Venezuela situation not as bad as media reports ambassador says

[DemMomma4Sanders]

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Source: Dominica News Online

“If people bring the food we will take it and we will go to the poor sectors in Dominica to give it to the people,” he remarked. “We are not in a hunger situation. My children are in Venezuela, my grandchildren, my brothers…my family live a normal and ordinary life in Venezuela.”

It is reported that at present oil-rich Venezuela has been experiencing a deep social, economic and political crisis, with unrelenting internal and external forces challenging the political system.

Reports also indicate that the country is lacking in everything from bread, to flour, to toilet paper and other basic items. Looting has become common. The healthcare system is in a state of extreme turmoil with infants dying at an alarming rate. Essential drugs are hard to find and hospitals and doctors are reporting that they have no gloves, water or soap to perform basic procedures.

But Pirela said the matter is being manipulated by the American media.

Read more: http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/general/venezuela-situation-not-as-bad-as-media-reports-ambassador-says/

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VENEZUELA IS UNDER ASSAULT ECONOMICALLY. Socialism is not allowed, by the banks and western plutocrats, is not allowed to spread....is not allowed to succeed. If the people help each other...if they can't be bled dry by bankers....in the bankers eyes they have no right to life.

Last week, opposition lawmakers in Venezuela declared a "food emergency." That's because Venezuela is facing widespread shortages of milk, meat, bread and other staples. Critics blame the government's socialist economic policies. But instead of changing course, President Nicolás Maduro is calling on Venezuelans to help feed themselves — by starting urban gardens.

Josefina Requena is among those who have heeded Maduro's call. Cucumbers, green pepper, passion fruit and other produce grow in the front yard of her home in a slum in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. She also has a chicken coop.

On a sweltering afternoon recently, I joined Requena and some other Caracas residents on a hike into the mountains that rise above the city. They were on a mission to find dirt for their gardens, which they keep on balconies, rooftops and small plots of their homes. After digging up the fresh earth, they lugged it back down the mountain.

"All my life, I've loved to plant all sorts of plants," Requena tells me in Spanish. "But over the past two years, things have become much more difficult, so I am taking gardening a little more seriously."

http://venezuelatoday.net/dealing-with-ongoing-food-shortages-in-venezuela-theres-an-app-for-that/

Home gardening is not an extreme, it isn't unusual.

[geek tragedy]

1. Nothing to see here, move it along, all is well, everyone loves Maduro

People are climbing mountains looking for ... dirt.

[Amishman]

2. blackouts and forced shortened work weeks are serious

and even the state admits to their occurrence.

VZ is close to implosion, anything less than that is lipstick on a pig.

This should be a lesson of the impact of cronyism. Venezuela has not been socialist for a long time (if ever), they have been a corrupt near authoritarian state that has been getting plundered by the ruling elite and their buddies.

[Igel]

3. If you'd asked the typical high-placed apparatchik in 1990 USSR

they'd have said the same thing.

"All's fine."

First, their job was on the line. Had they said, "It sucks and the stores run out of food before the lines run out of people," they'd have joined those lines. Party disloyalty was frowned upon.

Second, they had their own supply sources for what they needed; some neighborhoods were more equal than others.

In capitalist societies, politicians are well off because they have alternative sources of income or are well off to begin with. Money is a surrogate for power in many ways.

In centralized societies, politicians are well off because they control the resources more directly, whatever their income may actually be on paper. An apparatchik with modest income would have a good standard of living because the apt. would be large but subsidized, and stores he'd shop in would be well stocked but subsidized. Now, a commoner had subsidies, too, but their allocated apt. space would be smaller their the stores they had access to would be much more poorly stocked. You could go to a good hospital that had supplies of medicines and drugs with free healthcare or a crappy hospital with chronic supply shortages and free healthcare--both were free, and therefor affordable. $500/month paid out to the apparatchik was not the same as $500 paid to a commoner.

[snooper2]

4. Cool! Everything is just dandy!

[reddread]

5. if only those most concerned showed the same regard for every other country

or for that matter, any.

