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Post by Daniel on May 17, 2016 19:27:10 GMT -5
Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: "Countless Wounded" After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food
by Tyler Durden on 05/15/2016
Over the last several years we have documented with clockwork regularity Venezuela's collapse into failed state status, which was cemented several weeks ago when news hit that "Venezuela had officially run out of money to print new money." At that point the best one could do was merely to step back and watch as local society and civilization turned on itself, unleashing what would ultimately turn into Venezuela's own, sad apocalypse.
As we wrote then these are simply hungry Venezuelans protesting that their children are dying from lack of food and medicine and that they do not have enough water or electricity. As AgainstCronyCapitalism added, this is a country with more oil than Saudi Arabia, and the government has stolen all the money and now they bottleneck peaceful protesters and threaten them with bombs (or haul them to prison and torture them).
As pure desperation has set in, crime has becomes inevitable. A man accused of mugging people in the streets of Caracas was surrounded by a mob of onlookers, beaten and set on fire, who published a pixeled-out but still graphic video of the man burning as mob justice is now the supreme arbiter of who lives and who dies:
"Roberto Fuentes Bernal, 42, was reportedly caught trying to mug passersby in the Venezuelan capital, and before police arrived at the scene, the crowd took the law into their own hands."
Now, in the latest shocking development, Venezuela saw a new wave of looting this week that resulted in at least two deaths, countless wounded, and millions of dollars in losses and damages.
According to Panampost, on Wednesday morning, a crowd sacked the Maracay Wholesale Market in the central region of Venezuela. According to the testimonies of merchants, the endless food lines that Venezuelans have been enduring to do groceries could not be organized that day.
As time went by, desperate Venezuelans grew anxious over not being able to buy food. Then they started jumping over the gates and stormed the supermarket.
more
www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-13/scenes-venezuela-apocalypse-countless-wounded-after-5000-loot-supermarket-looking-fo
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Post by Daniel on May 17, 2016 19:34:16 GMT -5
Venezuela "Apocalyptic Collapse" No Food And Crime Waves
Paul Begley
Published on May 17, 2016
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Post by fearnot on May 19, 2016 14:15:47 GMT -5
No not exactly the the promised socialist paradise.....it just doesn't seem to work.
It sounds 'good' but those who are for Bernie maybe should take a closer look at its history and present reality.
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Post by Daniel on May 24, 2016 15:41:46 GMT -5
Venezuela descends into anarchy — and its Canadian defenders are awfully quiet
Ezra Levant
May 19, 2016
In Venezuela, the high price of oil has helped cover up the disaster of a centrally-planned economy, run by a corrupt strongman. But now that oil is low, the disaster of socialism has nothing to save it.
They’re so poor they don’t have the money to pay the printing presses to print money. There are rolling electricity black-outs in the country. The capital, Caracas, now has the highest murder rate in the world — crime, politics, revenge, whatever.
People are literally starving there, eating dogs and cats and pigeons. A mob burned a man alive over five dollars.
Of course, the ruling elites are doing just fine. Hugo Chavez’s daughter, Maria Gabriela Chavez, has a net worth of $4.2 billion, stolen from the country by her late father.
But — what about all the people in the west, in Hollywood, even in Canada, who have held Venezuela up a role model?
continue reading
www.therebel.media/ezra_levant_may_19
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Post by fearnot on May 24, 2016 22:09:01 GMT -5
We are not hearing much about this in our news are we?
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Post by oliverwithatwist on May 25, 2016 7:44:10 GMT -5
Of course not. Maybe Sean Penn will go down there for another visit.
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Post by fearnot on May 25, 2016 11:18:34 GMT -5
Of course not. Maybe Sean Penn will go down there for another visit. |
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Post by Daniel on Jun 2, 2016 8:27:16 GMT -5
8 Lessons That We Can Learn From The Epic Economic Meltdown In Venezuela
By Michael Snyder
June 01, 2016
We are watching an entire nation collapse right in front of our eyes. As you read this article, there are severe shortages of just about anything you can imagine in Venezuela. That includes food, toilet paper, medicine, electricity and even Coca-Cola.
All over the country, people are standing in extremely long lines for hours on end just hoping that they will be able to purchase some provisions for their hungry families. At times when there hasn't been anything for the people that have waited in those long lines, full-blown riots have broken out.
All of this is happening even though Venezuela has not been hit by a war, a major natural disaster, a terror attack, an EMP burst or any other type of significant "black swan" event. When debt spirals out of control, currency manipulation goes too far and government interference reaches ridiculous extremes, this is what can happen to an economy.
The following are 8 lessons that we can learn from the epic economic meltdown in Venezuela...
#1 During an economic collapse, severe shortages of basic supplies can happen very rapidly...
#2 If you have not stored up food ahead of time, your diet could quickly become very simple during a major emergency. The Los Angeles Times recently covered the plight of a 42-year-old single mother in Venezuela named Maria Linares, and according to the story her family has not had any chicken to eat since last December...
#3 When people get hungry, they become very desperate. And very desperate people will eat just about anything.
In a recent article, I detailed the fact that some people down in Venezuela have already become so desperate that they are actually hunting dogs and cats for food.
Could you ever do that?..
#4 When an economy melts down, it isn't just food that is in short supply. This week, there have been several mainstream news stories about the severe shortage of toiletries in Venezuela...
