Yahoo!:
By Vivian Sequera and Deisy Buitrago
CARACAS (Reuters) – Hundreds of Venezuelans queued up in miles-long lines to try to fill their cars with subsidized gasoline over the weekend, a week after President Nicolas Maduro launched a new dual-price system aimed at easing an acute fuel shortage.
Maduro on May 30 announced the new system in which motorists could purchase up to 120 liters (31.7 gallons) of gasoline at a heavily subsidized price of 5,000 bolivares (2.5 U.S. cents) per liter, and 50 U.S. cents per liter thereafter. Some 200 gas stations were designated to charge solely at the higher price.
That change effectively ended decades of heavy subsidies in Venezuela, an OPEC nation with the world’s largest crude reserves and where cheap fuel has long been considered a birthright of sorts. The new plan caused chaos and confusion at service stations across the country when it began on June 1.
While Venezuelans with resources can now wait in shorter lines at the stations tapped to charge higher prices, those seeking subsidized fuel, such as 42-year-old car mechanic Pedro Mujica, had no choice but to wait in seemingly endless lines.
“With what little I earn, I can’t afford to pay the higher price in dollars,” Mujica said early in the morning, some 13 hours after he arrived at a Caracas gas station in his 1991 two-door BMW car. more
The Venezuelan people need to pay more attention to who they are voting for.
The ones they’ve put in office don’t seem to be doing a very good job.
And this is what the liberals want for us.
Anon you think voting matters anymore in Venezuela? It’s now a dictatorship votes no longer count and if idiots in US don’t wake up we could head the same direction. Right now criminal protestors are making up the rules in Democrat controlled zones.
You can vote your way into socialism…
Too late now for any voting to make changes. Of course Chavez being a student of history, early on in his first term, he made owning weapons illegal…yaknow for safety(his).
So you’ve got a fucked population, metaphorically speaking, waiting in line for over 13 hours for a fill up knowing that voting is pointless and unarmed.
I believe at one time they had the best economy in S America and the 3rd or 4th best in the world. A real head scratcher that they voted for their own demise. I wonder if they had the wealthy kneeling, begging for forgiveness…
Now you know exactly what the UniParty wants for us.
Under socialism you do not get equality
You get sameness
The same high prices
The same shortages of necessities
The same poverty as your neighbors
The Bus Driver sure looks like he hasn’t missed many meals, meanwhile the disarmed and defenseless population are fighting over scraps out of dumpsters.
This is the utopia that the UN and Soros has in store for everybody.
Typical dictatorship:
1 bag of beans
1 bag of rice
1 gallon of gas
once a month.
That is why illegals would rather be poor HERE.
You can vote yer way into socialism… but you can’t vote yer way out of it!
Be careful what you wish for!
Today democRATs are threatening us with:
“Vote for us to destroy America or we will destroy America!”
Be careful what you vote for… or we will quickly find ourselves in a Venezuela with no way out!
…and yet there is still no revolution.
Yes, they took their guns. They didn’t take the military’s guns, tho. Take ’em from THEM.
…too spicy for your tastes? The people of India didn’t have guns under the British Raj. Are they still citizens of England?
..there are many paths to victory, but simply continuing to make your country work by being a compliant cog in it isn’t one of them. Maybe look into THIS guy’s suggestion…
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , “The Gulag Archipelago”
I wonder Maduro feels every night when he turns off the light and thinks on the fact that the only reason he’s alive are the Russian and Cuban security he has around him every day and what would happen if they were to leave. It can’t make for a restful sleep. Sooner or later a patriot with a long gun will reach out and touch him.
Lazlo The Elder
JUNE 9, 2020 AT 9:35 AM
“Under socialism you do not get equality
You get sameness
The same high prices
The same shortages of necessities
The same poverty as your neighbors”
…well, SOME folks do OK out of it, perhaps are “more equal than others”…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfQaT9zU0AArWuN.jpg
Word is that venezuela participated in seeding the riots.
We have a strong shell, but we’ve rotted from within.