[Judi Lynn]

8. That'll be the day, won't it? They couldn't care less about the Colombian men who get slaughtered

by the military, then dressed as "guerrillas," and counted as dead rebels to contribute to their total of "enemy" they've killed in order to keep that war going, and the US tax dollars rolling in, to the tune of over $10 B. since 2000, not to mention things that don't get mentioned in the budget.

Not only do the military soldiers do this, counting the young men from the country as "false positives", the military-connected death squads do it, as well, handling the real dirty work, even participating with the military in the same massacres on occasion. Downright evil.

Have been posting articles on this for years here, and not one of these clowns has ever expressed a moment of regret or even acknowledgment, while leftists, human rights workers, union workers, campesinos, African-Colombian people, and indigenous Colombian people, clergy, and educators, poor street vendors, even people in a Peace Community have been murdered relentlessly.

They completely ignore those articles and race to post their "out of toilet paper" trash, really whooping it up. It's enough to make a maggot gag.

They don't care about "Venezuela." They care about keeping the Venezuelan people from having the leftist government they want. As was said back during Hugo Chavez' lifetime in Venezuela, "if we lose Chavez, we'll find another one." Their cause is far bigger than just one man, because there is a need to AVOID the sleazeball, greedy, murderous @$$holes who have been running their country, and keeping all the profits from the country's resources within the small group of criminal elites, the racist, very fair complected oligarchs of European descent.

[fasttense]

6. It's really difficult to pull apart the anti-Socialist propaganda that the uber rich pay for

and the truth about Venezuela.

So much of our media is brain washed and do such shoddy reporting that it can't be believed. And much of the media in Venezuela is owned by the uber rich (much like in the US) and plaster the anti-Socialist propaganda far and wide.

I imagine that if Bernie wins the presidency, the same things will be written about the US that are being written about Venezuela.

The uber rich are very afraid of Socialism. And they will spread lie after lie about it.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Some of the media owners were also involved in the coup planning against Hugo Chavez,

in 2002, and one of those media owners, Gustavo Cisneros, is also a personal friend, the "fishing buddy" of George H. W. Bush.

When the coup was thwarted by the Venezuelan people, Cisneros went immediately to a resort in the Dominican Republic owned by Cuban "exile" sugar baron brothers, the Fanjuls, meeting to huddle with George H. W. Bush. Way too creepy.

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Gustavo Cisneros and George H W Bush





Gustavo Cisneros + George H W Bush + Cuban "exile" Alfi Fanjul



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While looking for a photo, I ran across this article I posted last year. Had forgotten about it completely:

Venezuelan Coup Plotter Gustavo Cisneros Donated $1M to Clinton Foundation
By Rachael Boothroyd

Caracas, March 31st 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com)- A recent report has emerged revealing that Venezuelan billionaire and media tycoon, Gustavo Cisneros, donated up to US$ 1 million dollars to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation between 2009-2013, while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State for the Obama administration.

A recent review of the foundation’s disclosures, carried out by the Wall Street Journal, brings to light a number of donators that were previously unknown to the public. The figures include Argentinian and Ukrainian businesspeople, as well as Prince Turki al-Faisal of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family, who collectively donated up to US$68 million to the organisation over the course of four years. The majority of large donations came from residents in the Ukraine (US$10 million), England (US$8.4 million) and Saudi Arabia (US$7.3 million), according to the report.

Described as Latin America’s “Berlusconi,” Gustavo Cisneros appears in the report as having donated up to US$ 1 million to the couple’s foundation between 2009 and 2013. The exact amount and number of donations that he made are still unclear, however, as the foundation’s disclosure reports only cite donations in ranges as opposed to specific amounts.

The revelation has provoked a fierce backlash from the Republican party, as well as some figures within the Democrat camp. They have cited the donations as an attempt to circumvent an agreement between President Obama and the Clintons, in which the couple vowed to reject donations from foreign governments during Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State.

More:
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11310

[YOHABLO]

7. Oh FOX ''news'' is loving this. They point fingers at Sanders ''Democratic Socialism''

See! See! What happens to socialist countries. Send in the economic hit men.