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4/16/19
PACARAIMA, Brazil (Reuters) - Surrounded by vultures perched on trees awaiting their turn, Venezuelan migrants scrape out a living scavenging for metal, plastic, cardboard and food in a Brazilian border town’s rubbish dump. Trapped in a wasteland limbo, they barely make enough to feed their families and cannot afford a bus ticket to get away and find regular work in Brazilian cities to the south. They blame leftist President Nicolas Maduro for mismanaging their oil-producing nation’s economy and causing the deep crisis that has driven several million Venezuelans to emigrate across Latin America. “I left because I was dying of hunger. We are trying to get ahead looking through this rubbish. Every night I pray to God to take me out of here,” said Rosemary Tovar, a 23-year-old mother from Caracas. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled the political and economic upheaval in their country through Pacaraima, the only road crossing to Brazil, overloading social services and causing tension in the northern border state of Roraima. More than 40,000 Venezuelans have swollen the population of state capital Boa Vista by 11 percent, Mayor Tereza Surita told Reuters.
A dozen Venezuelans scramble to grab bags of rubbish that tumble from the Pacaraima trash truck twice a day. They then sift through the piles as fetid plumes of smoke rise from the smoldering landfill. Sometimes they scavenge at night using headlamps. “We are looking for copper and cans, and hopefully something valuable, even food,” said Astrid Prado, who is eight months pregnant. “My goal is to get out of here. Nobody wants to spend their life going through garbage.” Charly Sanchez, 42, arrived in Brazil a year ago and has not been able to get to Boa Vista to get his work papers so that he can find employment. “We live off this. We make enough to buy rice, maybe some sausage, but not enough to buy a ticket to Boa Vista,” he said. On a lucky day he said he had found a discarded cellphone, but not today. Some spaghetti, a small jar of sugar and a bit of cooking oil was Sanchez’s pickings for the day. Tovar criticized Maduro for denying that Venezuela is facing a humanitarian crisis. “He is so wrong. Look at us here in this dump,” she said. “If Maduro does not leave Venezuela, I will never return there.”
Venezuelan scavengers vie with vultures for Brazilian trash
Quite right. Maduro has literally turned Venezuela's economy into a stinking mess.
The poor of Brazil and Columbia also pick through garbage dumps to survive until, in the case of Brazil, they are driven off by the armed authorities. Notice the vultures too.
View attachment 67255354
From: As A Massive Garbage Dump Closes In Brazil, Trash-Pickers Face An Uncertain Future : Parallels : NPR
Poverty and desperation in South America are not limited to Venezuela alone. Nor is state sponsered violence against the state's own people. As bad as the Maduro regime is, it is far behind Brazil and Columbia in human rights abuses. Venezuelans must be the ones that change Venezuela for the better, not the foreign powers of America, Brazil and Columbia by cooperative economic, unconventional and often-threatened overt military action. Ironically the real vultures in this sad assault on the Venezuelan state are the foreign neo-liberals looking to tear off control of the rich oil production from the battered carcass of the Venezuelan state, bled by manifest destiny and pommelled by the Munroe Doctrine as per John Bolton's recent public statements.
And now the aggression is widening to engulf Cuba and Nicaragua too. The leviathan of the north will never be satisfied. It's time to burn the public buildings of Washington DC once again and I hope the American people are up to the job. Regime change is needed now in America far more than in Latin America and it's time that Mr. Trump, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Minuchen and Mr. Abrams should be removed from their offices and tried for attacking foreign states without Congressional authorisation and for contributing to crimes against humanity by destabilising already shaky states.
No Cheers for Trumpian America.
Evilroddy.
Are you actually making a "whataboutism" defense of starvation and ruin in Venezuela?
Jack Hays:
Not whataboutism at all. Columbia and Brazil are directly involved in this unconventional warfare led by the USA. . . .
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
"unconventional warfare led by the USA" -- There is no such thing in Venezuela.
Your post is mere whataboutism because you are defending the indefensible.
Take tips, leftists...its your future.
Jack Hays:
That's your style JH. Clip the quote to remove the jusitifying argument and then declare an opinion of yours as a fact. Have a nice day as you twist what others say in order to give false foundation to your opinions.
