FOX:
Venezuela’s food crisis has gotten so bad that people are apparently killing pink flamingos and other protected animals in order to stave off hunger.
While flamingo hunting is both illegal and uncommon in the South American nation, investigators from Zulia University in the northwestern Venezuelan city of Maracaibo have noted at least 20 cases of bird carcasses being discovered with their breasts and torsos removed.
And flamingos aren’t the only unusual animal to become a victim of Venezuela’s worsening food crisis. Remains of everything from dogs and cats to donkeys and even giant anteaters have been found in garbage bags at city dumps around the country.
“Sometimes we only find the animal’s heads, guts and legs. We used to see this very little in the past, but this practice is now out of control and on the rise,” Robert Linares, a Maracaibo waste disposal worker, told the Miami Herald. Linares added he recently found on the street the remains of a dog that had been skinned and dismembered.
The once-wealthy oil producing nation has fallen on hard times since Nicolás Maduro took power following the death of socialist leader Hugo Chávez in 2013. more
Boy – crooked, incompetent politicians and their socialism sure are great.
With Colonel Sanders type capitalism, you get fried chicken.
With Bernie Sanders type socialism, you get fajitas de flamingo.
I hear that the legs are to die for.
So the Left’s Socialism is ultimately a threat to ecosystems.
Oh, the irony.
@aleon
I haven’t ever had flamingo, well there was that Spanish dancer once.
Peacock and peahen are delicious.
Nicholas Maduro denies there’s any food shortage in his socialistic paradise–primarily because he hasn’t yet missed a meal. Now that Fidel is literally on the ash heap of history, I wonder if Raoul has the stomach to host another vagrant.
You see that, pussyhats!? The One World, We Are the World, Communisty needs you! Quick, chums, to the soylent booths!
That’s what FlamingO had in mind for us.
“Venezuela calling Señor Bernie Sanders! “Venezuela calling Señor Bernie Sanders! We need you to come be our next Socialist Savior!”
So…where ARE all the lefties and socialists? You helped FU*K IT UP! Now, fix it!
[crickets]
Question: If you eat all the anteaters will you then be overrun by ants? Will ants then become people eaters?
Leave the flamingos and anteaters for later, amigos.
Politicians surely have a higher fat content and better mouth feel, and you can very easily rationalize eating them because they aren’t really human beings.
Yummmmm ! Anteater .
Certainly the Peoples Paradise of Cuba will send all their spare food to help Venezuela?
Oh, they already have.
BBQ’ed anteater is actually pretty good.
Sean Penn! Sean Penn! Your homeland is calling!
In a socialist utopia the elite eat steak and fresh vegetables and the people get the bird.
If Willie can put on a Farm Aid concert for capitalist farmers in the US, Why aren’t the socialists in Hollywood doing a Commie Aid concert for socialists in Venezuela?
Perfect opportunity for the Clinton Foundation to help Venezuela like they did Haiti.
Where are all the lefty celebrities trying to save them?
I blame Nicolás Maduro’s grandparents.
Bill Whittle nailed it a couple years ago when he forecast that we would all find our selves sitting in the dark around a few burning tires roasting rats on a spit if we didn’t get our shit together. Venezuela is there!
Geeeeeee, the news media isn’t praising (or even mentioning) this socialist paradise like they did in the past. Could it because this is what socialism ultimately turns into? Very progressive society in Venezuela.
Send that walking buffet, Eman Ahmed to feed the masses. It’s a Win-Win. 🙂
I hear Flamingos taste somewhat between a Spotted Owl and Bald Eagle. But the anteater tastes like chicken. As far as burros go, where do you think the term, “burritos,” comes from.
Socialists would want the Donner Party to be USDA inspected prior to their journey.
Send bernie sanders down there, he can fix it!!!
Someone needs to interview Sean Penn about all this.
Like, really question him, in depth, in the light of what’s actually happening there. “Tucker-ized”
Would love to see him squirm, but the odds are in favor of only B.S. coming from him.
Harry Belafonte too! Forgot about that ass-wipe.