#5 If you need medical care during a major economic meltdown, you might be out of luck. Just consider what sick Venezuelans are going through right at this moment...
#6 During a currency meltdown, owning precious metals such as gold and silver becomes much more important. This even applies to entire countries. So far during this crisis, Venezuela has had to ship 2.3 billion dollars worth of gold to Switzerland because the bankers won't take their paper currency any longer...
#7 When an economy crashes, crime goes through the roof. As I discussed the other day, there were 107 major episodes of looting or attempted looting in the first quarter of 2016 down in Venezuela, and things have gotten even worse over the past couple of months.
#8 This may be the most controversial lesson in the list. Sometimes it takes a shaking to awaken a nation. Of course nobody really likes to go through a shaking, but in the end it can have some very positive results. Just look at what is happening in Caracas...
read full article
www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=379
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Post by Daniel on Jan 18, 2018 11:40:01 GMT -5
What Happens When Socialists Run Out of Other People’s Money
By Daniel Greenfield January 17, 2018
Prime Minister Thatcher once famously observed that socialists “always run out of other people’s money.” But what actually happens when socialism runs out of money?
Venezuela, a once wealthy nation with black gold coming out of the ground, is a test case.
The socialist regime ran out of other people’s money, and then out of money, years ago. The government met protests by its starving population with a 40% minimum wage hike. That’s the usual socialist solution to what leftists call ‘income inequality’. The problem is that 40% of nothing is still zero.
The “Strong Bolivar” introduced by former dictator Hugo Chavez, who died of an overdose of Cuba’s socialist medicine, leads the world in one economic category: a 3,000% inflation rate. Currently, a dollar will buy you 111,413.23 bolivars. Wait a while and there will be a better bargain in bolivars because economists are forecasting a 30,000% inflation rate. In Venezuela, even the poorest American can become a millionaire in bolivars. The only question is why would anyone actually want bolivars?
The socialist currency of the revolution isn’t counted, it’s weighed on scales. The only thing “strong” about the bolivar is the exercise you get from carrying bags of them everywhere. You could forge bolivars, but the fake money would cost you more than the real money. If you can actually print bolivars, go ahead and get in touch with the Venezuelan government which can’t afford to print its own money.
Venezuela’s central bank (under socialism, everything is centralized) can’t pay for the paper to print all the worthless money. And none of the companies that might sell the socialists the paper will take its worthless paper money in exchange for their paper. There’s no point in printing anything less than 50 bolivar notes because they’re worth less than the cost of the paper. But putting Obamanomics in action, Venezuela ordered billions of more bills: more than the United States and Europe have combined.
Paying for minimum wage hikes by printing money doesn’t actually work. That 40% minimum wage hike comes as the buying power of Venezuelans can drop by 50% in one month. The socialist regime keeps printing money and inflation keeps skyrocketing. A 30,000% inflation rate by the end of 2018 is a conservative estimate. More liberal estimates peg it at 200,000%. And then the sky’s the limit.
Is Venezuela’s finance minister out of his mind? No, he’s a leftist. So he believes inflation doesn’t exist.
more
www.breakingisraelnews.com/101091/happens-socialists-run-peoples-money-opinion/
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Post by Daniel on Apr 14, 2019 9:31:41 GMT -5
Socialist Venezuela now an exploding supernova of spreading infectious disease
By Monica Showalter April 9, 2019
So much for all that free health care.
Now for what it looks like up close:
Socialist Venezuela is an exploding supernova of spreading disease vectors, with its three million fleeing refugees bringing measles, malaria, diptheria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, AIDS, Zika, leprosy, dengue, chikungunya virus, and other diseases long thought to have been eradicated in the early 20th century, with them.
What an advertisement for socialism that is.
It's the effect of the collapse of the country's medical system, brought on by socialism's unsustainable economics and Venezuela's Maduro dictatorship (unlike a lot of starving African countries) refusing to permit any aid to enter.
Two alarming news reports (which eerily don't intersect) have the exact same story...
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Post by Daniel on May 3, 2019 8:23:32 GMT -5
WALSH: If You Favor Socialism, You Are Welcome To Move To Any Socialist Hellhole You Like
By Matt Walsh May 1, 2019
As the socialist country of Venezuela falls apart before our eyes — once the wealthiest country in South America, and now, after decades of socialism, a failed state — it is troubling to note that many in my generation wish to adopt the same system that led directly to the chaos we are seeing in that country. Almost half of those in the Millennial and Generation Z generations say they would prefer to live under socialism, and they are being rapidly herded to that position by the the prominent avowed socialists in the Democratic Party like Bernie Sander and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Following demographic trends, it is not inconceivable that we could have our own Venezuela moment in another 20 or 30 years.
But for anyone still on the fence about whether to advocate socialism or not, I think there is a very simple test that should clarify things for you. Take a look at the socialist countries in the world today. Would you like to live in any of these places? If socialism is a good idea — let alone a path to Utopia, which is how AOC presents it — then there should be in existence today a number of socialist countries that you, a socialist, might consider moving to. So, which one? Venezuela? North Korea? China? Tanzania? Sri Lanka? Nicaragua? Would you even want to spend a weekend in any of these places?
Of course, the socialist sympathizer in America will immediately cite Denmark or Sweden as socialist successes. The problem with calling the Nordic countries socialist successes is that they are not socialist at all. Let the Prime Minster of Denmark speak for himself on the topic:
I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.
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