Posted on 12/22/2018 1:16:06 PM PST by Baynative
Thousands upon thousands of Venezuelans pour into Colombia over the crowd cross-country bridge, their faces gaunt, carrying little more than a backpack. Rail-thin women cradle their tiny babies, and beg along the trash-strewn gutters. Teens hawk everything from cigarettes to sweets and water for small change.
The young, the old and the disabled cluster around the lone Western Union office – recently established to deal with the Venezuelan influx – in the hopes of receiving or sending a few dollars to send home. Without passports or work permits, the Venezuelans – many with university degrees or decent jobs in what was once the wealthiest nation in Latin America – are now resorting to whatever it takes to survive.~snip~
One Venezuelan mother, 30-year-old Marie Chaparral, routinely treks across to Colombia to seek healthcare and vaccines for her three young children, one being only a few weeks old. She explained that she, like most expectant mothers in Venezuela, had to buy all necessary birthing procedural needs – from the painkillers to the scalpels to the towels and hospital gowns – on the black market in Colombia. Only then, lugging all her things to the hospital, would a doctor in Venezuela oversee the birth.
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Those 2 idiots would come back bragging about how the economy is thriving with all kinds of entrepreneurs out selling stuff everywhere.
Desperate women selling hair, breast milk and sex. First two words that come to mind after reading that are filth and disease.
Remember that this country voted for Obama, not once, but twice. And way down there in Venezuela the Left steals elections too. Even if Jimmy Carter said the election was on the level.
Works for me.
Frankly they probably wouldn’t survive 6 years there. Sounds pretty dangerous country, these days.
[Remember that this country voted for Obama, not once, but twice.]
Yes, there are astonishing levels of blantant stupidity in American Democrats these days.
I call it the beginnings of the strong delusion. They really think they’re smarter than the rest of us.
Why doesn’t Columbia close the freaking bridge??
They really think they’re smarter than the rest of us.
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Speaking of that,
There is one member here with the tag line
“Freepers: Not as smart as I’d hoped they’d be”
He’s one of the most obnoxious and ignorant people that post here
They would come back with glowing reports. Smiling pics with Cuban doctors delivering wonderful free healthcare. Handshakes with workers touting the manna from heaven government of Maduro. All staged. The crazed media lapping up every bit of it. Chomsky was convinced that reports coming out of Cambodia was just CIA propaganda. The two loons you mention no doubt believe the same about Maduro’s paradise
They got what they voted for.
I’m all-in for raising $5 towards one-way tickets for Occasional-Cortex and Comrade Bernie!
Excellent.
Marry a woman from a distressed nation and you marry her entire family & become its richest member.
Then you bring her to the land of the big PX and as soon as she gets her green card, it’s AMF!
That is true. So the better educated and assimilated the woman the better chance with the family. The classic bad news situation is some very overweight 50 something American male that long distance courts a 20 yro Filipina from a small city on one of the islands who has a very limited command of English.
What good are bullets with no guns with which to shoot them? Yes, they commies confiscated all the handguns about 5 years ago...
I know someone very worried about family stuck there.
The socialist gov’t created a mess for everyone there.
Hope the people are able to turn their country around.
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