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Remember when libs celebrated Venezuelas government? lmao they eat garbage now

Venezuelans Are Separating Food from Waste as More People Fo...
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  03/04/17
Libs love freeganism
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LIB PARADISE
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  03/04/17
White House praises ‘Venezuelan people’ after Chavez victory...
Dull Parlour
  03/04/17
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracl...
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  03/04/17
fucking libs
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what a great place to live!
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last i heard, they were eating cats. now garbage? what's nex...
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  03/04/17
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its a correction in the article
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autism is a force that can be weaponized for good use *flaps...
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Sean Penn:This is not a dictator supported by the wealthy cl...
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Mischievous chocolate sex offender death wish
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that faggot f*cking pisses me off so much, too. he really do...
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  07/30/17
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/fe...
Grizzly stead nowag
  03/04/17
For 17 years, the PSUV has enjoyed enormous popularity in Ve...
Grizzly stead nowag
  03/04/17
The current crisis is essentially what Silverman calls a pro...
Grizzly stead nowag
  03/04/17
“Once President Chávez was able to control the oil in...
Grizzly stead nowag
  03/04/17
fuck, if only the US could have an economy like cuba and Ven...
Black concupiscible gaping theatre
  03/04/17
OP killing it ITT
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Venezuela: Latin America's inequality success story https...
Grizzly stead nowag
  03/04/17
Cliffs? never followed this.
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Shitlibs took an ocean of oil and converted it into programs...
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Grizzly stead nowag
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I don't remember when libs celebrated Venezuelas government,...
fuchsia supple parlor
  03/29/17
(guy who cant read good
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  03/29/17
(Guy who ignored the 20 links ITT)
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libs what happened to your utopia????? United Airlines Su...
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yeah libs what happened to your utopia?????
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  06/19/17
Venezuela Heads for Civil War The regime has rifles and arm...
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  07/30/17
Obama lifted travel sanctions against Cuba. Never forget.
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  07/30/17
this post isn't getting enough attention
Arousing ocher pit partner
  08/01/17
yep this is what libs want for you
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  07/30/17
Cr
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  07/31/17
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  07/31/17
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provocative aqua useless brakes
  08/01/17
ahem, libs?
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  08/01/17
yeah libs, ahem?
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Cr libs plz respond
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Venezuela Is Starving Its People The Maduro regime is using...
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arepas are no empanadas, but id hardly call them garbage
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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:45 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

Venezuelans Are Separating Food from Waste as More People Forced to Eat from Garbage

this is what libs want for you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750817)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:46 AM
Author: aromatic infuriating institution

Libs love freeganism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750823)



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Date: July 30th, 2017 8:10 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac lilac cuckold gunner



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Date: August 1st, 2017 5:20 AM
Author: Mischievous chocolate sex offender death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33894607)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:46 AM
Author: racy tattoo

LIB PARADISE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750825)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:47 AM
Author: Dull Parlour

White House praises ‘Venezuelan people’ after Chavez victory

http://thehill.com/policy/international/260819-white-house-praises-venezuelan-people-on-election-notes-differences-with-chavez

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750826)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:47 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/

The Venezuelan leader was often marginalized as a radical. But his brand of socialism achieved real economic gains

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750838)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:48 AM
Author: Dull Parlour

fucking libs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750845)



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Exciting Crackhouse Persian



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Date: March 4th, 2017 4:43 PM
Author: ruby sanctuary goal in life

jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32753259)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:47 AM
Author: violent love of her life rehab

what a great place to live!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750830)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:47 AM
Author: Mischievous chocolate sex offender death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750836)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:49 AM
Author: slippery cordovan queen of the night tanning salon

last i heard, they were eating cats. now garbage? what's next? sounds scary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750851)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:49 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/venezuela-not-greece-latin-america-oil-poverty

Sorry, Venezuela haters: this economy is not the Greece of Latin America

The subheading on this article was amended on 15 November 2013. The original one, not supplied by the author, ended with the words "in this oil-rich country the only thing imploding is poverty". This has now been removed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750853)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:53 AM
Author: Mischievous chocolate sex offender death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750889)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:54 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

its a correction in the article

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750896)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:56 AM
Author: Mischievous chocolate sex offender death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750904)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:57 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

autism is a force that can be weaponized for good use *flaps arms

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750909)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 5:18 PM
Author: abusive razzle lay



