Venezuela (tick tick tick...)

[LittleLebowski]

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/29/vene...rm-sector.html

The government of Venezuela has issued a decree that “effectively amounts to forced labor” in an attempt to fix a spiraling food crisis, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

A Venezuelan ministry last week announced Resolution No. 9855, which calls for the establishment of a “transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is “necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency,” and states that workers can be forcefully moved from their jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days.

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“transitory labor regime” in order to relaunch the agricultural and food sector. The decree says that the government must do what is “necessary to achieve strategic levels of self-sufficiency,”

You know you're up to your neck in a totalitarian regime when they start trotting out a certain dogmatic style of justifying their actions...

[Kyle Reese]

You know you're up to your neck in a totalitarian regime when they start trotting out a certain dogmatic style of justifying their actions...

Same as it ever was..... This latest proclamation from the Maduro regime reminds me of Khrushchev's failed Virgin Lands campaign.

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[ralph]

Some things never change..Communism is one of them...

[Kyle Reese]

Some things never change..Communism is one of them...

The "right" people haven't been in charge, I've been told.

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[FNFAN]

It should be heartwarming to the populace to be working shoulder to shoulder with their elected officials and heads of government agencies!

[ralph]

The "right" people haven't been in charge, I've been told.

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Yup, anytime you corner a commie and point out all the past failures of communism, The reply you get is almost robotic.. "It wasn't true communism" "They did'nt go far enough" " The right people weren't in charge" yeah, right..whatever.

ETA
IMO, communism is a system of death..step out of line far enough, and you either end up in front of a firing squad, or sent to a gulag, where the hope is that you'll be worked to death..if you do manage to survive, you'll come out a broken man, one who will do as he's told.. The fact we have about half the country pining to be commies, despite communism's known past history is something I can't grasp.. My only answer is that, yes, people are really that stupid..

[Kyle Reese]

Yup, anytime you corner a commie and point out all the past failures of communism, The reply you get is almost robotic.. "It wasn't true communism" "They did'nt go far enough" " The right people weren't in charge" yeah, right..whatever.

ETA
IMO, communism is a system of death..step out of line far enough, and you either end up in front of a firing squad, or sent to a gulag, where the hope is that you'll be worked to death..if you do manage to survive, you'll come out a broken man, one who will do as he's told.. The fact we have about half the country pining to be commies, despite communism's known past history is something I can't grasp.. My only answer is that, yes, people are really that stupid..

A good retort would be to tell them that they’re not smarter than Lenin or more ruthless than Stalin (or Mao, Pol Pot, Ceaucescu, etc).


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"Amateurs. Don't they know they've got to dress the part to be effective?"

[RevolverRob]

Hmmm, curious.
I wonder if there isn't an Intelligence Officer somewhere in the shadows of all this. "Don't worry Bro, anything goes wrong, I got your back on this. Me and the entire weight of the US Government will move heaven and earth to get you home".
And then his cell number was no longer in service.

Naah, never happen.

I told my wife, "If, IF, someone in the CIA is behind this, it's some rogue dude in the Argentinian office who is bored off his gourd."

This strikes me as pretty much just Oath Keeper'ish-type behavior. Where someone thought, "Fuck it, let's go cause a little ruckus."

Shame, people with those kinds of talents could do productive things with their time, than undertaking a poorly planned operation - https://www.freeburmarangers.org/