No cheers for you.
Evilroddy.
Who literally gives the first **** about Canada?Wow. Is that gonna happen in Canada and Sweden and New Zealand? I guess it's a good thing we're all enjoying life while we can, huh.
Better work over-time on The Wall. Walls plural, come to think. Put another ten feet on top, too.
Who literally gives the first **** about Canada?
What makes you think I would want a list of idiots that care about Canada? I care about the ****hole the idiot leftists in this country are creating by promoting idiotic social programs and flooding the streets with 78,000 homeless illegal immigrants a month.What do you want, a list of names?
The quote was clipped because the dishonesty of that which remained rendered the rest superfluous. There can be no justifying argument for a lie.
What makes you think I would want a list of idiots that care about Canada? I care about the ****hole the idiot leftists in this country are creating by promoting idiotic social programs and flooding the streets with 78,000 homeless illegal immigrants a month.
Canada? Not a blip on the ****ing radar.
Jack Hays:
Did you clip the quote? Yes you did. Did you excise the arguments to support the remanents of the quote you included? Yes you did.
Remove the factual basis for any argument and you can call anything a lie. That is one of the cornerstones of modern public relations and propaganda. Clearly you have learned this well in your time as an alleged employee of the CIA.
There is no lie. Venezuela is for the Venezuelans to fix. The foreign intervention is not wanted by the vast majority of Venezuelans including most of the ones who want to remove Maduro from office. Your own national security advisor has admitted that this is about getting access to Venezuelan oil for American and other investors (a claim that President Donald Trump is also reported to have made as reported by Andrew McCabe), has admitted that this is about attacking socialism everywhere in the Western Hemisphere, has admitted that the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well and that it is the justification for throttling Veneezuela and now beginning to move against Cuba and Nicaragua. They seem to have forgotten about Bolivia for the moment, but I'm sure that's just an oversight for now. Thus the verifiable facts strongly indicate that the motivations for this are neo-liberal greed and neo-conservative interventionism. It reminds me of the last days of the Salvadore Allende Regime in Chile when then President Richard Nixon said make Chile "scream" under economic pressure from the US before the bloody-minded general's took power and killed or disappeared thousands. There was no humanitarian intention in September 1973 with respect to Chile and there is no humanitarian intention in US-led regime change in Venezuela now.
So spin your lies, edit out the contradictory facts presented by others and declare falsehoods to be truths if you must. Others here on this forum are wise and savvy enough to look behind the curtain of deception and see the frightened, fraud-peddling little men who claim to be the wizards of all. His name is President Donald Trump. His name is Vice President Mike Pence. His name is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, His name National Security Advisor John Bolton. His name is Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliot Abrams. And I suspect his name is forum contributor Jack Hays too.
No cheers for you.
Evilroddy.
The lie was your claim of unconventional war led by the US. There is none. When you open with a lie I have no obligation to read further.
The poor of Brazil and Columbia also pick through garbage dumps to survive until, in the case of Brazil, they are driven off by the armed authorities. Notice the vultures too.
View attachment 67255354
From: As A Massive Garbage Dump Closes In Brazil, Trash-Pickers Face An Uncertain Future : Parallels : NPR
Poverty and desperation in South America are not limited to Venezuela alone. Nor is state sponsered violence against the state's own people. As bad as the Maduro regime is, it is far behind Brazil and Columbia in human rights abuses. Venezuelans must be the ones that change Venezuela for the better, not the foreign powers of America, Brazil and Columbia by cooperative economic, unconventional and often-threatened overt military action. Ironically the real vultures in this sad assault on the Venezuelan state are the foreign neo-liberals looking to tear off control of the rich oil production from the battered carcass of the Venezuelan state, bled by manifest destiny and pommelled by the Munroe Doctrine as per John Bolton's recent public statements.
And now the aggression is widening to engulf Cuba and Nicaragua too. The leviathan of the north will never be satisfied. It's time to burn the public buildings of Washington DC once again and I hope the American people are up to the job. Regime change is needed now in America far more than in Latin America and it's time that Mr. Trump, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Minuchen and Mr. Abrams should be removed from their offices and tried for attacking foreign states without Congressional authorisation and for contributing to crimes against humanity by destabilising already shaky states.
