Venezuela, The Starving Socialist Dystopia (Part 1)

[Abezal]

I wonder who are more dellusional religious fanatics or communists? my vote goes for the communists.

Well having lived under it, if not for Islam id actually agree on a government level only though.

 

[Arkain2K]

Madura doesn't look to have missed many meals.

When Maduro says "there's no such thing as a food shortage in Venezuela", he meant for him and his Socialist cronies, who gets first dibs in the state's centralized, military-administered food distribution system.

Same reason why Kim Jong Un is a fat fuck while North Koreans had to eat tree leaves and roots to survive before South Korean's food aid comes.

Today's news: zoo animals are starving to death in Venezuela:

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Animals Starving in Venezuela Zoos
By Elaina Zachos | July 28, 2016

When a nation is plagued by hard times, people aren’t the only ones to suffer.

About 50 animals at Venezuela’s Caricuao Zoo have starved in the last six months due to the rising cost of food, caused by the nation’s economic downturn. Rabbits, tapirs, porcupines, pigs, and birds are among the fallen at the country’s northern zoo. Some went without food for two weeks.



The National Parks Institute (INPARQUES), which oversees the country’s zoos, blames the shortages on the nation's economic crash, caused by a plummet in the price of oil (Venezuela is a major oil producer). The country can’t afford to import food, medicine, and other necessities, and inflation has caused prices to skyrocket.



“The story of the animals at Caricuao is a metaphor for Venezuelan suffering,” Marlene Sifontes, union leader for INPARQUES employees, tells Reuters.

Caricuao Zoo staffers have been feeding carnivorous lions and tigers diets of mango and pumpkin. They are also giving an elephant tropical fruit instead of hay. Other big cats are reportedly being fed slaughtered Thoroughbred horses from a nearby racetrack.

Meanwhile, many Venezuelans go without food on a daily basis and wait in supermarket lines for hours. The nation’s starving economy has driven people to hunt dogs, cats, and pigeons for food. On Monday, visitors to a zoo in Caracas, the nation’s capital, reportedly stole a horse and butchered it for meat.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/animals-starve-in-venezuela-zoos/

 

[Rod1]

Well having lived under it, if not for Islam id actually agree on a government level only though.

Yes, Islam is probably more dellusional on absolute terms, but to be fair its because they believe in a fairy tale so its normal that they may not believe reality when it hits them with a bat in the head.

Communist are supposed to be atheist, whats their excuse for believing in a failed system.

 

[Brampton_Boy]

So I just heard from family back home that people are trying to sneak across Venezuela borner, INTO Guyana.

While most of you probably won't appreciate the magnitude of something like that, the best way I can explain it is imagine a family from the States trying to smuggle themselves into Mexico. Pure crazyness.

 

[Abezal]

Yes, Islam is probably more dellusional on absolute terms, but to be fair its because they believe in a fairy tale so its normal that they may not believe reality when it hits them with a bat in the head.

Communist are supposed to be atheist, whats their excuse for believing in a failed system.

It to is a fairy tale, that how they can believe in it so hard. Even now half of Russia is stupid enough to want the Soviet union back.

 

[Arkain2K]

Maduro's government seeks to ban Venezuelan opposition
By Andrew V. Pestano

| July 27, 2016

Jorge Rodríguez, head of a signature-verification commission established by the Venezuelan government during the opposition's presidential recall efforts, annonced he'd petitioned the National Electoral Council, or CNE, to nullify the Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition coalition's registration as a political party. ​

CARACAS, Venezuela, July 27 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's administration on Tuesday petitioned the national election commission to ban the Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition coalition, saying it committed fraud in its recall referendum efforts.

Jorge Rodríguez, a member of Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, mayor of Caracas and head of a signature-verification commission established by Maduro's government during the opposition's presidential recall efforts, filed a petition with the National Electoral Council, asking the council to cancel the political registration of the opposition coalition, known as the MUD.


Earlier this year, the opposition submitted more than 1.8 million signatures to the council, known as the CNE as part of a petition process seeking to activate a recall referendum. Just 200,000 signatures were needed.

