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Inside The Hell Of ‘Communist Heaven’: Robert Hardman On The Collapse Of Venezuela | Weasel Zippers

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Inside The Hell Of ‘Communist Heaven’: Robert Hardman On The Collapse Of Venezuela



Chickens coming home to roost.

Via Daily Mail:

Jose Moncon was on the way home from his school for the mentally disabled, clutching nothing more threatening than his colouring book, when a demonstration blocked the road ahead and forced him to take a detour.
Moments later, a police snatch squad coming the other way scooped him up and put him in prison for unspecified crimes against the state.
He is severely epileptic and has the mental age of a ten-year-old. But because Jose is 21 and classed as an adult, he shares an airless cell with 18 other adult men, many of them hardened criminals. As Venezuela is jostling for top spot in the world homicide league, there are plenty of those around here.
Jose’s mother Maria, 44, is distraught as I meet her outside the terrifying Soviet-style ‘Palace of Justice’ in Maracay, a garrison town 60 miles from the capital, Caracas. It is more than a week since her terrified son was taken and his lawyer says the police have no idea how to treat his epileptic fits.[…]
Yet things are changing here — and fast. In recent days, the U.S. and much of the free world have recognised the country’s new young opposition leader, Juan Guaido, as Venezuela’s legitimate interim head of state.
The U.S. — the main importer of Venezuelan oil — has now imposed a ban on all payments to the state-owned oil company, thus depriving the Maduro regime of 80 per cent of its income.
On top of that, the Bank of England is refusing to return £1 billion of gold bars currently in its vaults, saying Maduro is not their rightful owner. The dictator must now turn to the drug cartels for cash.
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Inside the hell of 'communist heaven': Corpses dug up for jewellery, children jailed and a gangster regime that has looted billions. Read this searing dispatch from a Venezuela on the brink of revolution

By Robert Hardman for the Daily Mail
Published: 18:49 EST, 1 February 2019 | Updated: 03:07 EST, 2 February 2019
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Jose Moncon was on the way home from his school for the mentally disabled, clutching nothing more threatening than his colouring book, when a demonstration blocked the road ahead and forced him to take a detour.
Moments later, a police snatch squad coming the other way scooped him up and put him in prison for unspecified crimes against the state.
He is severely epileptic and has the mental age of a ten-year-old. But because Jose is 21 and classed as an adult, he shares an airless cell with 18 other adult men, many of them hardened criminals. As Venezuela is jostling for top spot in the world homicide league, there are plenty of those around here.

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President Nicolas Maduro is clinging to power in Venezuala as opposition against his socialist regime increases as a result of the nation's economic collapse

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President Maduro, pictured addressing troops at Libertador Air Base in Maracay on January 29, has lost the support of people who were loyal to his predecessor Hugo Chavez

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Jose’s mother Maria, 44, is distraught as I meet her outside the terrifying Soviet-style ‘Palace of Justice’ in Maracay, a garrison town 60 miles from the capital, Caracas. It is more than a week since her terrified son was taken and his lawyer says the police have no idea how to treat his epileptic fits.

With her is Rosanna Paz, another mother frantic with worry. Her daughter Ana Paula, 16, was returning from the gym when a snatch squad grabbed her off the street. A week on, Ana Paula is in jail, waiting to hear what crimes she is supposed to have committed.
‘She’s in her last year of high school. She’s never been in any sort of trouble,’ says Rosanna, who had been so proud when Ana Paula was chosen to organise this year’s school prom. Now she has a criminal record for life.
Human rights lawyers here call it ‘human hunting’. They know of more than 75 children aged between 12 and 16 who have been arrested in the past week alone, though there are thought to be many more.
They are a fraction of the total number of people detained for allegedly protesting against a brutal kleptocracy clinging ruthlessly to power as its authority, like its stolen wealth, crumbles by the day.
Most of the free world has finally decided it is time to topple Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. Yet a few unreconstructed neo-Trots, including much of Britain’s hard Left, still cling to the myth that Maduro’s narco-gangster regime is some sort of socialist utopia. Only yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn was calling for an end to all outside intervention. Venezuela, he said, simply needs ‘dialogue’.
As far as apologists like Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell are concerned, Jose and Ana Paula are not innocent children. They’re part of a huge CIA conspiracy orchestrated by Donald Trump and American oil suits. Throw away the key, comrades!
Yet things are changing here — and fast. In recent days, the U.S. and much of the free world have recognised the country’s new young opposition leader, Juan Guaido, as Venezuela’s legitimate interim head of state.
The U.S. — the main importer of Venezuelan oil — has now imposed a ban on all payments to the state-owned oil company, thus depriving the Maduro regime of 80 per cent of its income.
On top of that, the Bank of England is refusing to return £1 billion of gold bars currently in its vaults, saying Maduro is not their rightful owner. The dictator must now turn to the drug cartels for cash.
So might this be the end of this tragic country’s 20-year experiment with ‘Chavismo’, the bonkers socialist economics of Maduro’s late predecessor, Hugo Chavez?

