Traders Are 'Scared As Hell' Of What's Happening In Venezuela

[MADem]

49. Oh, please. We're supposed to "support" this kind of shit? Get real.

"You people?" Some of us have heard THAT before....

Maduro and Chavez FUCKED the people of VZ by keeping them down and giving away THEIR birthright to Cuba. Are you sure YOU'RE on the right site? You think it's "OK" to ration basic goods while the Boligarchs live high off the hog? Would you stand in a line like this in an ostensibly wealthy nation?





Good grief, what nerve, to call people rightwingers because they think that people who live in a country ought to enjoy the fruits of it, not let their leaders fart through silk while they spend the money on themselves and their "good friends" who fawn over them from a repressive island in the Caribbean...

I guess you think the government censorship of the VZ media and internet is "OK" too--and the government murder of students during the demonstrations was just hunky dory as well?

And you really think this kind of nonsense is helpful? Here, read-LEARN:

The crackdown is tricky for Maduro. In Petare and elsewhere, it risks alienating some of the poor Venezuelans who had long been loyal to Maduro’s predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez, but are increasingly unhappy with his understudy.

“Maduro ya se maduró ,” quipped vendor Maribel Nieble, with a play on the president’s last name that meant “Maduro has turned rotten.”

She had a sorry-looking pile of bananas on her stand, but it was really just a facade. Hidden underneath in a dirty fruit crate were several illicit bottles of Downy-brand laundry detergent and cooking oil. When a bus pulled up and Nieble didn’t see any troops, she quickly set out her wares, concealing them again once the crowds thinned.
“I feel like a drug dealer,” she said.

In stores, the detergent’s price was capped at the equivalent of about 60 cents, if using the government’s highest official exchange rate of 50 bolivars per dollar. Nieble was selling her Downy for twice that.

“I have six kids and two grandchildren,” she said. “I’m just trying to survive.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/with-goods-scarce-in-caracass-stores-street-sales-boom-and-officials-glower/2014/11/13/95b79f52-87da-442b-b7b3-cb0989903dd7_story.html

Talk about missing the point...