Venezuela in trouble
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Hundreds of Venezuelan women break border blockades to find food in Colombia as shortages worsen. (Twitter)
On Tuesday May 5, at least five hundred Venezuelan women broke the human barrier created by the Venezuelan National Guard between Venezuela and Colombia. They sought to cross the border and reach the Colombian city of Cúcuta, seeking food in the midst of massive scarcity.
“Thank you Colombia, we did it. Despite the opposition of the (Venezuelan) National Guard, we are still here. Our children, our families are hungry, we shall keep fighting”, said a woman, who celebrated after reaching Colombian soil.
“In Venezuela you can’t get anything, there’s nothing to eat. We’re starving, we’re desperate”, said another woman as she crossed the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge between the two countries, according to Colombia’s Caracol news.
The women, which came from the frontier town of Ureña in Venezuela, came to Cúcuta, the capital city of Colombia’s Norte de Santander department. They did it despite the border closing implemented by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in August, 2015.
In a video published on social media, women, who are dressed in white, push National Guard soldiers near the frontier. They managed to open just enough space to get through.
https://panampost.com/luis-mosquera...ak-border-blockades-to-find-food-in-colombia/
“Thank you Colombia, we did it. Despite the opposition of the (Venezuelan) National Guard, we are still here. Our children, our families are hungry, we shall keep fighting”, said a woman, who celebrated after reaching Colombian soil.
“In Venezuela you can’t get anything, there’s nothing to eat. We’re starving, we’re desperate”, said another woman as she crossed the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge between the two countries, according to Colombia’s Caracol news.
The women, which came from the frontier town of Ureña in Venezuela, came to Cúcuta, the capital city of Colombia’s Norte de Santander department. They did it despite the border closing implemented by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in August, 2015.
In a video published on social media, women, who are dressed in white, push National Guard soldiers near the frontier. They managed to open just enough space to get through.
https://panampost.com/luis-mosquera...ak-border-blockades-to-find-food-in-colombia/
Venezuela army deployed to control food production and distribution - BBC News
Yes... things are getting worse each day.
Yes... things are getting worse each day.
Rofl
Jamaica is paying its oil debts to Venezuela with food
http://news.vice.com/article/jamaica-is-paying-its-oil-debts-to-venezuela-with-food
Jamaica is paying its oil debts to Venezuela with food
http://news.vice.com/article/jamaica-is-paying-its-oil-debts-to-venezuela-with-food
Should we ship then some inbred mustangs from southern Alberta? (rather than them going to Quebec)
Geez! What a Socialist DISASTER!
Crowds surge into the streets to demand recall of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro - LA Times
Crowds surge into the streets to demand recall of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro - LA Times
Not Good News Not At All
Venezuelan President Is Chased by Angry Protesters
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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro was chased at a routine political event by a crowd of angry protesters banging on pots and yelling that they were hungry, just days after thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to call for his ouster, local news media reported on Saturday.
Scenes from the confrontation late Friday, which also appeared in videos uploaded to social media, captured the attention of Venezuelans, many of whom blame the unpopular president for the country’s food shortages.
In one video, Mr. Maduro tries to calm the pot-bangers by walking among them, only to be surrounded as the furious crowd yells obscenities.
“What is this?” an astounded voice behind the camera asks in one of the video clips.
Mr. Maduro had traveled from the capital, Caracas, to Margarita Island off Venezuela’s northern coast to inaugurate a number of new public housing units and give a televised address.
During the speech, he denounced his opponents’ calls for his removal from office, calling them “vampires” and saying they were preparing for violence.
Foro Penal, a Venezuelan human rights group, said that 20 people had been arrested after the protest in the town of Villa Rosa on Margarita Island. Among those detained was Braulio Jatar, the director of a local news Web site called Reporte Confidencial, said the site, which had reported on protest against the president.
Venezuelans protesting against the government on Thursday in Caracas.
Mr. Maduro’s office made no statement about the incident or the arrests.
Venezuelan politicians wasted little time on Saturday in using the confrontation to advance their agendas.
“The people of Villa Rosa in Margarita have no fear,” wrote Henrique Capriles, an opposition governor who lost to Mr. Maduro in the presidential election in 2013. “Through banging pots, Maduro was run out of town.”