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32753448)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:50 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

Sean Penn:This is not a dictator supported by the wealthy classes, but rather, a president elected by the impoverished and at the service of the Venezuelan constitution, a document not unlike our own. He is a flamboyant, passionate leader.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-penn/venezuela-sanctions_b_871248.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750856)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:57 AM
Author: Mischievous chocolate sex offender death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750912)



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Date: July 30th, 2017 8:09 PM
Author: fuchsia supple parlor

that faggot f*cking pisses me off so much, too. he really does

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33886919)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:50 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/feb/02/venezuela-hugo-chavez-anniversary-election

Three cheers for Chávez

Benjamin Dangl

Hugo Chávez's 10 years in office have led to better healthcare and education for the majority of Venezuelans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750859)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:51 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

For 17 years, the PSUV has enjoyed enormous popularity in Venezuela. Its economic and social programs drastically reduced poverty, created universal healthcare, and promoted widespread literacy and education. Compared to its Latin American neighbors, Venezuela has consistently led the region in reducing poverty.

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/07/13_years_after_foiled_u_s_backed_coup_right_wing_opposition_wins_venezuela_election/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750868)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:52 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

The current crisis is essentially what Silverman calls a problem of the country’s own economic success. Though Venezuela currently grapples with a poverty rate between 75 and 80 percent amid its economic recession, it did once see a remarkable decline in poverty under Chavez—from 50 percent in 1998 to 30 percent in 2013, according to the World Bank. “The Venezuelan economy reduced poverty at one of the most rapid rates in the world, and certainly one of the most rapid rates in Latin America over the past 20 years,” he says. “That meant people had the money to buy refrigerators, air conditioners, and … hairdryers.”

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/venezuelas-economic-success-fueled-electricity-crisis/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750877)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:52 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

“Once President Chávez was able to control the oil industry, his government was able to reduce poverty by half and extreme poverty by 70 percent. Public pensions rose from 500,000 to over two million. Chávez helped turn Venezuela from being one of the most unequal countries in Latin America to being the most equal in terms of income after Cuba. Under the naked thrall of neoliberal capitalism, the United States has become one of the most unequal countries in the world.”

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24264-austerity-immiseration-capitalism-what-can-we-learn-from-venezuelan-socialism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750879)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 5:20 PM
Author: Black concupiscible gaping theatre

fuck, if only the US could have an economy like cuba and Venezuela.

this is like the poaster who said if he were a 5-star basketball recruit he'd look at Northwestern and Rice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32753462)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:53 AM
Author: Charismatic Antidepressant Drug

OP killing it ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750888)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 11:58 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

Venezuela: Latin America's inequality success story

https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/venezuela-latin-americas-inequality-success-story/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32750918)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 5:00 PM
Author: Nudist cracking mad cow disease sweet tailpipe

Cliffs? never followed this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32753361)



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Date: July 30th, 2017 8:08 PM
Author: glassy site community account

Shitlibs took an ocean of oil and converted it into programs

now oil not worth shit so no money for programs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33886909)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 5:03 PM
Author: Flesh Cuckoldry Regret

people do that in the philippines too; it's called "pagpag."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32753374)



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Date: March 4th, 2017 5:18 PM
Author: Mewling church building patrolman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32753455)



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Date: March 29th, 2017 7:25 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32948556)



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Date: March 29th, 2017 7:27 PM
Author: fuchsia supple parlor

I don't remember when libs celebrated Venezuelas government, but I'll take your word for it. I'm sure you follow these things closely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32948566)



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Date: March 29th, 2017 7:30 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

(guy who cant read good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#32948585)



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Date: July 31st, 2017 12:16 PM
Author: Pearl legend

(Guy who ignored the 20 links ITT)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33890410)



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Date: April 19th, 2017 3:13 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33111516)



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Date: April 20th, 2017 2:59 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33119934)



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Date: May 2nd, 2017 11:21 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33211578)



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Date: May 2nd, 2017 11:25 AM
Author: gay keepsake machete



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Date: June 3rd, 2017 7:53 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

libs what happened to your utopia?????

