Blog: My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-day hunt for food in a starving land

crimsonaudio

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Sad to see it come to this, but it's been building for a long time.

That said, I respect these people as they're standing up for themselves and refusing to take this lying down. Sometimes, you have to fight...
 

NationalTitles18

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http://whnt.com/2017/04/20/gm-halts-operations-in-venezuela-after-factory-is-seized/

General Motors has stopped doing business in Venezuela after authorities took control of a factory in what GM called an illegal judicial seizure of its assets.
Companies have been cutting operations in Venezuela as a result of runaway inflation and strict currency controls. Last May, tire maker Bridgestone sold its business there after six decades of operating in the country.
Bridgestone joined other foreign multinationals including Halliburton, Ford Motor and Procter & Gamble who have either slowed or abandoned their investments in Venezuela.
 

tattooguy21

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Some articles/reports that I had tagged in recent years, some from a wiki link. The bottom article is a very good opinion piece from the WAPO.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/06/business/venezuela-chavez-oil-economy/

http://cepr.net/blogs/the-americas-blog/venezuela-leads-region-in-poverty-reduction-in-2012-eclac-says

http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/venezuela/overview

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-25/a-new-twist-on-capital-flight-venezuelas-absurd-airfares

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/25/373128433/for-venezuela-drop-in-global-oil-prices-could-be-catastrophic

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/01/30/actualidad/1422646346_475356.html



And finally an opinion piece on my Bolivia (a socialist country) is doing well vs Venezuela (a socialist country). I'll spoil it for you, it's based on the leadership being more frugal with their natural resources boon than was venequela. But the thing I got from both articles was, above all else, the only reason that socialism became a viable option was AFTER the discovery and increase in value of huge swaths of natural resources that both countries had. Without which, socialism wasn't possible. AKA we have no money to distribute equally

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/01/05/as-socialist-venezuela-collapses-socialist-bolivia-thrives-heres-why/?utm_term=.294da2597af1
 

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Amid Venezuela unrest, experts worry that criminals will acquire military’s weapons

The prospect of rogue groups obtaining the Igla-S is particularly frightening given its small size and effectiveness. Weighing only 24 pounds, the tube-like launcher could be relatively easy to smuggle across borders, and its 2.5 kilogram warhead can shoot down an airplane or helicopter from 3.7 miles away.
What could go wrong???

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It doesn't reassure me that Trump wanted to invade Venezuela in 2017, and the people who stopped him then are no longer present.
 

UAH

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It doesn't reassure me that Trump wanted to invade Venezuela in 2017, and the people who stopped him then are no longer present.
It seems clear that at their hearts American conservatives are always pursuing state building. In Trump's case it seems peculiar that among all of the unrest in Central America driving immigration to the US he is interested in the troubled state in South America that possesses oil reserves. As is always the case rather than meet with the states of the Southern Common Market to develop solutions Trump proceeds as the bully on the block.
 

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Venezuela is getting crazy
Been crazy there for a while.
Made a Facebook friend years ago who lives there and we stay in touch. Her family is very wealthy and have been able to survive, but she’s kept me posted on the situation.
It’s been so bad for so long I don’t know how the country is still a country. Oil fields are a wreck due to NO maintenance over the years.
A tragedy of huge proportions.


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AUDub

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Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
Been crazy there for a while.
Made a Facebook friend years ago who lives there and we stay in touch. Her family is very wealthy and have been able to survive, but she’s kept me posted on the situation.
It’s been so bad for so long I don’t know how the country is still a country. Oil fields are a wreck due to NO maintenance over the years.
A tragedy of huge proportions.


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I think we’re finally hitting the tipping point. Hope Maduro is removed soon.
 

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Been crazy there for a while.
Made a Facebook friend years ago who lives there and we stay in touch. Her family is very wealthy and have been able to survive, but she’s kept me posted on the situation.
It’s been so bad for so long I don’t know how the country is still a country. Oil fields are a wreck due to NO maintenance over the years.
A tragedy of huge proportions.


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A good friend of mine in Alabama grew up in a wealthy Venezuelan family. Back in the mid-90s, he was telling me that Venezuela was basically a fiefdom. The rich owned all the land and wealth, and the country was full of abject poverty. Typical of many Latin American countries.

I remember back then, both of us discussing how easily a Castro-type figure could rise and motivate the masses to overthrow the oligarchy, and create another Cuba. And then, Hugo Chavez appeared.

When I was in BsAs a year ago, the city was full of Venezuelan expats and economic refugees. Chavez/Maduro have made a mess of that country.
 

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A good friend of mine in Alabama grew up in a wealthy Venezuelan family. Back in the mid-90s, he was telling me that Venezuela was basically a fiefdom. The rich owned all the land and wealth, and the country was full of abject poverty. Typical of many Latin American countries.

I remember back then, both of us discussing how easily a Castro-type figure could rise and motivate the masses to overthrow the oligarchy, and create another Cuba. And then, Hugo Chavez appeared.

When I was in BsAs a year ago, the city was full of Venezuelan expats and economic refugees. Chavez/Maduro have made a mess of that country.
Sounds vaguely familiar to the US. ;)
 

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How in the world can their inflation rate be 10 million percent :eek:
All of the debt and import purchases of these countries is denominated or priced in US Dollars. When there is political/economic instability the value of their currency relative to the Dollar changes by several magnitudes. Shortages of necessities follow and more currency chases fewer and fewer goods. A wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread as it was in Germany following World War l
 

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