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He was at the airbase to witness a military exercise to show he still has the loyalty of his army

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The U.S. — the main importer of Venezuelan oil — has now imposed a ban on all payments to the state-owned oil company, thus depriving the Maduro regime of 80 per cent of its income

We may have a clearer picture this weekend as Venezuela steels itself for mass demonstrations. But like any cornered animal, Maduro is now at his most dangerous. Reprisals could be bloody.
I have spent the past week in a country where graves are routinely ransacked for a corpse’s jewellery; where nurses must choose which premature baby gets the only functioning incubator and which must die; where 10 per cent of the population have fled over the borders with just the clothes on their back; where presidential cronies have looted billions of U.S. dollars from the economy; where inflation is set to hit ten million per cent this year; where parliament has been sidelined by a puppet assembly; where children are arrested on the whim of a Stalinist commissar with a grudge — and all this while sitting on the world’s largest untapped oil reserves.
Petrol is cheaper than water here, but most people can’t afford a car and the average weekly wage is £1.50 — barely enough for a couple of eggs.
I meet a group of cowed but angry residents of El Junquito, one of the poorest slum districts or barrios in Caracas. The capital is surrounded by these shanty cities, clinging to near-vertical hillsides amid unrelenting squalor.
I ask them what they would say to Corbynista supporters of the Maduro regime. ‘These people are just playing politics with our poverty,’ says Omaira, 27, a mother of two, as she shows me a grotesque mobile phone image of a local teenager shot dead by the National Guard during last week’s protests.
We are joined by two of her neighbours, Jose, 21, and Jesus, 19. Both have a hunted look — the two men took part in the recent protests and live in fear of being denounced by the collectivos, the regime spies who permeate every community. Yet there is a palpable spirit of revolution in the air. ‘We feel it is now or never,’ says Jesus.

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The latest turmoil began with last year’s presidential elections. Maduro won by a landslide — although millions boycotted the poll

The latest turmoil began with last year’s presidential elections. Maduro won by a landslide — although millions boycotted the poll.
Many nations — including, crucially, almost every other South American state — rejected the result. When the new presidential term of office began on January 10, most of the world ignored Maduro’s inauguration ceremony.
Opposition politicians invoked the Venezuelan constitution. It states that, in the absence of a legitimate president, the speaker of the national parliament becomes acting head of state. Step forward the current incumbent, Juan Guaido, an earnest 35-year-old former engineer and social democrat MP.
Standing in a city square, he duly proclaimed himself acting president before disappearing on the back of the motorbike that has been at his side ever since. He was swiftly endorsed by the U.S., Canada and most of South America.
Many European nations, including the UK, have given Maduro until tomorrow to announce fresh elections or they will follow suit.
Needless to say, Maduro has angrily denounced this upstart, pointing to all those honest countries that have endorsed him, namely Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba and Turkey, plus terror movements including Hezbollah and Hamas. Sinn Fein, it should be noted, proudly sent a delegation to his inauguration.

