Venezuelan Oil Company Workers Quitting, Taking Parts of the Company With Them

[Swordsmyth]

Junior Martinez, 28, has worked in Venezuela’s oil fields for eight years. His salary, denominated in bolivars, today won’t buy anything thanks to runaway inflation, and so he has quit, hoping his credentials as a chemical engineer will get him a job in Brazil: “I got 1,400,000 bolivars a week and it isn’t even enough to buy a carton of eggs or a tube of toothpaste,” he said. His wife and daughter left for Brazil three months earlier.
The same with Carlos Navas, an oil field worker who was once able to support his family well with his income: He owned a car and a house with air conditioning. He is now headed for Ecuador, or Peru: “Before, you worked and you were rich," he stated. "Your salary bought anything you needed. Now you can’t buy anything, not even food."
At least they aren’t taking part of the country’s oil company, PdVSA (company ad shown, with caption that says: "Socialist grafts to recover, sustain and grow"). The New York Times reported last week that Martinez and Navas might be the exceptions: “Desperate oil workers and criminals are … stripping the oil company of vital equipment, vehicles, pumps and copper wiring, carrying off whatever they can to make money.” As offices at President Maduro’s state-owned oil company are emptying out, and crews in the field are walking off their jobs without giving notice, company pickup trucks are being stolen, copper wiring is being stripped from vital parts of the company’s electronic and control mechanism, and even motors driving pump jacks in the field are being removed — all in order to sell them on the black market in exchange for food.

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/world...pany-with-them

[angelatc]

It's 'Merica's fault.

[Swordsmyth]

It's 'Merica's fault.

Especially Republicans and the John Birch Society.

[angelatc]

Especially Republicans and the John Birch Society.

Those are covert CIA operations, you know. I cannot prove it but I know I am right.

[Brian4Liberty]

Socialist paradise. It's Utopia.

But according to the Democratic Socialists in the US, they just aren't socialist enough, that's the problem. If they could just be more socialist, then it would be paradise.