After completing the first phase of the petition process, the opposition is waiting for the CNE to provide the necessary documents to move ahead with the final phase. The MUD will need to collect signatures from 20 percent, or about 4 million, of Venezuela's voting-eligible population within three days.

Reaching that final phase has proved difficult. The opposition is working to hold the recall referendum, in which Venezuelans will be asked whether Maduro should be removed from the presidency, by the end of the year.

The MUD have accused the CNE of attempting to hinder the opposition's efforts to recall Maduro. The opposition has held massive nationwide protests over the cause.

The petition to ban the MUD is based on accusations of fraud related to more than 300,000 petition signatures, Rodríguez said.

"It is public, it is known, it is communicated and it is fully demonstrated that the ... MUD incurred the most gigantic fraud which has been known in the political and electoral history of Venezuela," Rodriguez said Tuesday outside of the CNE's headquarters, adding that "307,747 signatures did not meet one or more technical criteria; and 53,658 of those are very serious irregularities; for example 10,995 people dead, 9,333 identification numbers that are nonexistent, 1,335 politically disqualified for being convicted of felonies and 3,003 under the age of 18."

Maduro's approval ratings are usually below 20 percent -- at times dipping into single digits -- meaning the likelihood of his removal is high if a recall referendum is held.

"The CNE must, is obliged, at the request of the Ministry of Interior or a political party, to attend immediately and expeditiously the cancellation of the registration of the MUD," Rodríguez added.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-N...opposition-over-gigantic-fraud/9981469622390/

 

[Arkain2K]

Venezuela opposition angry at recall referendum delays

Venezuelan opposition leaders have called for a march on the National Electoral Council (CNE) headquarters in the capital, Caracas, on Wednesday.

They want to pressure the CNE, which they say is stalling their attempts to hold a recall referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

The CNE had been expected to announce on Tuesday whether the first step in the referendum process had been met.

Instead, it said it would meet on 1 August for further discussions.

Venezuela is going through a dire economic crisis and recent polls suggest 64% of Venezuelans would vote to remove Mr Maduro from office.

However, there are a series of steps which have to be met before a recall referendum can be held.

Steps towards the recall referendum

• 1% of voters on the electoral roll have to sign a petition within 30 days to kick-start the process
• Signatures have to be validated
• 20% of voters (almost four million) have to sign a second petition in order to trigger the referendum
• For the referendum to be successful, an equal or greater number of voters than those who elected Mr Maduro would have to cast their vote in favour of the recall - he won the 2013 election with 7,587,579 votes

So far, the opposition has completed the first step. On 2 May, it handed the CNE a petition with almost two million signatures, many more than the 194,729 needed at this first stage.

The CNE has since been working on step two, validating the signatures by asking signatories to come forward and be fingerprinted.

On Tuesday, the CNE had been expected to announce the final result of the validation and to set a date for step three, when signatures will have to be collected on a second petition, which, if successful, would trigger the referendum proper.

But by the end of Tuesday, the CNE released a statement (in Spanish) saying it would only meet on 1 August to examine the auditors' report on the validation process.

It also warned the opposition that it would not be pressured and that it "would suspend its activities in the case of any disturbances to the public order".

Despite the warning, opposition leader Henrique Capriles repeated his call for his supporters to join a march to the CNE headquarters in Caracas on Wednesday and for those outside the capital to protest in front of their local CNE offices.

Timing is key

The opposition has long accused the CNE of siding with the government and using delaying tactics to try and thwart the referendum.

Opposition leaders are anxious to proceed with the referendum as soon as possible because its timing is key to what happens next.

Should it be held before 10 January and go against Mr Maduro, fresh elections will be triggered.

But if the vote were to be held after 10 January - in the last two years of Mr Maduro's mandate - he would be replaced by his vice-president and supporter, Aristobulo Isturiz.

The referendum could also be delayed by legal challenges launched by government supporters.

On Tuesday, government officials asked the electoral authorities to suspend the opposition coalition behind the recall referendum for alleged fraud.

