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7962

(11,841 posts) Fri Jun 17, 2016, 11:13 PM Jun 2016

Shops shut after deadly looting in Venezuela crisis

Source: Yahoo News

Caracas (AFP) - Residents barricaded their shops Friday in a Venezuelan city hit by violence after the country's food crisis erupted into deadly looting.

The unrest came days ahead of a new key stage in the opposition's bid to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office: the authentication of signatures calling for a recall referendum.

Police arrested hundreds of people in the latest unrest, which heightened hardship and political uncertainty in the impoverished oil-producing nation.

Some shop owners welded their shutters closed in the old colonial city of Cumana, where dozens of stores were looted on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/deaths-arrests-looting-erupts-venezuela-110904468.html?ref=gs

The "revolution" continues its inevitable downward spiral

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Shops shut after deadly looting in Venezuela crisis (Original Post) 7962 Jun 2016 OP

Socialism. nm mr_liberal Jun 2016 #1

Not socialism. Not progressive. Not "liberal". It's left-wing authoritarianism. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2016 #2

mr_liberal

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1. Socialism. nm

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Fri Jun 17, 2016, 11:26 PM

Jun 2016

Bernardo de La Paz

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2. Not socialism. Not progressive. Not "liberal". It's left-wing authoritarianism. . . nt

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Sat Jun 18, 2016, 02:22 AM

Jun 2016

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