Venezuela Implements SERFDOM To Cope With Food Shortages
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Blake Neff
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5:10 PM 07/29/2016
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In a desperate effort to cope with worsening food shortages, the government of Venezuela has approved a new law that allows the government to force citizens into agricultural labor.
According to Vice News, the law, approved by President Nicholas Maduro’s government last week, empowers the government to conscript both public and private-sector workers to join agricultural work teams for 60-day periods. The conscription can be renewed repeatedly, meaning the government could potentially force workers to permanently become agricultural workers with no ability to return to their old jobs.
Officially, the government will still pay these workers their old work salaries, creating a system comparable to medieval serfdom. But with Venezuela in the grip of hyperinflation, it’s not clear what these workers will be able to buy with their salaries.
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http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/29/venezuela-implements-serfdom-to-cope-with-food-shortages/#ixzz4FtQAQHGW