United Airlines Suspends Flights to Venezuela Starting July

by Andrea Wong and Jonathan Gilbert

Service consisted of daily flights between Caracas and Houston

The route isn’t meeting ‘financial expectations,’ carrier says

United Airlines Inc. will suspend flights to Venezuela next month, a move that further cuts off access to the Latin American nation engulfed in violent political protests and economic chaos.

The daily service between Houston and Caracas will be canceled because of low demand, United spokesman Charles Hobart said in an email. “Because our Houston-Caracas service is not meeting our financial expectations we have decided to suspend it, effective July 1,” he said.

The Venezuelan government has faced almost two months of anti-government protests. It has drastically cut imports of food and medicine in order to conserve the cash needed to pay bondholders, as oil production declines and international reserves hover near a 15-year low.

United, whose flights to Caracas have been popular with oil executives in Texas and Venezuelans living in the U.S., is the latest in a string of airlines to pull out or cut exposure to socialist Venezuela. Only last month, TAP-Transportes Aereos Portugueses stopped selling plane tickets in Venezuela because it wasn’t getting the money from those sales.

Last year, carriers asked the U.S. Department of Transportation for antitrust immunity so they could discuss ways to retrieve $3.8 billion held hostage by Venezuela’s economic collapse, with the government virtually halting repatriation of past ticket sales made in bolivars, the local currency.

American Airlines Group Inc., which had been the largest carrier by capacity to Venezuela, took a $592 million special charge in 2015 to write down the value of its ticket sales in bolivars. Delta Air Lines Inc. has also written down the value of past Venezuelan sales in bolivars. It has cut flights dramatically since 2014.

Last year, Chile-based Latam Airlines Group SA also suspended its Caracas service from Brazil, Chile, and Peru; Grupo Aeromexico SAB ended flights between Venezuela and Mexico City; and Deutsche Lufthansa AG dropped its flights from Frankfurt. Air Canada left Caracas in March 2014, citing the civil unrest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33465548)



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Date: July 30th, 2017 8:11 PM
Author: fuchsia supple parlor

yeah libs what happened to your utopia?????

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33886922)



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Date: June 19th, 2017 6:45 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33596383)



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Date: July 30th, 2017 7:48 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

Venezuela Heads for Civil War

The regime has rifles and armored vehicles, but the people have numbers and anger.

Opposition protestors in Caracas, Venezuela, July 30.

Opposition protestors in Caracas, Venezuela, July 30. PHOTO: CHRISTIAN VERON/REUTERS

By Mary Anastasia O’Grady

July 30, 2017 4:29 p.m. ET

64 COMMENTS

Forget all you’ve heard about dialogue in Venezuela between the regime and the opposition. Hungry, hurting Venezuelans are done talking. The country is in the early stages of civil war. Sunday’s Cuban-managed electoral power play was the latest provocation.

In my column two weeks ago, “How Cuba Runs Venezuela,” I failed to mention Havana’s 2005 takeover of the Venezuelan office that issues national identity cards and passports. It was a Castro-intelligence coup, carried out with then-President Hugo Chávez’s permission. The move handed Havana the national Rolodex necessary to spy on Venezuelans and surreptitiously colonize the country. Islamic extremists received Venezuelan passports to give them false cover when crossing borders. Regime supporters got the papers they need to vote under more than one identity.

This is something to keep in mind when Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro reports the results of Sunday’s election for representatives to draft a new constitution. In polls, some 80% of Venezuelans oppose Mr. Maduro’s “constituent assembly.” But the opposition boycotted Sunday’s election because they know Cuba is running things, that voter rolls are corrupted, and that there is no transparency in the operation of electronic voting machines.

Opposition leaders in Caracas are still trying to use peaceful means to unseat Mr. Maduro. Last week they orchestrated an effective 48-hour national strike and on Friday another day of demonstrations.

But grass-roots faith and hope in a peaceful solution has been lost. One symptom of this desperation is the mass exodus under way. On Tuesday the Panam Post reported that “more than 26,000 people crossed the border into Colombia Monday, July 26, according to the National Director of Migration in [the Colombian city of] Cúcuta.”

