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Witnessing a ‘Complete Collapse of Society’ in Venezuela
TIME ^ | August 9, 2016 | by Olivier Laurent

Posted on 08/09/2016 2:29:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Alvaro Ybarra Zavala puts it bluntly: “Venezuela has become hell.”

The photographer had just returned from one of his latest trips to the South American nation when he talked to TIME, and he was visibly affected by the chaos he had witnessed there. “There’s a complete collapse of society,” he said.

Once an example for the continent, Venezuela is now a country in freefall. “It’s hard to find food, there’s no medicine,” said Ybarra Zavala. “If you have to have surgery, you need to bring everything with you: the bandages, the gloves, everything. There are no anesthetics.”

Ybarra Zavala was on assignment for TIME last month, chronicling the country’s breakdown. His photographs show daily street protests that are often violently repressed, empty shelves in deserted grocery stores and people lining up, sometimes for entire days, for gas. “No one believes anymore in the army, in the police, in the system,” said Ybarra Zavala.

The photographer - who’s worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia - said Venezuela is the “hardest place I’ve worked in”.

The collapse, set in motion by Hugo Chavez’s 14-year reign, now seems irreversible, he adds: “For the last four years, Venezuela has been in constant crisis and it never blew up. But now, I’m very scared of how it will end. I think Venezuela crossed the line of no return. I’m worried what will happen next.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; argentina; communism; failure; greece; hell; socialism; spain; venezuela; venezuelacollapse
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
more like Witnessing the Culmination of Socialism...
41 posted on 08/09/2016 3:21:51 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama policies at work!


42 posted on 08/09/2016 3:26:07 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: blam
The oil price collapse didn’t help this situation either. Most of the Chavez social programs were supported by oil revenue.

The Saudi welfare state is also supported by oil revenues.

43 posted on 08/09/2016 3:27:30 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I wonder what the (reported) unemployment rate is in Venezuela, it’s gotta be like 2-3% or lower now? Is that how things will be here in the US when ours gets that low under Hillary?


44 posted on 08/09/2016 3:48:18 PM PDT by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: blam

Never put all your eggs in one basket.


45 posted on 08/09/2016 3:55:45 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...and that dead commie a-hole’s daughter is worth several billion US dollars.


46 posted on 08/09/2016 3:56:21 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: hal ogen

And were ten years behind them….


47 posted on 08/09/2016 4:05:29 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Witnessing a ‘Complete Collapse of Society’ in Venezuela

This is, of course, exactly what the left wants to happen here. Then they will restructure the USA in their wet dream of a Marxist society.

48 posted on 08/09/2016 4:06:31 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; stephenjohnbanker; ...

Current President Nicholas Carudo is the worst President in years, even more autocratic than Hugo Chavez ever was. On top of everything else, Venezuela has endured a drought, the worst in years. Things are so bad, most animals in the Caracas zoo have starved. No one has ever seen anything like this. This could become a massive humanitarian crisis.

There are a lot of good people who opposed both Chavez and Carudo who are caught in this and they deserve our sympathy.


49 posted on 08/09/2016 4:08:28 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Send every American professor and journalist down there.


50 posted on 08/09/2016 4:09:32 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Clintonfatigued; Oldeconomybuyer; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead

“There are a lot of good people who opposed both Chavez and Carudo who are caught in this and they deserve our sympathy.”

I am friends with one here in AZ who managed to get out.


51 posted on 08/09/2016 4:11:17 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Cheerio

“The taste of what is to come under another RAT regime.”

You must live in a friggin’ sh*thole if you’re expecting to wait in line for TP and eat your pets.


52 posted on 08/09/2016 4:14:50 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Image result for socialism
53 posted on 08/09/2016 4:18:30 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Danny Glover could buy them quite a lot of medicine if he
would give back the 20 million dollars he stole from
Venezuela for the movie he was paid for and never delivered.


54 posted on 08/09/2016 4:19:58 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bookmark


55 posted on 08/09/2016 4:55:53 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Been saying that for years now.


56 posted on 08/09/2016 4:59:29 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: rbg81

If you read the article, the writer is still very sympathetic to socialism in the face of incontrovertible evidence of it’s failure.


57 posted on 08/09/2016 5:31:31 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk

As the last line indicates, he blames the failure on “popularism”, not socialism (or Marxism).


58 posted on 08/09/2016 5:33:06 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looking at those two in the picture, the word that comes to my mind is where pork comes from. Both Communist pigs.


59 posted on 08/09/2016 5:39:57 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: Augie; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Prepper Ping list

" Venezuela is now a country in freefall" - Time.com

hat tip to DuncanWaring !

60 posted on 08/09/2016 5:50:10 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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