Venezuela sin Chávez: The Nicolas Maduro Thread

[Omaha 680]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/wo...tion.html?_r=0

In the last two weeks alone, more than 50 food riots, protests and mass looting have erupted around the country. Scores of businesses have been stripped bare or destroyed. At least five people have been killed.

This is precisely the Venezuela its leaders vowed to prevent.

A staggering 87 percent of Venezuelans say they do not have money to buy enough food, the most recent assessment of living standards by Simón Bolívar University found.

About 72 percent of monthly wages are being spent just to buy food, according to the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis, a research group associated with the Venezuelan Teachers Federation.

In April, it found that a family would need the equivalent of 16 minimum-wage salaries to properly feed itself.

Ask people in this city when they last ate a meal, and many will respond that it was not today.

[SeattleUte]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/wo...tion.html?_r=0

The steep price of free gasoline.

[byu71]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/wo...tion.html?_r=0

I would hope their good friends out there in the socialist world would help them get through these rough times. Cuba, they helped you how about a little payback.

Do we give any aid to Venezuela?

[wuapinmon]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/wo...tion.html?_r=0

The mayor of Cumaná has banned all motorcycles from his town because they are being used to attack food trucks like train robbers used to in the Old West. A motorcycle rider comes up along the driver of a truck and either someone jumps onto the truck with a gun, or they just shoot the driver, let the truck wreck, and then sack the truck. It's getting Gadianton bad down there.

http://www.el-nacional.com/sociedad/Prohiben-circulacion-motos-Cumana-horas_0_866913316.html

[wuapinmon]

There was a rally yesterday with 300 people all dressed in chromatic shirts, oddly guarded by military people, in support of Maduro, claiming "FRAUD, FRAUD!" over the recall petition against him. As the news about this went public, the relatives of the people in the protest began revealing that they are all prisoners who were forced to go and "protest" for Maduro, and the military were there "guarding" them from escaping:

http://www.maduradas.com/crealo-o-no-venezuela-el-pais-donde-sacan-a-los-presos-a-la-calle-para-protestar-contra-rr/

[Commando]

Eff Venezuela's government. I'm doing an asylum case from there right now, even though there is a lot of asylum fraud coming out of there. Everyone is just hitting the exits as fast as they can. Something's got to give.

[Pelado]

Who here has been to Venezuela? I may have flown over it, but have never been there. Taught an MTV district that was headed to Maracaibo. One of the guys, after returning, came up to me in the atrium of the Tanner Building. I didn't recognize or remember him.

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[BigFatMeanie]

Who here has been to Venezuela? I may have flown over it, but have never been there. Taught an MTV district that was headed to Maracaibo. One of the guys, after returning, came up to me in the atrium of the Tanner Building. I didn't recognize or remember him.

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Did that "MTV district" buy their razor blades or underwear from DI?

[Pelado]

Did that "MTV district" buy their razor blades or underwear from DI?

Maybe I should have reviewed that before posting.

The district, thankfully, never showed me their razor blades or underwear, nor did they disclose where they had obtained them.

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[wuapinmon]

This is what $10,000B would buy in January of 2015



This is what it bought last month:

[Commando]

Those knives do look pretty nice, though.

[Pelado]

Those knives do look pretty nice, though.

And at least they can toast their deli meat and cheese.

[Eddie]

Who here has been to Venezuela? I may have flown over it, but have never been there. Taught an MTV district that was headed to Maracaibo. One of the guys, after returning, came up to me in the atrium of the Tanner Building. I didn't recognize or remember him.

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My sister served in Venezuela.

[Nakoma]

Venezuela is having a difficult time because it has the wrong kind of socialism. It would work if Venezuela followed the kind of socialism where it didn't run run out of other people's money.

[Topper]

Who here has been to Venezuela? I may have flown over it, but have never been there. Taught an MTV district that was headed to Maracaibo. One of the guys, after returning, came up to me in the atrium of the Tanner Building. I didn't recognize or remember him.

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I have visited Venezuela. It is a beautiful country, diverse with lots to offer. Isla Margarita in the Caribbean, Angel Falls, Colonia Tovar, Maracaibo and many others. The people are also friendly and don't deserve the crap they have due to unrestrained socialism. It is a tragedy.