Venezuela Is Starving

[Krugminator2]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezue...ing-1493995317

Once Latin America’s richest country, Venezuela can no longer feed its people, hobbled by the nationalization of farms as well as price and currency controls

Hordes of people, many with children in tow, rummage through garbage, an uncommon sight a year ago. People in the countryside pick farms clean at night, stealing everything from fruits hanging on trees to pumpkins on the ground, adding to the misery of farmers hurt by shortages of seed and fertilizer. Looters target food stores. Families padlock their refrigerators.

Three in four Venezuelans said they had lost weight last year, an average of 19 pounds, according to the National Poll of Living Conditions, an annual study by social scientists. People here, in a mix of rage and humor, call it the Maduro diet after President Nicolás Maduro.

Bernie Sanders' America

[undergroundrr]

One headline - "Wanna Lose Weight? Move To Venezuela."

This article is great - https://fee.org/articles/venezuelas-...ing-headlines/

Venezuela's Socialist Hellscape, Captured in 28 Horrifying Headlines

Daniel J. Mitchell
Daniel J. Mitchell

Monday, May 01, 2017


Iwrote last year that Venezuela was entering the “fourth circle of statist hell.”

How else, after all, can you describe a government that is so venal and incompetent that it resorts to confiscating toys in an effort to strengthen its hold on power?

I also wrote last year that Atlas was “shrugging” in Venezuela.

But shrugging may soon turn to shrugged. It’s hard to see how Maduro’s despotic regime can hold power much longer. Consider this collection of horrifying stories.

More at link

[tod evans]

[AZJoe]

[Republicanguy]

Sadly, the politicians of that state didn't think more about having more than just one industry for profit.

[Occam's Banana]

Sadly, the politicians of that state didn't think more about having more than just one industry for profit.

Why should they? Profit is for greedy narcissists, after all.

According to you, the needs of parasitic moochers reign supreme.

Venezuela embodies the ideal for which you yearn. Own it or STFU.

[Republicanguy]

You are stupid. All you think is somehow one commodity, that being the life blood of modern society is social democracy or socialist policies. Socialist policies are about taking the nastiness out of business, that goes unfettered in certain circles in capitalist society.

Why should they? Profit is for greedy narcissists, after all.

According to you, the needs of parasitic moochers reign supreme.

Venezuela embodies the ideal for which you yearn. Own it or STFU.

[r3volution 3.0]

Socialist policies are about taking the nastiness out of business, that goes unfettered in certain circles in capitalist society.

capitalists being denastified

[Occam's Banana]

You are stupid. All you think is somehow one commodity, that being the life blood of modern society is social democracy or socialist policies. Socialist policies are about taking the nastiness out of business, that goes unfettered in certain circles in capitalist society.

Go tell it to all the Venezuelans who can't even get toilet paper to wipe their asses with.

Then come back and yap at us about "one commodity" and the "nastiness" of capitalism ...

[juleswin]

capitalists being denastified

Context, that is what that pic lack. I am not going to say anything more until I know the full context of whats going on. For all we know, those guys could have been caught raping little babies, tried in a court of law and then executed

But if that is a capitalists being denastified supposedly by evil evil socialists, then what is the video below showing? capitalists killing field? but wait, I know what you are going to say. But that is not true capitalism and you be right and the socialists would also say nazis are not true socialists and where does that get anyone?

[AuH20]

Aren't the sick piling into Brazil for healthcare?

[AZJoe]

[angelatc]

[Suzanimal]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Republicanguy Parasiticmoocherguy again.

[Republicanguy]

Are some people here just being fools. Seriously, how childish can be people be from the liberty side. I mean the Gary Johnson conference with other Liberty nuts was just to laugh at.

[r3volution 3.0]

Are some people here just being fools[?]

Yes, those defending the Maduro regime.

[Suzanimal]

Are some people here just being fools. Seriously, how childish can be people be from the liberty side. I mean the Gary Johnson conference with other Liberty nuts was just to laugh at.

[oyarde]

I am having a hard time picturing " liberty nuts " with Johnson . Probably , mostly anti war , peaceful stoners .

[merkelstan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

This seems to be a factor in Venezuela's woes as well.

[Republicanguy]

Venezuela was run by a dictator who rallied the poor. He had a bad way of governing, and solely used crude oil to make money to pay for the social programs. It was short sighted. Don't be stupid, one country out there doesn't represent social democracy.

Chavez came from poverty, both his parents were poor. He was ignorant about diversity in the state.

As for the Libetarian conference, you couldn't defend it. It was ridiculous full of stupid people, who couldn't take people's lives seriously.

[r3volution 3.0]

Venezuela was run by a dictator who rallied the poor. He had a bad way of governing, and solely used crude oil to make money to pay for the social programs. It was short sighted. Don't be stupid, one country out there doesn't represent social democracy.

Chavez came from poverty, both his parents were poor. He was ignorant about diversity in the state.

The problem isn't that the economy the Venezuelan state attempts to centrally plan relies largely on oil.

The problem is that the Venezuelan state attempts to centrally plan the economy at all.

The result would have been the same had the Venezuelan economy been highly diversified.

[merkelstan]

Hm, total pop (2015) 31.1 million, cost to feed a refugee $19/month = $7.09 billion to feed all Venezuelans per year.

Daughter of Hugo Chavez net worth, $4.2 billion, according to Diaro las Americas.
Alejandro Andrade - Venezuela's ex treasury minister - $11.2 billion.
The rest of the socialist leadership worth ??? billion?
GDP in 2017: 404.1 Billion (Wikipedia)
Exports: $28.07 billion. (Wikipedia)


CAN'T FEED ITS OWN PEOPLE

[AZJoe]

[Pauls' Revere]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...rike-next-week


Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, defying a threat of U.S. sanctions and calls by his opponents for two days of general strikes this week, vowed to press on with a vote to elect a new national assembly and rewrite the constitution.

“Who doesn’t go vote next Sunday is hurting the Republic of Venezuela, is hurting the right for peace, because what we are deciding here next week is between peace or war, violence or the constituent assembly,” according to a statement issued Sunday.

Maduro reinforced his determination to hold the July 30 vote after Venezuela’s opposition party called for a 48-hour general strike in Caracas Wednesday and Thursday.

[Madison320]

Bernie Sanders' America

Yup. Why is it that the same people who can easily see how destructive socialism is in Venezuela, can't see it how destructive it is in the US?

"Our top story tonight here on CNN, Venezuela's citizens are starving" "Later, we discuss why the US minimum wage needs to be raised"

[brushfire]

Too bad they didnt have a bunch of oil reserves... oh wait... Socialism must be the key ingredient in this epic fail.

[gaazn]

Venezuela is overrated. How can they have huge and open mass protests and still hold up as a nation. That means the opposition support isn't what they make it out to be. Must be fake news or alternative facts.

[AZJoe]

[TheCount]

[juleswin]

I read a story about the conditions in Venezuela and it turns out people are so hungry that they are storming locals zoos to eat the animals. In another story, anti Maduro insurgents burned down a full storage depot. It is weird how $#@! is hitting the fan so hard that in the same country, you would have people burning down food depots, destroying oil tankers and at the same time so hungry that they resort to stealing from zoos.

Something is very off here and I am not talking about their mixed economy system.