Something is rotten in Venezuela

Venezuela Is Starving

Three in four Venezuelans said they had lost weight last year, an average of 19 pounds, according to the National Poll of Living Conditions, an annual study by social scientists.

Hugo Chávez statue torn down as death toll rises in Venezuela protests

“Students destroyed this statue of Chávez. They accuse him, correctly, of destroying their future,” the opposition lawmaker Carlos Valero said about the incident, which was also reported in local media. Reuters was unable to independently confirm it.

Mainstream Media Largely Ignores Venezuela’s Socialist Collapse

Out of approximately 50,000 total evening news stories on ABC, CBS and NBC combined in the last four years, just 25 have covered the ongoing crisis in socialist Venezuela, according to a Media Research Center study published Tuesday.

They've been talking about it a lot on WLRN and the various public news shows they license. I still think they are underplaying it, but they talk about it often.

That article sure didn't age well. Neither did this Tweet by Jeremy Corbyn.....

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"Woke" Millennials Hilariously Say They'd Prefer Venezuela's Food Lines Over America's "Income Inequality"

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Punking those hipsters was funny I guess, but FYI there is extreme income inequality in Venezuela that gets worse every day as inflation continues to skyrocket. Simply because some people have access to American dollars, and some people don't.

One of my best developers escaped from Venezuela to Spain recently, but before she did she was earning over seven thousand times more than most of the people around her in Maracaibo.

The latest increase brings Venezuela's minimum wage to 97,531 bolivars a month. That's equivalent to $12.53.

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I was paying her $90k USD then, so she was earning 7,183 times as much as the Venezuelan minimum wage.

The minimum wage in Florida is currently $8.10. To make 7,183 times more than that, you would have to make about $116 million USD per year. Not that many people make that much money in the US. But lots of people get paid in dollars in Venezuela in one way or another.

That's why there is a significant upper class who don't have to wait in food lines. And who don't have to worry about the availability of corn meal or toilet paper or whatever. They shop in stores with fresh seafood and olive bars and fine wine.

TLDR: The Bolivarian socialists have inadvertently created a privileged upper class through currency manipulation, in the name of fairness and equality for all.

'Let Them Eat Rabbit' Is Venezuelan President's Response To Food Shortages

You can't simply outlaw inflation. We're going to see exactly why soon, as Venezuela slips into an economic depression. And we're also seeing a lesson on the Occupy-Wall-Street fallacy of scapegoating the "Bourgeoisie" for a country's economic problems.

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Maduro's rabbit plan will rectify all that.