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Many European nations, including the UK, have given Maduro until tomorrow to announce fresh elections or they will follow suit and endorse the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president

When Guaido called for demonstrations against the regime last week, Maduro’s response was brutal. We can expect more of the same today at marches across the country. Most embassies have repatriated all but essential staff. Foreign journalists are being arrested.
No one seriously believes Maduro’s promise of a new ‘Vietnam’ against the ‘Yankee’ imperialists, any more than they expect Donald Trump to invade. But those with cars are filling their tanks and those without are pouring Molotov cocktails.
Violent protest has been part of Venezuelan life for years, but now it has spread from the city centre to those slums that once adored Chavez and Maduro.
The daily struggle to exist here defies belief. Water and electricity come and go at random. In the countryside, people have had neither for months. Banknotes are almost worthless. Last year alone, Maduro lopped five zeros off Venezuela’s currency, the bolivar, in a vain attempt to stabilise prices.
Yet it is so often the small things that tell the big picture. On my last visit here, I was struck by the dismal scenes in Caracas’s zoo, where many animals had been eaten by the locals. One survivor was a lone elephant with a huge weeping sore. I was going to look her up this week, until I heard she starved to death last summer.

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No one seriously believes Maduro’s promise of a new ‘Vietnam’ against the ‘Yankee’ imperialists, any more than they expect Donald Trump to invade. But those with cars are filling their tanks and those without are pouring Molotov cocktails

The abiding image from this visit will be one of the city’s main cemeteries. Almost every grave has been torn open in the quest for bodies buried with jewellery (a skull can also fetch a few bolivars from followers of a voodoo cult).
One tomb is daubed with a furious message in red paint: ‘Cursed be those who dig out our dead. I will kill the one I catch.’ The lid of the tomb has been smashed open regardless.
My guide urges me to leave. The cemetery is overlooked by a famously violent barrio from which gangs prey on isolated mourners.
His own mother, Josefina, was attacked last year while visiting her father’s grave. A robber demanded her wedding ring. When it wouldn’t budge, he tried to bite off her finger until his saliva miraculously loosened the ring.
It is the stuff of horror films — but everything about Venezuela is surreal, even getting here. In the boom days, you could fly from Caracas to Paris by Concorde. These days, the few airlines still operating all stop in neighbouring countries to change crew. Cabin staff refuse to stay overnight in Venezuela, as it is too dangerous.
It’s not great for passenger morale to see all your flight attendants abandon ship in this way (and there is no one to complain to when your luggage vanishes, as mine did).

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What next? It all hinges on the military. Hugo Chavez was a soldier. Portly 56-year-old Maduro, however, is an ex-bus driver. For now, the armed forces are on his side. He has made his senior generals dollar millionaires. But how long will the troops endure meagre pay and rations?

I am keen to track down Juan Guaido, the man who claims he can sort all this out. Understandably, he is hard to pin down. On Thursday, police raided his house (he wasn’t there), while Maduro has frozen his assets and banned him from getting on a plane.
I find him making a surprise visit to a hospital, where medical staff have given him a white coat covered with handwritten messages — ‘Save Our Nation’ and the like.
He seems almost bashful. Charismatic he is not. But he is friendly and clearly brave.
I introduce myself and he smiles broadly at the mention of the UK and shakes my hand.
‘I just had an amiable conversation with your Foreign Secretary,’ he says, adding his thanks to the British people. And with that, he jumps on the motorbike and is off via a side road, avoiding the riot police at the main gate.
What next? It all hinges on the military. Hugo Chavez was a soldier. Portly 56-year-old Maduro, however, is an ex-bus driver. For now, the armed forces are on his side. He has made his senior generals dollar millionaires. But how long will the troops endure meagre pay and rations?
I drop in at the offices of Alfredo Romero’s law firm. Educated at Harvard and the London School of Economics, he is a law professor and director of Foro Penal, the charity that defends political prisoners. Last weekend, so many detainees packed the main justice building in Caracas, he was in court until 3am and emerged to find a wheel missing from his car.
Over the years, Romero, 50, has helped defend more than 14,000 victims of ‘Chavismo’ but says there has been a major change in recent days. ‘The police are now breaking into homes to arrest people and almost all of them are from the poorest areas,’ he says. ‘The other big change is that they are detaining children.’
Romero says he has no time for ideology. ‘I am not Left or Right. It’s just about natural justice.’ By rights, he should be a darling of global bien pensant society — an award-winning and genuine human rights lawyer (not some huckster chasing British Army veterans).