Pedro Carvajalino, a pro-government television anchorman, said the protesters had been sent by Mr. Capriles and other members of the opposition.
“It was a lack of respect to presidential dignity,” Mr. Carvajalino said.
On Thursday, Mr. Maduro’s political opponents organized a mass protest in the capital, a gathering they called “the taking of Caracas.”
It was the largest protest this year as many thousands descended on the capital from around the country, chanting, singing and venting frustration with the country’s chronic shortages, most critically of food.
The organizers are trying to use rising anger against the president to propel an effort to recall him from office by means of a popular referendum.
If the referendum happens this year and Mr. Maduro loses, Venezuelans will have the opportunity to elect a new president. But the government, which is responsible for organizing such a vote, wishes to hold it next year. If Mr. Maduro loses in 2017, the leftist vice president will serve what is left of his six-year term.
Polls show that Mr. Maduro would be likely to lose a referendum.
The confrontation in Villa Rosa suggests that the tide may have turned in an area that once supported the president
Venezuelan President Is Chased by Angry Protesters
[youtube]7y9kQ_nUf1k[/youtube]
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro was chased at a routine political event by a crowd of angry protesters banging on pots and yelling that they were hungry, just days after thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to call for his ouster, local news media reported on Saturday.
Scenes from the confrontation late Friday, which also appeared in videos uploaded to social media, captured the attention of Venezuelans, many of whom blame the unpopular president for the country’s food shortages.
In one video, Mr. Maduro tries to calm the pot-bangers by walking among them, only to be surrounded as the furious crowd yells obscenities.
“What is this?” an astounded voice behind the camera asks in one of the video clips.
Mr. Maduro had traveled from the capital, Caracas, to Margarita Island off Venezuela’s northern coast to inaugurate a number of new public housing units and give a televised address.
During the speech, he denounced his opponents’ calls for his removal from office, calling them “vampires” and saying they were preparing for violence.
Foro Penal, a Venezuelan human rights group, said that 20 people had been arrested after the protest in the town of Villa Rosa on Margarita Island. Among those detained was Braulio Jatar, the director of a local news Web site called Reporte Confidencial, said the site, which had reported on protest against the president.
Venezuelans protesting against the government on Thursday in Caracas.
Mr. Maduro’s office made no statement about the incident or the arrests.
Venezuelan politicians wasted little time on Saturday in using the confrontation to advance their agendas.
“The people of Villa Rosa in Margarita have no fear,” wrote Henrique Capriles, an opposition governor who lost to Mr. Maduro in the presidential election in 2013. “Through banging pots, Maduro was run out of town.”
Pedro Carvajalino, a pro-government television anchorman, said the protesters had been sent by Mr. Capriles and other members of the opposition.
“It was a lack of respect to presidential dignity,” Mr. Carvajalino said.
On Thursday, Mr. Maduro’s political opponents organized a mass protest in the capital, a gathering they called “the taking of Caracas.”
It was the largest protest this year as many thousands descended on the capital from around the country, chanting, singing and venting frustration with the country’s chronic shortages, most critically of food.
The organizers are trying to use rising anger against the president to propel an effort to recall him from office by means of a popular referendum.
If the referendum happens this year and Mr. Maduro loses, Venezuelans will have the opportunity to elect a new president. But the government, which is responsible for organizing such a vote, wishes to hold it next year. If Mr. Maduro loses in 2017, the leftist vice president will serve what is left of his six-year term.
Polls show that Mr. Maduro would be likely to lose a referendum.
The confrontation in Villa Rosa suggests that the tide may have turned in an area that once supported the president
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of totalitarian sh!tholes-the shelves were never full and will never be full it's always a ripoff and more money is made when 'shortages' appear.
I know this from people in the fishing charter business (Marlin fishing is amazing off the coast of Venezuela) periodic gasoline 'shortages' would happen for days at a time and 'no one knew what was happening' when the dust had settled 'new suppliers' would appear with higher prices and life would go one much as always.
What about the yankee sanctions Bill? You eat cuz there's no aircraft carrier oof your shores. Yer right it is government.
There are no sanctions on Venezuela they still sell oil by the tonne to the yanquis.