They said that thousands of names on the recall petition belonged to dead people.

It is not clear at this point what effect a possible suspension of the opposition coalition would have on the drive for the recall referendum.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36903142

 

[Arkain2K]

Venezuela cuts oil shipments to Cuba forcing Castro to consider veering to U.S.
By Franz von Bergen
Published July 27, 2016

Caracas – Venezuela’s grim situation is impacting not only millions of households around the country — it is also sending panic waves across the Caribbean all the way to Cuba, a solid ally that for decades now has relied heavily on Chavismo’s generosity.

Cuba, a communist country with a weak economy, has alienated itself from the rest of the world and has largely relied on Venezuela to stay financially afloat. But Venezuela’s falling oil prices is causing Cuba to distance itself from the South American country.

So far this year Venezuelan oil shipments to the island have declined by 19.5 percent, forcing an energy rationing that is reminding people of the early 90s, when the Soviet Union dissolved and Cuba lost its top provider almost overnight.

Now with Venezuela’s wealth slowly fading away, the geopolitical chessboard may change in a way that some say will inevitably drive Havana closer to the U.S.

“Venezuela’s inability to help Cuba creates a void that will very likely be filled by the U.S.,” said foreign policy expert Giovanna De Michelle to Fox News Latino.

“Cuba’s opening to foreign investment has been slow, but now they don’t have another option if you consider Venezuela’s grim situation,” said Felix Arellano, also an internationalist.

Venezuela and Cuba started strengthening ties soon after Hugo Chavez, a socialist and open admirer of Fidel Castro, came to power in 1999. The alliance, fueled by a close personal friendship, helped the Castro brothers keep the island afloat amid the Soviet Union domino collapse.

Currently – and for more than a decade now – Venezuela supplies more than 50 percent of the island’s intake of oil at very preferential terms. In exchange, starting 2003 Cuba started providing human resources to Venezuela, mostly teachers and medical doctors to support Chavez’s various social programs, like Barrio Adentro and Misión Robinson, which focused on reducing analphabetism.

According to the most recent information available, in 2013 Venezuela provided Cuba with 99,000 barrels of crude oil a day. To date, Cuba has sent approximately 200,000 workers to Venezuela.

This oil-for-workers deal greatly benefitted both Castro’s and Chavez’s agendas: while Cuba kept running on cheap oil, Venezuela found a way to secure and preserve the social programs that are the backbone of Chavismo.

After Chavez died in 2013, his handpicked successor Nicolas Maduro kept the close relationship with Fidel and Raul Castro — according to an FNL count, Maduro has visited Cuba 15 times since becoming president three years ago.

“The new economic scenario doesn’t mean that political relations between Cuba and Venezuela will turn sour,” according to foreign analyst Edgar Otalvora. “Ideologically, they will remain close,” he said, pointing at Raul Castro’s cautious speech before the National Assembly on July 8th.

However, Castro did turn heads when he acknowledged the repercussions that Venezuela’s deepening crisis is having on Cuba.

He said Cuba’s economy grew just 1 percent in the first part of the year, half of what the government had planned for, due in part to “a certain contraction in the fuel supplies agreed upon with Venezuela, despite the firm will of President Maduro and his government to fulfill them."

"Logically that has caused additional tensions in the functioning of the Cuban economy," Castro told the National Assembly.

Analysts say the severity of the financial and political crisis in Venezuela may force Cuba to change course sooner rather than later.

“Havana needs to also start drawing investments from Europe, Brazil, Canada and China,” Arellano told FNL. “The down part for the Castro brothers is that this might require political changes in the near future.”

As for the U.S., it is very likely Washington will keep pushing to increase its influence in Cuba regardless of November’s election outcome.

“American investors are betting big on Cuba, which will probably result in the ease of the U.S. embargo [over the island] in the near future,” De Michelle said.

“This will improve the wellbeing of the Cuban people and will make Venezuela’s aid less necessary,” the expert added.