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Juan Guaido, pictured at a rally in Caracas on January 26, has to keep details of his movements confidential as he is likely to be arrested following a raid by police this week on his house

Yet to the British Left, he and his ilk are in cahoots with evil Trump. Does he care? He laughs. ‘They are just ignorant hypocrites.’
I hear the same thing from one of the country’s best-known opposition figures still at large. ‘It’s very sad that Left-wing politicians don’t understand the magnitude of our problems,’ says Maria Corina Machado, an MP who has been subject to a travel ban for the past five years. She has been attacked many times and once had her nose broken in five places by a Maduro crony inside the parliamentary chamber.
She believes this week’s events have been a game-changer. ‘The international coalition is getting broader by the day and this is no ordinary dictatorship. There is no ideology,’ she says. ‘It’s a criminal state and when a criminal state runs out of money, it collapses.’
Few expect change to be swift. The likeliest scenario, say Western analysts, is that moderate Chavismo elements will begin furtive talks with the opposition and cracks will start to appear — then Western governments stand ready to bombard the country not with weapons but with humanitarian aid.
Venezuela is not an Iraq or Libya, where the demise of the strong man allowed anarchy to fill the power vacuum. It thrived as a democracy before and can do so again — with our support.
Just don’t expect Her Majesty’s Opposition to help.
For nothing, surely, proves the moral inadequacy of our hard Left as eloquently as its bovine insistence that we should stand back and leave Maduro and his fraudsters to plunder what is left of their ruined state.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Venezuela.html

The Joys Of Socialism: Venezuelans Are Looting Corpses For Jewelry And Bones



"This is a lawless land, there is no respect for anything here. God will punish those people that are doing this."

Tue, 04/09/2019 - 15:15
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Venezuelans, desperate to find anything of value in their country where the currency has collapsed and widespread political and economic chaos rules, are now targeting whatever commodity they can get their hands on: this includes jewelry and human bones, which desperate locals can then sell for a profit, according to the BBC.
The British network spoke to relatives of those who had family members at one cemetery, the Cementerio del Sur, who are now standing guard at their relatives tombs to keep looters away.
Eladio Bastida, whose wife is buried in the cemetery said: "I come here every week, or every two weeks. I keep watch. I worry I’ll arrive one day and she’ll be gone. When I buried her, you could just walk in here, but lately you can barely reach her grave, because every tomb has been opened and the remains taken out."



Looters are primarily looking for jewelry, gold teeth, and skeleton remains that can be sold for use in various rituals. Damage at cemeteries is so widespread that workers can't keep up with repairing graves. Even historical figures like novelist and former Venezuelan president Rómulo Gallegos have had their graves looted.
Bastida continued: "This is a lawless land, there is no respect for anything here. God will punish those people that are doing this."
One resident, Jorge Liscano, told the BBC he plans to exhume his relatives’ remains to keep them safe: “This is the result of social collapse, a lack of education, the loss of values in our homes and our institutions. In recent years, this country has only focused on politics. We have forgotten about the things that make us human.”
The crisis in Venezuela has escalated recently as the national electric grid has broken down and left residents without basic human needs. Managing the remains of the deceased continues to be a challenge in the country.

Reports from local morgues last year revealed exploding corpses due to a lack of effective refrigeration. Most corpses placed in morgues quickly enter what is known as the emphysematous phase of decomposition, where they can no longer contain the gases and putrid fluids accumulated inside and burst as a result.

And even the country's criminals are now seeking greener pastures:

Many morgues are also struggling to handle the sheer number of arriving dead bodies, many of whom have died as a result of violence or lack of basic medical care. A report from the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) published last December found that murder rates actually fell over the course of 2018 because violent criminals joined the millions of people fleeing the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis.

But why worry about the borders, right?
Meanwhile, it was just days ago that we reported on the "Zombie Apocalypse" that the country has become, sharing photos of Caracas, looking empty and desolate. A series of AP photographs presented Caracas as essentially becoming a ghost town after sunset, painting eerie scenes of the empty streets and stores.