No Cheers for Trumpian America.
Evilroddy.
Jack Hays:
Did you clip the quote? Yes you did. Did you excise the arguments to support the remanents of the quote you included? Yes you did.
Remove the factual basis for any argument and you can call anything a lie. That is one of the cornerstones of modern public relations and propaganda. Clearly you have learned this well in your time as an alleged employee of the CIA.
There is no lie. Venezuela is for the Venezuelans to fix. The foreign intervention is not wanted by the vast majority of Venezuelans including most of the ones who want to remove Maduro from office. Your own national security advisor has admitted that this is about getting access to Venezuelan oil for American and other investors (a claim that President Donald Trump is also reported to have made as reported by Andrew McCabe), has admitted that this is about attacking socialism everywhere in the Western Hemisphere, has admitted that the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well and that it is the justification for throttling Veneezuela and now beginning to move against Cuba and Nicaragua. They seem to have forgotten about Bolivia for the moment, but I'm sure that's just an oversight for now. Thus the verifiable facts strongly indicate that the motivations for this are neo-liberal greed and neo-conservative interventionism. It reminds me of the last days of the Salvadore Allende Regime in Chile when then President Richard Nixon said make Chile "scream" under economic pressure from the US before the bloody-minded general's took power and killed or disappeared thousands. There was no humanitarian intention in September 1973 with respect to Chile and there is no humanitarian intention in US-led regime change in Venezuela now.
So spin your lies, edit out the contradictory facts presented by others and declare falsehoods to be truths if you must. Others here on this forum are wise and savvy enough to look behind the curtain of deception and see the frightened, fraud-peddling little men who claim to be the wizards of all. His name is President Donald Trump. His name is Vice President Mike Pence. His name is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, His name National Security Advisor John Bolton. His name is Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliot Abrams. And I suspect his name is forum contributor Jack Hays too.
No cheers for you.
Evilroddy.
Jack Hays:
https://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/421-maxwell.pdf
The Latin American Revolution (Part XXIII) | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Canada and the U.S. go digging for regime change in Venezuela | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Read appendix D of the US Army manual beginning on p.159 of the link below.
https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-05-130.pdf
Still no cheers for you.
Evilroddy.
You only wish your country could be a ****hole like Canada. Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, a dozen of liberal countries are putting your bumper-sticker pseudo-ideology in the shade. All you neo-cons get all giddy and triumphant about every bit of bad news out of Venezfrigginuela but when successful liberalism is pointed out to you it's "Who cares about that?"
Why do you care about Venezuela? Answer- you don't. Unless there's really bad news about it, then Venezuela is a powerful affirmation of neo-conservatism and becomes very important.
:lamo
Its comical that a steady stream of 'Canadians' cant wait to run to this site and talk abut us and I have to be honest, I dont see anyone here giving the first **** about your pathetic little ****ry.
And you ARE correct...I DONT much give a **** about Venezuela...not my zoo...not my monkees. I DO care that idiot leftists are desperately working to try to turn our country into ****holes like Venezuela. We already have huge problems in the leftist socialist Utopias like LA, San Fran, Portland, etc.
:lamo
Its comical that a steady stream of 'Canadians' cant wait to run to this site and talk abut us and I have to be honest, I dont see anyone here giving the first **** about your pathetic little ****ry.
And you ARE correct...I DONT much give a **** about Venezuela...not my zoo...not my monkees. I DO care that idiot leftists are desperately working to try to turn our country into ****holes like Venezuela. We already have huge problems in the leftist socialist Utopias like LA, San Fran, Portland, etc.
I care the moment they target us.You will care when those monkeys belong to Hezbollah and train in Venezuela to attack the USA. We either deal with terrorist threats where they live and train or we deal with them on US soil with the associated casualties. Furthermore, Venezuela is acting as a drug superhighway to the USA.
Corruption in Venezuela has created a cocaine super-highway to the US - CNN Video
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