Fixed your spelling for 'ya. :D

Pat

I liiiike it! :cool:

Speaking of history:

Tastes like Statism, I mean chicken...complete article at link. And the Statists/Globalists want to spread the chaos and misery...

Venezuelans killing flamingos and anteaters to stave off hunger amid mounting food crisis
By Andrew O'Reilly Published February 10, 2017 FoxNews.com

Venezuela’s food crisis has gotten so bad that people are apparently killing pink flamingos and other protected animals in order to stave off hunger.

While flamingo hunting is both illegal and uncommon in the South American nation, investigators from Zulia University in the northwestern Venezuelan city of Maracaibo have noted at least 20 cases of bird carcasses being discovered with their breasts and torsos removed.

And flamingos aren’t the only unusual animal to become a victim of Venezuela’s worsening food crisis. Remains of everything from dogs and cats to donkeys and even giant anteaters have been found in garbage bags at city dumps around the country.

“Sometimes we only find the animal’s heads, guts and legs. We used to see this very little in the past, but this practice is now out of control and on the rise,” Robert Linares, a Maracaibo waste disposal worker, told the Miami Herald. Linares added he recently found on the street the remains of a dog that had been skinned and dismembered.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02...od-crisis.html

It's the new "bush meat" - which does not bode well.

Wonder how they'll spin the socialist experiment when the cannibalism begins. I'm sure somehow it will be countries who espouse capitalism fault that Venezuela failed so miserably.

A novel program of combined population control and food sustainability.

What's old is new again...

Soylent verde es la gente !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4

The socialist diet.

Study: Venezuelans lost 19 lbs. on average over past year due to lack of food
Published February 20, 2017 FoxNews.com

In a new sign that Venezuela’s financial crisis is morphing dangerously into a humanitarian one, a new nationwide survey shows that in the past year nearly 75 percent of the population lost an average of 19 pounds for lack of food.

The extreme poor said they dropped even more weight than that.

The 2016 Living Conditions Survey (Encovi, for its name in Spanish), conducted among 6,500 families, also found that as many as 32.5 percent eat only once or twice a day — the figure was 11.3 just a year ago.

In all, 82 percent of the nation's households live in poverty, the study found.

The lack of food has even earned a nickname: “The Maduro Diet.”

<snip> complete article at link.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02...lack-food.html

I suspect that the advice "find the socialists and kill them" would be discarded as being simplistic.
Maybe next year.
If there are any free citizens of the country alive.

Down to the last drop
 

Who could've ever imagined?

Article


Meanwhile, our foreign policy with Latin America, most notably Venezuela, is beginning to take shape.

Continued

DIY, thanks for those. Hey, Maduro, is that foreign policy too nuanced for ya?

I'll have to fire up the key this weekend & CQ YV and see if there's anyone down there yet that hasn't sold their radio to buy bread.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, so did aid to Cuba.

Cuba's economy went into freefall and Cubans on average also lost a considerable amount of weight.

Rates of cardiovascular disease in Cuba also collapsed in the period following the weight loss.

I'm waiting for Maduro/Venezuela to start promoting the benefits of the new "Venezuela Diet" from dumpster diving, eating flamingos, and just going hungry.

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It would be very interesting to see real time data(such as realtime "in the moment" smart phone surveys/polls) with a visual representation of when/where all those little guys transform from voting for anyone who promises to end their pain(parental pain of watching their kids go hungry) to eliminating the very people who are creating/enhancing that very pain.

Obviously Maduro and his Cuban/Russian/Iranian buddies will use every tool available to prevent/disrupt effective opposition from forming.

But ubiquitous mobile phone distribution globally must be one of the most disruptive pieces of technology to move at least slightly closer towards "science" on the art/science revolution continuum.

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Cuba is broke and dependant on Venezuela for free/cheap energy so I'm guessing is dug in like a tick to maintain the influence and gravy train.

Russia is going broke fast with cheap commodity prices, increasing foreign adventures to pay for its disruptive/influence foreign policy model.

Iran has access to more money due to nuclear deal, but has some very expensive foreign military adventures going on.

Outside of Cuba's undivided attention, I wonder how high on the list of priorities Venezuela is for Russia/Iran?

Would Maduro popping up in Pyongyang before Xmas be outside the realm of possibility?

What, like Kim Jong Nam?

...the Venezuelan people can only hope.

It would be interesting to hear unfiltered first person accounts.

Is there anything coming out from Venezuela similar to what "ferFAL" provided from Argentina, written by someone experiencing the crisis first hand?

The misery continues:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/03...gulations.html

Venezuela has a bread shortage
 

Another article on the bread situation

Venezuela has a bread shortage. The government has decided bakers are the problem.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...#storylink=cpy

OGOTA, Colombia

"Facing a bread shortage that is spawning massive lines and souring the national mood, the Venezuelan government is responding this week by detaining bakers and seizing establishments.

In a press release, the National Superintendent for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights said it had charged four people and temporarily seized two bakeries as the socialist administration accused bakers of being part of a broad “economic war” aimed at destabilizing the country...."

Right out of ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Bakeries can't produce bread? Just have the government FORCE them....

That's some progressive thinking right there.

+1 They must have an ex-pat named Wesley Mooch advising them. Watch the experiment fail, kiddies - let's see if it ever makes it to the history books that make their way into schools (holding breath not).

And if their business fails, they are de facto criminals and arrested as such and put on Venezuela's no-fly list. (I'll have to go back and find the article--it was linked from one of the other articles in this thread.

Your right Jim, this story has already been written with the title of ATLAS SHRUGGED. I am currently in the middle of this book right now.

Venezuela, end game....
 

Venezuela, can we predict what will be the tipping point? Where the people attempt to overthrow the current corrupt socialist/communist "leadership"?