Venezuelan applications for asylum in the U.S. were up 160% last year, making Venezuelans No. 1 among asylum seekers to the U.S. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were 27,000 Venezuelan asylum seekers world-wide in 2016. By mid-July this year there were already 50,000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33886816)



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Date: July 30th, 2017 8:30 PM
Author: Arousing ocher pit partner

Obama lifted travel sanctions against Cuba. Never forget.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33887033)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:08 PM
Author: Arousing ocher pit partner

this post isn't getting enough attention

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33899995)



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Date: July 30th, 2017 8:05 PM
Author: fuchsia supple parlor

yep this is what libs want for you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33886895)



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Date: July 31st, 2017 12:18 PM
Author: Pearl legend

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33890426)



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Date: July 31st, 2017 12:08 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33890359)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 9:59 PM
Author: provocative aqua useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33899929)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:06 PM
Author: comical range alpha

ahem, libs?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33899978)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:41 PM
Author: fuchsia supple parlor

yeah libs, ahem?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33900311)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:42 PM
Author: 180 Copper Fortuitous Meteor

Cr libs plz respond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33900319)



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Date: August 1st, 2017 10:45 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

yep, cr libs plz respond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33900351)



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Date: August 6th, 2017 1:27 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3543065&forum_id=2#33929642)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 7:55 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

Venezuela Is Starving Its People

The Maduro regime is using its control of food to stamp out protests.

President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores showing their electronic identity cards in Caracas, Venezuela, July 30.

President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores showing their electronic identity cards in Caracas, Venezuela, July 30. PHOTO: TV GRAB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

By Mary Anastasia O’Grady

Updated Nov. 19, 2017 4:20 p.m. ET

38 COMMENTS

There’s something vaguely uplifting about the house arrest of Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe last week. But it’s depressing to think that he hung onto power for 37 years, despite hyperinflation and famine in an African nation that was once a major food producer for the continent.

Ronald Reagan believed that “what is right will always eventually triumph,” but Zimbabwe is proof that it can take a long time. So too is Venezuela, which is experiencing its own Zimbabwean meltdown with no electoral way out.

Venezuelan shortages of everything are widely acknowledged. But there is less recognition that strongman Nicolás Maduro is using control of food to stamp out opposition. Hyperinflation has shriveled household budgets and the government has taken over food production and distribution. Most damning is evidence that access to government rations has become conditional on Maduro’s good favor.

The hardship is killing and deforming children. But Cuba, which runs the Maduro intelligence apparatus, also endorses it. Holding power trumps all.

Maduro took the helm in Venezuela after the March 2013 death of Hugo Chávez. Over 14 years Chávez had destroyed property rights and civil liberties and greased the monetary printing press. But $100 per barrel oil covered his multitude of sins.

Now the global crude price has been cut in half and the Chávez mess is exposed. The central bank’s net hard-currency reserves have fallen below $1 billion. Last week Miraflores Palace missed deadlines for interest payments on two sovereign debt issues and one bond issued by the national oil company PdVSA. Triple-digit inflation is spiraling.

Outside the country many are asking why the popular rebellion, which was significant in July, has gone quiet. The answer may be in the government’s skillful use of hunger as much as imprisonment to quash dissent.

Last week the newspaper El Nacional reported on a “food emergency forum” held by Amnesty International in Caracas. One participant was Maritza Landaeta, coordinator of the Caracas-based nonprofit Bengoa, which has worked to aid Venezuelans in food and nutritional needs since 2000. In describing the crisis, Ms. Landaeta shared the grim reality facing many mothers: “They say their children cry all day and they can only give them water. They are dying.”

Ms. Landaeta said some communities are experiencing undeniable “famine” and that in some parts of the country 50% of the children have left school because of hunger. According to the website El Estímulo Ms. Landaeta also reported that household surveys in the Baruta neighborhood of Caracas found that since the beginning of 2016 residents have lost, on average, more than 30 pounds. In September El Nacional reported that a study in 32 parishes in the states of Vargas, Miranda and Zulia by the Catholic aid organization Caritas Venezuela found that 14.5% of children under five are suffering either from moderate or severe malnutrition. This is no accident.

Inflation has stripped Venezuelans of purchasing power. The minimum monthly salary is now 456,507 bolivars, which on Nov. 15 was equal to about $8. A year ago the monthly minimum was 90,812 bolivars or about $21. Obviously imported food is unaffordable for most Venezuelan families.

