Posted on 08/15/2018 12:10:07 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
An estimated 2.3 million Venezuelans had fled the crisis-wracked country as of June, mainly to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, the United Nations said Tuesday.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that those fleeing — about 7 percent of Venezuela’s 32.8 million people — cite lack of food as the main reason for leaving. U.N. humanitarian officials report that 1.3 million of those who fled were “suffering from malnourishment,” he said.
Oil-rich Venezuela has been sinking deeper into an economic and political crisis. Hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine are battering the country, and the International Monetary Fund projects inflation could top 1 million percent by year’s end.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Good, there’s plenty of room for US Demonrats to experience Socialism.
You know things are bad when Columbia and Ecuador look better than your current country.
Navy Patriot, just for you:
“Democrats howl about Putin’s offenses, but not in Latin America.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-other-russian-meddling-1532290196
The real Russian meddling is happening in Latin America and Putin is working to keep Maduro going. Along with Ortega in Nicaragua, which is a bloody mess.
Well, some people are never satisfied. All that freedom and food and they run away from it....
Let’s replace them with American professors!
As long as they don’t come to the USA, I’m fine with it.
I won’t click the link. But is there any mention at all in the article about what caused the crisis in Venezuela? Like for instance socialism?
Yes, the S-word word is mentioned once.
This acts as a safety valve for the regime. The smartest, most ambitious and most forward-thinking people are the ones who are leaving. The ones left behind are those less likely to revolt. Castro used the same strategy in Cuba get rid of the potential troublemakers, leaving a more docile population to rule.
Yep, makes no sense. Anybody can buy 875,000 gallons of gasoline for a mere $1. Sounds like the ultimate definition of utopia to me.
Well, it seems that American DemoRats are two faced Anti American, Fake News, False Flag Fascists that project their own treasonous motives as accusations against President Trump, while supporting and protecting Socialism, Mob Rule, Maduro and Ortega to the detriment of American Patriots and Culture, but you have trouble pointing that out.
Oh, ... and that Putin is President of the Russian Federation.
No, no, you don't understand Socialism.
The rich people ate all the food, and drank up all the money.
That made them sick, so they requisitioned all the medicine.
Things will get better now without the rich pigs on hand. Foot. Or hoof. Etc.
I made a transcription of the whole program (it is 42 minutes in length) with the idea of somehow putting it here on Free Republic, but there are a couple of problems with it:
For example, one of the things that becomes clear when you watch it several times is that one of the people they are interviewing — and keep coming back to over and over — was a big Chavez supporter, who has a government pension which has dwindled to almost nothing due to inflation.
The video is done almost entirely as interviews, with no comment from a narrator.
They spend about five minutes talking about this thing called a Carne de la Patria card; the expression means literally "meat of the fatherland."
A Carne de la Patria allows the owner to get one package of food, consisting of a few potatoes or a kilogram of rice, and a few vegetables, once every two months.
In order to get a Carne de la Patria, you have to agree to (1) vote for the government candidates in all elections, (2) attend all government rallies and demonstrations, and (3) inform on anyone in your neighborhood who is anti-government in any way.
The documentary was made by Deutche Welle, and is very powerful and shocking. Many of the expatriate Venezuelans have gone to Colombia; there are tens of thousands in the border town of Cucuta. There is video of a street band who sing and play for pennies; everyone in the band is either an engineer or a bureaucrat; one was a high-school art teacher back in Venezuela. Amazing. Also amazing is how careful they are not to criticize Venezuela other than very slightly and obliquely.
Keep an eye out for it, perhaps it will show up elsewhere on the internet.
I have the transcript in an excel spreadsheet so I can keep track of the minute of each sentence. I can post it if anyone wants.
They all fled to Florida, or so it seems.
Socialism is mentioned once, but CondoleezzaProtege informs us it is Putin.
Thanks Tom.
Why doesn’t Sean Penn fill up his little motor boat with money and go down there to hand it out?
VENEZUELA'S MADURO THANKS PUTIN FOR SUPPORT IN DIFFICULT TIMES (Reuters)
“I’m very thankful for the agreement on grain, it has helped keep consumption in Venezuela stable,” Maduro said.
Because he used the money on drugs?
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