I've not studied South America as much as other parts of the world. What's next a prolonged civil war?

VZ problems
 

I am amazed at how far they have fallen. Worked there in the 80s, and while they had a big underclass, it was a modern country, with anything you wanted available. Good sized middle class. They were proud of their history, and always told you about their Constitutional Democracy...Heh. Look what the Commies brought you to. And look how fast our Hollywierd celebs abandoned talking about the "new way" in VZ. They can all go to hell. Get exactly what they asked for...

Socialists Anonymous?
 

Isn't the first step to admit that one has a problem and that their life has become unmanageable?


Meanwhile, fourteen other countries urge Venezuela to re-establish a democracy...

"...regularize the whole medicine issue." = the whole world should gimme free stuff.

Has it been a month yet? Ten fingers says ten months and carry a few toes is another week. Hmmm...

:munchin

This could drag on a lot longer. Leftists don't admit failure or concede power unless forced to at the muzzle of a gun. Venezuela won't recover without bloodshed - a lot of it. I'm watching to see if I can recognizable the triggering event/tipping point when it happens and to determine if it's a unique event (special circumstances applicable only in Venezuela) or something with broad implications, replicable in other environments, that can be incorporated into a 21st Century "theory of revolutionary war" and put to practical application elsewhere.

"The United Nations has the most advanced plans to recover the pharmaceutical industry's productive capacity."

Meaning, of course, that Maduro believes that the UN can and should seize the world-wide pharmaceutical industry and force them to provide medicines to Venezuela, gratis, as you said. Socialism at its "finest".

Venezuela Lurches Toward Dictatorship as Top Court Seizes Power
 

Well, this sure escalates things.


Continued

Venezuela Complete Dictatorship
 

I think that train has already left the station.......

Venezuela rule is now a total dictatorship. Castro, Mao, Stalin and Che would all be proud.

The international community will go a little batshit crazy (full-on batshit is reserved for their views of Trump, Orban, Le Pen, etc); there will be some candles lit, some diplomatic outrage, lots of hand-wringing & denouncements, followed by... nothing. Stick a spork in it, it's done.

Just a matter of time...... and a few pallets of weapons
 

Socialist Dictator Nicolas Maduro your days are numbered. Just wait until the United States sends 10 pallets of weapons and ammunition to the "opposition". I'm sure sean penn will come and save you as soon as he's done shooting up.





Venezuela protesters throw eggs, objects at president during rally as unrest grows

By Alex Vasquez S.
·Published April 12, 2017
· FoxNews.com

Unrest in Venezuela went up a few notches in the last seven days, as protests against Nicolas Maduro’s government have become part of the daily agenda for the increasingly fiery opposition.

Demonstrators in Caracas were bombarded with tear gas from helicopters and police have not been shy to use their weapons — two 19-year-old protesters died after being shot and hundreds have been wounded, including a baby at a hospital that was hit by gas bombs.

“We have seen helicopters throwing bombs, collectives that encircle people and activate tear gas bombs [on them] — it happened to me,” said lawmaker Delsa Solorzano, who is among the victims of the government repression with a fractured rib.

Meanwhile, angry Venezuelans threw objects at President Maduro during a rally on Tuesday, as the unpopular leftist leader waved goodbye at the end of a military event. The state broadcaster then halted transmission.

cont:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04...est-grows.html

Someone in Venezuela needs to send Ivanka Trump a picture of the wounded baby and stand by for Tomahawks to arrive.

We're getting closer!
 

This is going to get ugly. Reminds me of when Noriega formed the Di(n)gbats (Batallones de la Dignidad). They were bad enough oppressing the opposition populace but at least they weren't armed.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04...g-tension.html

Time to kill heads of state
 

This communist dictator needs a dirt nap. Time to change the "elites rules" kill them first.


"Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro"

I don't think so, how about:

"Bottom-feeding communist dictator Nicolas Maduro"

Yeah that's better.
At least the left-wing news media is also carrying this story.




Apr 17, 9:06 PM EDT
VENEZUELA'S MADURO SEEKS TO EXPAND ARMED CIVILIAN MILITIAS
BY FABIOLA SANCHEZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS


CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced plans Monday to expand the number of civilians involved in armed militias as tensions in the crisis-wracked South American nation continued to rise.

Maduro said he hopes to expand the number of civilians involved in the Bolivarian militias created by the late Hugo Chavez to 500,000, up from the current 100,000, and provide each member with a gun.

Speaking to thousands of militia members dressed in beige uniforms gathered in front of the presidential palace to mark the force's seventh anniversary, Maduro said it is time for Venezuelans to decide if they are "with the homeland" or against it.

"Now is not the time to hesitate," he said.

The announcement comes as Maduro's opponents are gearing up for what they pledge will be the largest rally yet to press for elections and a host of other demands Wednesday.

Thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets since the Supreme Court stripped the National Assembly of its last vestiges of power nearly three weeks ago, a decision it later reversed. At least five people have been killed, dozens hurt and more than 100 detained in the demonstrations.

The Maduro government has vowed to hold a counter mass gathering Wednesday in defense of the socialist movement started by Chavez.



cont:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-17-21-06-15

Would say time for some night letters, but looks too late.

2 dead after more demonstrations
 

Many pics and a few local accounts, courtesy RT.

Sean Penn was unavailable for comment.

Word is getting out
 

And word is just getting out the government has taken over management of the GM plant.

I was a little surprised they hadn't done it sooner.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/many-po...sts-1492680607

It sounds like the people most badly hurt by the current state of affairs are apathetic toward any solution that involves working within Venezuela's political system, because even the organized opposition doesn't offer them any help. The only remaining options are to rebel, leave, or starve, and this article is leaning toward "starve."

Meanwhile, the protests continue, seemingly unabated....