The breakdown of domestic production is not new. But it has worsened in the past two years. Without hard currency, farm equipment cannot be serviced and seeds cannot be imported. Price controls make it hard for local producers to earn a profit.

The dictatorship increasingly controls what food there is. Dollars from oil exports go only to the state, which uses them to import. It also confiscates, at will, farm production and the output of agricultural processors. It plans to use the capital freed up by a restructuring of $3 billion in debt held by Moscow to buy Russian wheat. The government is forcing the use of debit and credit cards by withholding cash. This allows it to monitor all commerce and it saves on the costly importation of plane loads of new bills.

Venezuelans face risks if they complain. Last week the government announced that anyone who “incites hatred, discrimination or violence” against another, for their politics, faces 10-20 years in jail. The threat of jail, or worse, has already caused a retreat from the streets. This new law, which includes social media, will further chill speech.

Hunger has much the same effect because government rations are crucial for survival. Food supplied by the military-run Local Committee for Supply and Production—known by its Spanish initials CLAP—is not enough to live on. But it’s a subsidy that makes a big difference to families.

To receive the rations, Venezuelans must carry the Carnet de la Patria, a government-issued license only available to those approved by the regime. As Ms. Landaeta bravely explained, “Food is controlled and votes are bought, food is used as a political weapon and is at the center of the hurricane.”

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Date: February 22nd, 2018 1:40 PM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

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Venezuelans report big weight losses in 2017 as hunger hits

Vivian Sequera

3 MIN READ

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans reported losing on average 11 kilograms (24 lbs) in body weight last year and almost 90 percent now live in poverty, according to a new university study on the impact of a devastating economic crisis and food shortages.

People wait in a queue to buy food, on a sidewalk outside a supermarket in Caracas, Venezuela January 6, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello

The annual survey, published on Wednesday by three universities, is one of the most closely-followed assessments of Venezuelans’ well being amid a government information vacuum and shows a steady rise in poverty and hunger in recent years.

Over 60 percent of Venezuelans surveyed said that during the previous three months they had woken up hungry because they did not have enough money to buy food. About a quarter of the population was eating two or less meals a day, the study showed.

Last year, the three universities found that Venezuelans said they had lost an average of 8 kilograms during 2016. This time, the study’s dozen investigators surveyed 6,168 Venezuelans between the ages of 20 and 65 across the country of 30 million people.

After winning the presidency in 1999, leftist President Hugo Chavez was proud of improving Venezuela’s social indicators due to oil-fueled welfare policies. But his successor President Nicolas Maduro’s rule since 2013 has coincided with a deep recession, due to failed state-led economic policies and the plunge in global oil prices.

Wednesday’s study flagged Venezuelans’ deteriorating diets, which are deficient in vitamins and protein, as currency controls restrict food imports, hyperinflation eats into salaries, and people line up for hours to buy basics like flour.

“Income is being pulverized,” Maria Ponce, one of the study’s investigators, told a news conference at the Andres Bello Catholic University on Caracas’s outskirts.

People crowd at the gates of a supermarket as they wait to buy food in Caracas, Venezuela January 6, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello

“This disparity between the rise in prices and the population’s salaries is so generalized that there is practically not a single Venezuelan who is not poor,” she said.

The study calculated the poverty rate from 13 different indicators such as income and access to services. If the average of these indicators was above 25 percent, investigators defined a person as poor.

Prices in Venezuela rose 4,068 percent in the 12 months to the end of January, according to estimates by the country’s opposition-led National Assembly, broadly in line with independent economists’ figures.

The study showed that 87 percent of people in Venezuela, one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations back in the 1970s, were living in poverty last year, rising from 82 percent in 2016 and 48 percent in 2014.

The Venezuelan government has not released data on poverty since the first half of 2015 when the national statistics institute reported a poverty rate of 33 percent.

The government did not respond to a request for comments on the study, but its supporters often accuse academics of exaggerating data and being in league with the opposition.

Maduro blames the country’s problems on an economic war waged by the opposition and business leaders, with help from Washington.

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Date: July 3rd, 2018 11:00 AM
Author: Arousing ocher pit partner



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Date: July 3rd, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: vivacious jap church

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Date: January 24th, 2019 11:32 AM
Author: Grizzly stead nowag

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Date: February 13th, 2020 11:40 AM
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