Another scenario is that Venezuela’s opposition keeps gaining ground and, if and when in power, brings to a halt the financial aid it has publicly condemned more than once -- many say Cuba is benefitting way more than Venezuela with the current arrangement.

“The loss of the Cuban doctors wouldn’t be such a big problem for Venezuela, given the fact that some of them just work as spies and they can be replaced with our own doctors,” Arellano said.

On top of this, it is no that secret many of these social workers have used their appointment to Venezuela as an opportunity to flee the island’s regime.

According to Colombian authorities, in 2015 as many as 720 Cuban medical doctors entered to their territory from Venezuela. Hundreds of them then requested U.S. visas.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/ne...-cuba-forcing-castros-to-consider-veer-to-us/

 

[TheFirstEMP]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/29/venezuela-calls-for-mandatory-labor-in-farm-sector.html

The government of Venezuela has issued a decree that "effectively amounts to forced labor" in an attempt to fix a spiraling food crisis, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

A Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a "transitory labor regime" in order to re-launch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is "necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency," and states that workers can be forcefully moved from their jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days.

 

[Arkain2K]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/29/venezuela-calls-for-mandatory-labor-in-farm-sector.html

Shit, this dystopia is reaching H.G Wells status!

I will support this forced labor resolution if the list of farmers conscription begins with the families in the Maduro's administration.

 

[jefferz]

el gran salto hacia adelante!

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

Forcing people to the fields?

 

[ShinkanPo]

Yes, Islam is probably more dellusional on absolute terms, but to be fair its because they believe in a fairy tale so its normal that they may not believe reality when it hits them with a bat in the head.

Communist are supposed to be atheist, whats their excuse for believing in a failed system.

The Atheist communists are actually using communism as their religion they are still delussional to believe all that free "stuff"

 

[ShinkanPo]

Forcing people to the fields?

This is why Dutae is killing more and more people everyday he needs that fertilizer to run his forced labor camps to feed his duterturds/Dutertards when the USA and her allies start their embargo..

 

[ShinkanPo]

I wonder who are more dellusional religious fanatics or communists? my vote goes for the communists.

Communism!!!religious people can compartmentalized they only believed strongly and can only be irrational with religious matters.

While communism is a complete package of delussion.


Communism is a poison this why it should be censored from our schools and mass media.

No individual should promote violating a constitution.

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

Good, Venezuela is an evil country that has tried to influence Brazil with their communism. We should just take their oil now.

 

[Cazador]

It went down the drain the day he was elected.

Chavez was a terrible president, the Bus Driver Maduro is worse.

100% this, never forget it.

This is just the legacy he left us (along with his heir).

Consequences from thinking oil prices were going to be over 100 $ forever, not to mention the wonderful idea of nationalize hundreds of fully operating companies, all this happening during chavez' run.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

If they are banning food imports, they at least can try and make their own food.

 

[Arkain2K]

Good, Venezuela is an evil country that has tried to influence Brazil with their communism. We should just take their oil now.

I'm reasonably sure they are open to the offer of a very generous Oil for Food programme with any of their neighbors who have excess inventory of consumables for trading.

Better act quick though, the latest news reports say that Venezuela's oil output is reaching record low this year, because their (nationalized) oil extraction and processing infrastructure is falling apart after decades of neglect without repairs nor technological renovation.

In a few years, they will be sitting on a pool of oil, without the means of pumping it up. Would be very amusing to see Venezuela begs other oil companies to come in again to do the hard work, after kicking them out a mere generation ago.

 

[Rod1]

I'm reasonably sure they are open to the offer of a very generous Oil for Food programme with any of their neighbors who have excess inventory of consumables for trading.

Better act quick though, the latest news reports say that Venezuela's oil output is reaching record low this year, because their (nationalized) oil extraction and processing infrastructure is falling apart after decades of neglect without repairs nor technological renovation.

In a few years, they will be sitting on a pool of oil, without the means of pumping it up. Would be very amusing to see Venezuela begs other oil companies to come in again to do the hard work, after kicking them out a mere generation ago.

I dont think Maduro regime will last that long.