When dusk turns to night, the AP reports, "the once-thriving metropolis empties under darkness" after recently "a string of devastating nationwide blackouts last month dramatized the decay." Horrifyingly for common Venezuelans, years of mismanagement under the Maduro government and externally imposed isolation along with biting US sanctions have further sent Venezuela's health care system into "utter collapse," a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report also finds.
The population has also witnessed a rapid resurgence of preventable deadly diseases. With near constant electricity shortages and sometime complete mass outages, once popular shops in upscale Caracas neighborhoods have struggled to stay open at all.



US officials have repeatedly blamed President Nicolas Ocasio-Cortez Maduro for overseeing a socialist system of vast corruption; however, Caracas officials have blamed a decade of US sanctions for exacerbating the suffering of ordinary citizens.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...elry-and-bones

This is what the DemonRats want to turn our country into.

All these illegals pouring over the border need to go home. Same culture, same lawlessness, committing crimes, no morals!

Cannibalism next? Socialism’s collapse of Venezuela now leading to citizens looting human corpses for anything that can be traded for food

Friday, April 12, 2019 by: Ethan Huff


(Natural News) Hoping to stumble upon something, anything, that might help them gain the upper hand amid the ongoing, socialism-induced collapse of their native land, a growing number of desperate Venezuelans is now resorting to looting dead people’s graves, new reports warn.

At Cementerio del Sur, for instance, the largest cemetery in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, most of the graves have already been dug up and ransacked. Folks are apparently stealing things like jewelry, gold teeth, and even dead people’s bones, which they’re then selling on the black market to others who use these remains in various religious rituals.
“Stolen bones sell for use in rituals of the cult-like religion, Santeria,” reports the United Kingdom’s BBC News. “Criminal gangs are also looking for gold teeth and valuable jewelry.”
Video footage captured by BBC News shows some of the devastating wreckage left in the wake of all this grave digging, revealing toppled tombstones, dirt piles scattered all over the place, and all-around mayhem.
“I come here every week, or every two weeks,” laments Eladio Bastida, whose now-deceased wife is one of the bodies currently buried at Cementerio del Sur, in Spanish to BBC News. “I keep watch. I worry I’ll arrive one day and she’ll be gone.”
“When I buried her, you could just walk in here,” he adds. “But lately you can barely reach her grave, because every tomb has been opened and the remains taken out.”
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“Lawlessness” now rules Venezuela, local man laments

Things used to be a whole lot different in Venezuela, back when society wasn’t collapsing, and people were more grounded in their moral values – as opposed to just grossed in the political happenings of the day.
Speaking from his heart, Bastida basically told reporters that it pains him to witness this continued decline – but he also says he’s confident that one day justice will be served.
“This is a lawless land. There is no respect for anything here,” Bastida laments. “God will punish those people that are doing this.”
“The damage is so widespread, cemetery workers say they are unable to stop it,” further reveals BBC News. “Even the tombs of historical figures have been broken into,” the news outlet adds, pointing to the grave of Romulo Gallegos, a revered Venezuelan novelist and former president, that was recently dug up and looted.
As for the country of Venezuela as a whole, things are hardly on the verge of improving anytime soon. Not only are cemeteries being destroyed left and right, but Venezuelans are repeatedly being left without power as a result of rolling blackouts, depriving them of basic services and sanitation.
While the Venezuelan government admitted back in 2016 that it has a major security problem on its hands as a result of this collapse, to which it responded by trying to increase police patrols, the situation is still much the same.
“The theft in this cemetery has reached such a point that some families even write the words, ‘this has been robbed,’ to prevent a repeat experience,” says BBC News correspondent Will Grant. “Grave robbing for gold teeth and bones with impunity. For the families affected, this is a metaphor for the country as a whole.”
A man named Jorge Liscano actually wants to exhume his relatives’ remains from one of the last intact tombs at Cementerio del Sur before thieves get the chance to ruin it along with all the others.
“This is the result of a social collapse, a lack of education, the loss of values in our homes and in our institutions,” Liscano is seen stating in a BBC News video report of the situation. “In recent years, this country has focused only on politics. We have forgotten about the things that make us human.”

Sources for this article include:
BBC.com
Breitbart.com
NaturalNews.com

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