Posted on 12/14/2020 5:07:53 PM PST by xomething
At least 14 Venezuelans drowned this weekend attempting to escape the socialist country on a raft off the eastern state of Sucre, local authorities confirmed Monday.
Venezuelan coast guards found 11 people dead Saturday around seven miles off the coast. Three others washed up on the beach Sunday. Their bodies were later transferred to the morgue of the Central Hospital of Cumaná in the state capital of Sucre.
The victims are believed to have been trying to reach Trinidad and Tobago, presumably as an escape from the economic and humanitarian crisis in their homeland. In a statement confirming the tragic events, the Venezuelan regime attempted to shift the blame onto criminal gangs.
“All the security forces are in the task of investigating the events, so we do not rule out that there is a connection with criminal gangs in the area,” the statement read. “Coordination and links are maintained between the Venezuelan Government and the military authorities of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, supporting with their Coast Guard command and Search Mission by sea, as well as air support.”
The Trinidadian Coast Guard said in its own statement posted on Facebook that on Saturday “it received information from the Venezuelan authorities indicating 11 bodies had been recovered previously from the waters near the Venezuelan coastal town of Güiria.”
“Preliminary information suggests that a boat had left Güiria on December 6 with more than 20 people on board,” it added. “These people have not been seen or heard from since that day.”
The commissioner of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States for the crisis of Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees, David Smolansky, indicated the only way to prevent future tragedies from happening is the removal of the Maduro dictatorship.
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I don’t remember the last time any Americans got on a flimsy raft and tried to make it across to ocean to a better place (like Venezuela or Cuba). But perhaps we will start to see such desperation under President Harris.
I wish my niece would open her eyes about Socialism.
Do we have the same niece(s)?
Hopefully 5m or so California libtard voters will die NOT trying to escape socialism.
Dear people of Venezuela; Cubans and Iranians are tasty and nutritious.
Seems we most all do.
Seems we most all do.
Too sad. Those people would have been better for America than 1,000 aoc supporters.
They were sweet wonderful girls before they entered Libfactory Univeristy
Socialism on a raft? Does that mean everyone has to paddle?
A Canadian once tried that. In 1960, Pierre Trudeau attempted to paddle a canoe from Florida to Cuba.
Same here. Two of them.
During one of the last of Castro’s purges in one day offshore Florida I came across three rafts. Cobbled together with shipping pallets and inner tubes. None had anyone on board however there was one I will never forget. As I approached it I saw that they had fashioned a cross about 3 or 4 ft high out of steel re-bar.
That cross standing up on that raft really was erie.
I will tell you as one who has made a living on the sea that there has to be real desperation in people to throw together some planks and inner tubes and try to cross the Straits of Florida.
Do we have the same niece?
Shoot that’s nothing, we lose that many every hour swimming to Cuba for their free health care and equal opportunities only a Commie can provide.....
I find that most boy teens I know are conservative and most girls are far from it. Maybe the girl centric big edu is making conservative men.
I’m sure there are more than a few. College changed her.
Probably it means everyone had equal access to paddles, i.e. there were zero paddles, hence the accident.
I think we should be expecting a press conference from AOC or Bernie Sanders celebrating not only the joyously equal access to paddles on this journey, but also the glorious equality of outcome achieved here.
Commie “free” health care in Cuba....
Conservative radio host Bill Cunningham and Mick Jagger had the exact same heart procedure within a short time.
Bill noted “You’ll notice Mick Jagger left the socialist health system paradise of England to fly all the way to the USA of all places to have his surgery done. Didn’t choose to fly to Cuba, either.”
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