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?
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.
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.
Why doesn’t Sean Penn fill up his little motor boat with money and go down there to hand it out?
Does this mean socialism does not work? Ow noes, tell me it’s not true!
But, they have free stuff, so much free stuff. Whatever is the problem????
We will only accept unmarried females less than 30, no kids above a 7 on the hot scale. There will be a weigh in.
Expats. A more humane gulag.