? Servants of the elite will have already scavenged their over loards’ garbage.

Ya know, I was wondering the exact same thing. You would think the chefs and waiters would take home the food left on the plates at restaurants, too.

[Jacob Kell]

The price is wrong, bitch!

[4Liberty]

They’re flunking reality. Good luck with that, NPR.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Liliana. One of Sean Penn and Cindy Sheehan’s illegitimate “daughters of the revolution”?

I wonder how much money these Marxist fools have sent down there to feed the starving people who are living in a “Marxist nightmare of a prison” because Hollywood leftists gave so much support to the two communist dictators, Chavez and Maduro?

[metmom]

The comments section shows that people understand that socialism is behind where Venezuela is.

It’s like reading FR on the Miami Herald.

[Joe Boucher]

These fools did it to themselves and have only themselves to blame.

[simpson96]

Stuff like this OUGHT to be taught in public schools as a cautionary lesson. But that’s just a pipe dream, unfortunately. Libtard teachers believe that if they and their ilk gain power, we’ll move to socialism, and THIS time, it’ll be done right...

[Jack Hammer]

Welcome to The Workers’ Paradise.

Karl Marx breaks his nose on reality.