Socialist Presidente Maduro to Venezuelans: No expensive desserts for you!

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Let them NOT eat cake: Venezuelan bakers face the president in ‘bread war’

An organization that represents Venezuela’s baking industry is pushing back against President Nicolas Maduro’s crackdown on bakeries and bakers, whom he has blamed for the country’s bread shortage.

Earlier this week Maduro charged that bakers are waging a “bread war” by illegally using government-imported flour to make expensive sweet breads and croissants. Fevipan, the Federation of the Bakery Industry, responded on Twitter Wednesday that “Currently 80% of bakeries have inventories at zero, the remaining 20% have received 10% of their monthly consumption.”

The bread shortage is just one symptom of the record-high inflation rates and deepening recession that have driven Venezuela into the worst economic crisis in its history. For more than a year, Maduro has imposed a national state of emergency, which has included government rationing of food and other basic necessities...

...Two bakeries were seized and four individuals arrested in Caracas this week for alleged misuse of government-imported flour to make specialty items like croissants, sweet bread and brownies.

Venezuela’s socialist price control policies mandate that 90 percent of imported wheat be used to make white loaves or French bread.

In addition to ordering official inspections of bakeries across the country to ensure compliance with this rule, Maduro also moved to cut down on massive bread lines by banning people from standing in line for bread.

“Those behind the ‘bread war’ are going to pay,” Maduro declared earlier in the week...

This probably sounds like paradise to Bernie Sanders:

 

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Abortion in Venezuela - Wikipedia

Looks like they may have benefited from allowing leftist parasites to kill their offspring.

 

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Abortion in Venezuela - Wikipedia

Looks like they may have benefited from allowing leftist parasites to kill their offspring.

Would liberals support such a policy here in America? lol

 

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Inside the deadly world of Venezuela's illegal mines

El Callao (Venezuela) (AFP) - Barefoot and shirtless in the cavernous belly of an illegal gold mine, Ender doesn't flinch when a piece of rock falls through the darkness and breaks the silence.

Working in the dangerous and violent underworld of illegal mining in eastern Venezuela, the skinny teenager is used to taking his life in his hands every day.

The narrow mine shaft is filled with puddled water and the smell of gases, and the handmade wood supports staving off a collapse look precarious at best.

But Ender Moreno is unfazed. At 18 years old, he has already been doing this job for eight years.

"I'm not afraid," he said as he climbed through the pitch black, his headlamp lighting the way through the hazardous maze 30 meters (100 feet) underground.

"I'll probably do this till I die."

The inside of the mine is no scarier than the outside.

There is a bloody mafia war raging for control of the unlicensed, artisanal gold mines in the Venezuelan state of Bolivar. Miners regularly turn up dead, their bodies mutilated or riddled with bullets.

Shootouts with assault rifles are common currency in the region.

Two weeks ago, three young men Ender knew were killed in his neighborhood of El Callao.

The day before, he had been dancing with them at the annual carnival celebrations in the city, the cradle of a gold rush that started in 1870 and has recently intensified.

"They were miners, but they started running around with gangsters," he said.

Ten months ago, his boss at the mine was killed. The miners say it is because he refused to let mobsters take over the business....

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In a country where a crushing economic crisis has fueled an epidemic of violent crime, such mines are "primarily in mafia hands," he said.

At the nearby Nacupay gold mine, workers dig the earth from the bed of a contaminated river as others pour mercury into pans of extracted sediment.

The open-pit mine is known as one of the most violent and polluting in the region.

Few people are willing to talk openly about the "vaccines," or extortion money, that miners and shopkeepers have to pay their mafia overlords in this lawless area.

"It's like a parallel government," said one miner, who asked AFP not to use his name for fear of reprisals.

"This place belongs to one group. The others have to keep their hands off it. Each group has its territory," said miner Argenis Tarazona.

"Whoever breaks the rules, whoever robs, they kill him or beat him up," added Tarazona, 47.

He left his five children three years ago to try his luck as a gold miner, after finding he could no longer support them on his salary as an industrial mechanic.

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans from across the country have flocked to this region as President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government has struggled with a three-year recession, spiraling inflation and food shortages....

Is this what leftists want for America?

 

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Let them NOT eat cake: Venezuelan bakers face the president in ‘bread war’

An organization that represents Venezuela’s baking industry is pushing back against President Nicolas Maduro’s crackdown on bakeries and bakers, whom he has blamed for the country’s bread shortage.

Earlier this week Maduro charged that bakers are waging a “bread war” by illegally using government-imported flour to make expensive sweet breads and croissants. Fevipan, the Federation of the Bakery Industry, responded on Twitter Wednesday that “Currently 80% of bakeries have inventories at zero, the remaining 20% have received 10% of their monthly consumption.”

The bread shortage is just one symptom of the record-high inflation rates and deepening recession that have driven Venezuela into the worst economic crisis in its history. For more than a year, Maduro has imposed a national state of emergency, which has included government rationing of food and other basic necessities...

...Two bakeries were seized and four individuals arrested in Caracas this week for alleged misuse of government-imported flour to make specialty items like croissants, sweet bread and brownies.

Venezuela’s socialist price control policies mandate that 90 percent of imported wheat be used to make white loaves or French bread.

In addition to ordering official inspections of bakeries across the country to ensure compliance with this rule, Maduro also moved to cut down on massive bread lines by banning people from standing in line for bread.

“Those behind the ‘bread war’ are going to pay,” Maduro declared earlier in the week...

This probably sounds like paradise to Bernie Sanders:

Well, they can always turn to green jello with fruit pieces.

 

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