Meanwhile, back in Caracastan: Food riots erupt in Castro colony

Aaaah, the benefits of being a colony.

Aaaah, the marvels of Castro-controlled socialism.

Food shortages are now extreme in the Cuban colony of Caracastan, a.k.a. Venenozuela,

The situation has become so desperate that Venezuelans are now attacking and looting stores, trucks, and food distribution centers, and even slaughtering livestock out in the fields.

Viva la Revolucion!  Vamos requetebien!

As an essay published today astutely observes,  Venezuela reveals the ugly truths about socialism

If you still have doubts about those ugly truths, read the essay linked above and the article below.

From Granma Euro-Lite (Reuters):

Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection center, and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country.

An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, said four people had died and 10 were injured in the chaos over the last two days, but he did not specify the circumstances.

Four years of recession and the world’s highest inflation have plunged millions of Venezuelans into poverty, and President Nicolas Maduro’s authoritarian socialist regime faces mounting unrest.

Venezuela’s Information Ministry did not respond to a request for information about the latest disturbances to rock the nation of 30 million people.


Looters plundered a truck carrying corn, a food collection center, and a state-run supermarket, according to Paparoni, and a vet who witnessed the mayhem.A video on social media also showed around a dozen men running into a lush pasture, chasing a cow, and then apparently beating it to death.

“They’re hunting. The people are hungry!” says the narrator of the video, who filmed the incident from his car. Lawmaker Paparoni said some 300 animals were believed to have been killed.

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