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Inside the slums of a socialist paradise: On the streets with Venezuela's murderous 'Crazy Boys'
Daily Mail ^ | 5/28/19 | Ross Ibbetson

Posted on 05/28/2019 2:24:58 AM PDT by Libloather

Venezuela's murderous 'Crazy Boys' make their living by kidnapping in one of the world's most violent cities, with lawlessness spreading in the failing socialist state.

Feared Caracas street gangster El Negrito, 24, sleeps with a silver revolver under his pillow and says he's lost track of his murder count.

But despite his bloody record, the killer says firing his gun has become a luxury with soaring inflation in President Nicolas Maduro's economy.

'If you empty your clip, you're shooting off $15,' said El Negrito, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition he be identified only by his street name and photographed wearing a hoodie and face mask to avoid attracting unwelcome attention. 'You lose your pistol or the police take it and you're throwing away $800.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: paradise; slums; socialist; venezuela
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Bullets are expensive at $1 each and with less cash circulating on the street, he says robberies just don't pay like they used to.

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Full title - Inside the slums of a socialist paradise: On the streets with Venezuela's murderous 'Crazy Boys' who make their living by kidnapping in one of the most violent cities in the world

1 posted on 05/28/2019 2:24:58 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

>> If you empty your clip ...

Uh, SlumPedro - it’s magazine.


2 posted on 05/28/2019 2:30:33 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: QBFimi

He was talking about a revolver. It’s neither at that point.


3 posted on 05/28/2019 2:36:04 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Libloather

What can you rob from people who have nothing?


4 posted on 05/28/2019 2:46:27 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: QBFimi

Revolvers don’t have “clips”. More claptrap from the MSM.


5 posted on 05/28/2019 2:58:26 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: QBFimi

Revolvers don’t have “clips”. More claptrap from the MSM.


6 posted on 05/28/2019 2:58:58 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Libloather

Damn, they almost said a gun free socialist paradise, where bullets are expensive and life is cheap.


7 posted on 05/28/2019 3:01:31 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: VTenigma

I have two revolvers that use clips.


8 posted on 05/28/2019 3:06:47 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: VTenigma

Indeed, they want to associate guns with stupid gangsta linguo to make guns look bad. (I am 100% sure they were not talking about moon clips that they have no idea about in English media).

One must wonder who is crazier, the so called Crazy Boys or the British sheep press that create these gun free zone accross the world throught the UN? We are again where the Jews get carted in trains , crazily submitting


9 posted on 05/28/2019 3:07:54 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Dusty Road

I am pretty sure his did not have moon clips , though. Does not sound like he was using automatic weapon bullets in his revolver.


10 posted on 05/28/2019 3:10:22 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

Yes, the half-moon clips were created to allow S&W .45 Auto Rim revolvers to fire .45 ACP ammo. Way cheaper!


11 posted on 05/28/2019 3:16:59 AM PDT by W. (NRA life member! Cost me 500 bones, but oh, well!)
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Just giving him a little gas, I’ve got two 1917’s, Colt and S&W.


12 posted on 05/28/2019 3:20:48 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Libloather

The average salary this article says is $6.50 a month. I know money can be stretched further in third world toilets but dang how do you live on that? I guess many don’t anymore.


13 posted on 05/28/2019 3:21:24 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather

btt


14 posted on 05/28/2019 3:33:40 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: xp38

Well, there’s no worry about the cost of toilet paper, since none exists down there.


15 posted on 05/28/2019 3:43:05 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
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To: VTenigma

It’s those darned semi-automatic assault revolvers and their high-capacity automatic clips with military bullets! If they ban those, crime will disappear.


16 posted on 05/28/2019 3:52:40 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: JudgemAll

Their average reader probably thinks you load a revolver with a magazine (”clip”) and it can magically shoot hundreds of rounds full-auto like a belt-fed machine gun.


17 posted on 05/28/2019 3:58:57 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: ScottinVA

I saw an article last year about Venezuela that had a pic of a woman walking back from shopping in Columbia and she was carrying toilet paper. The brand name was Elite. I got a chuckle out of that.


18 posted on 05/28/2019 4:02:01 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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dang how do you live on that

U don't. you invade America

19 posted on 05/28/2019 4:13:35 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: rarestia

Could be a moon clip.


20 posted on 05/28/2019 4:52:58 AM PDT by 03A3 (FTNFL)
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