The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of Venezuela.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo
Posted on 07/22/2015 8:31:43 AM PDT by C19fan
Venezuela's embattled government has taken the drastic step of forcing food producers to sell their produce to the state, in a bid to counter the ever-worsening shortages. Farmers and manufacturers who produce milk, pasta, oil, rice, sugar and flour have been told to supply between 30 per cent and 100 per cent of their products to the state stores. Shortages, rationing and queues outside supermarkets have become a way of life for Venezuelans, as their isolated country battles against rigid currency controls and a shortage of US dollars – making it difficult for Venezuelans to find imported goods.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Animals in the wild = graze in common field and fight over scraps = communist
Troglodyte Neanderthals = hunter-gatherers = socialist
Man = farming.. saves and puts seeds in ground, workes it to a harvest of greater return = capitalist
Now they are entering the literal starvation phase of their stupid experiment.
Sounds uncharitable, but I hope it continues.
Half the world needs a constant reminder of the evils of socialism thrust in its face, lest it always forgets. Better it happen there, and we can watch.
This is sickly, sadly fitting. Chavez rose to power by pitting the poor, rural farming people against the urban, modernized Venezuelans. He promised the farmers that he would spread the wealth of the city people and make their lives more fair.
Now the farmers, who have always been poor, have to give up their own meager belongings to feed the monster they created.
What a beautiful country, and how it has been destroyed. I graduated from HS in Caracas and loved it.
How do you say “Kulak” in Espanol?
Ping.
Too proud to buy from us.
I suspect there will be a lot of fires in the fields from ‘lightning strikes’ soon..................................
Venezuela has finally achieved Communism, at least according to this version of the old truism:
Socialism
You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.
Communism
You have two cows. The government takes them both and provides you with milk.
Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes them and sells you the milk.
Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Us.
he’ll expropriate the farms and turn them into collective farms, just like Joe Stalin did. Worked real well for him and millions of dead Russians.
The Left is anti humanity!!!!
The selfish fools who think themselves such masters of the universe want most people dead.
Because they see people as needing to be managed by them...the less people...the less management.
I have come to believe that “Liberals” poor word for describing this bunch;they should be more accurately be called sociopaths and pyschopaths.
A collection of people that project caring and compassion only to lure their victims into servitude, destruction, and death!
BTW...most politicians dem or repub are sociopaths....Federal...State and Local!!!!!
We the people need a better system of governance.
“When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.”
That is a powerful statement - I did not see it in the article, is that yours?
I would love to use it (and attribute it to the correct source, of course.)
The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of Venezuela.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo
The peasants of Venezuela will see very little of the confiscated and redistributed food. It will be siphoned off by the corrupt communist ruling class and what they don't eat will be sold by them on the black market.
I have not since 1996.
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